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Sid Meier's Civilization III -- announced!
Daniel Boese writes "From: breynolds@firaxis.com (Brian Reynolds)
... be interested to learn that we have just announced (at E3 last night) that we will be developing Sid Meier's Civilization III as one of our upcoming products.
This is a brand-spanking new development, so I'm not ready to go into loads of detail just yet, but I do plan to stay in touch on the newsgroups during the development of the game, because I think every Civ fan has an idea in his/her head about what Civ 3 should be. We'll do a "call for features" once we have a serious prototype we like.
Firaxis Web Site " Jeez-this is just what I need. Alpha Centauri has siphoned more then enough time away. Ah well-who needs spare time?
Throw in an Ultima Online-like server, multiple planets arranged in systems/galaxies, and real-time gameplay. Think cross-section of Civilization, Elite, and Ultima Online. Possibilities are endless! Too bad it probably isn't going to end up like that, though.
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Life-extending genetic treatment is the basis of two projects (wonders) in AC and much of the background story. So that's been done. AC ended with you becoming the consciousness of Planet. That gives you a couple BILLION years to play with the next scenario.
Who cares? Civ 3 is out. Cool enough. Run it on NT and be happy.
Have you seen or heard of Metalknights?
Can be found at www.metalknights.com
The game doesn't have much in term of diplomacy but military strategy is a non-stop action.
Regard
The Quake series sux. Doom is the only FPS in my book.
You get charged per Mb? How does that work? In the UK we have to pay for phone-line access (1p/min), but there are loads of free ISP's.
This hero worship of Sid Meier is silly. He has made flops before. Colonization is one of them. I have never seen a game that took micro-management to such an extreme. Very, very boring. I think that Civ:CTP is about as good as CIV can get. Sid Meier will have to radically change the game to make it any better.
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Alpha Centauri rules. I've always wanted to start off where I left off at the end of Civ2 after getting "Future Tech xx". ;-) Kinda gets boring after there's nothing new to discover and you've conquered Earth 300 times.
I believe their partnership with Hasbro Interactive will allow them to use the name "Civilization." If I remember correctly, didn't Hasbro recenty buy Avalon Hill which published the original Civ board game? Or am I completely wrong?
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I doubt it will be open sourced...
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So, is this going to be available for GNU/Linux or not?
Posted by DrZaius_III:
actually, yes they did buy avalon hill (makers of Advanced Civilization), but Micoroprose owns the rights to the name because they purchased the company that made the original Civilization.
Microprose has close ties with Sid Mier and, if memory serves, has acted as publisher for firaxis in the past.
Maybe that should be something that you can solve through technology. Perhaps a Life-extending genetic or cellular treatment of some sort. That would be cool and still stay within the bounds of the other games.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
When you have really great game designers, just when you think a game can't possibly get any better, it gets much better. I think that with so many people giving their input and ideas, and with Firaxis doing the work, it will improve substantially.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
No, your right.:)
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I was reading an interview with Sid Meier sometime last year (don't remember where) and they had a list of the games he's done. Now my method of buying commercial games (as opposed to shareware) is: I won't buy a game until I've had a chance to play it on someone else's computer or something and I know that it will last me quite a while. Well, looking over the list of games Sid Meier has done, I discovered that with the exception of Dune 2, every game (non-shareware) that I have purchased in the past was done by Sid Meier. Oh yeah, and Starflight -- he didn't do that one either. But yeah; if it has Sid Meier's name on it, you know it'll have good gameplay. Course, I never played Colonization, but still, Sid Meier is a pretty safe bet.
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I've created an icon using The GIMP to use with GNOME (but I see no reason why you can't use it in KDE) for Civ: CTP.
Here's where to get it. It's a 48 x 48 PNG file - 5.6k
So that Civilization - Call to Power box that turned up on my door-step the other day isn't version 3?
Ah well, who cares - it's working flawlessy. I love it! And now Myth II is going to be ported to Linux!
Now must be the "Renaissance" of the GNU/Linux world!
What more is there to total world or galactic domination?
I'd like to see a Civ world that lives on the net - we all get an island or a piece of land and get to develop it, trade with others etc. Sort of like a cross between CivNet and a MUD
Just my 2 cents
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Wasn't Civ II miles above Civ?
Nope.
/El Niño
So are yours. So are mine. Sheesh.
How much better could CIV 3 be than CTP, really? CTP is already a great game and has multi-player ability.
I couldnt imagine them making it good enough to convince people to buy it. I think most people that would have bought it already would have purchased CIV CTP....
can anyone clarify this? Has Firaxis bought the rights back?
Is Firaxis looking to hire a programmer? ;-)
Thank you.
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None of the quakes after the first offered much. I got Q1 to run on a 486 (even tho the box says it required a p75).
Gotta have that crazy 3d card to run anything new these days. I tried Q2 on my pII 400 256mb ram and it still wasn't as good as Q1 on a p233 32mb ram (no 3d card in either). *shrug*
I remember a friend of mine telling me how nice the walls and scenery looked in the newer fps games (u, q[2,3],...]). Big deal. If I played quake and spent time looking at the walls I would be fragged in a heartbeat. I only see motion when I play fps games anyway.
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They must have finally realized how much Alpha Centauri sucks so they're finally going back to what they're good at -- Civilization.
Sid Meier's Firaxis Games recently made a deal to develop Civ III for Hasbro-owned Microprose, as explained in this Gamecente r story.
In other words, Microprose owns the trademark, but hired the original developer and his company to do the new version.
Also, the complicated rights situation for the Civilization games is explained (more or less) in this Microprose press release. In a nutshell:
* Microprose keeps the rights to Civilization, Civ, and related trademarks.
* Microprose gets Avalon Hill's non-PC-game rights as well.
* Activision gets to publish Civilization: CTP under license from Microprose.
So, this will (apparently) be the last game from Activision to use the Civilization name. Rumors had it that one company would get "Civilization" and the other "Civ", but the final three-way settlement (monetary amounts undisclosed) put that to rest. There is only one company who owns Civilization, and that is Microprose. Anybody else is just licensing the trademark from them.
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Hey, whats about every node (or virtual) representing an own Planet with spetial environment?! First all at the Planet begin at the same time, with emerging technology you can discover and trade and so forth with all the others on the net!
Man, that would be funny!
ah, I'm looking forward to this. I believe I have bought 4 different incarnations of civilization; civ, civnet, civ2, and just monday civ2 gold (civ 2 + expansion + multiplayer)... civ2 just reemerged as my biggest time waster (overtaking Quake3). the deal with there being so many civs was that everybody had a small portion of rights to the name except sid himself, who really deserved all of it - anyway, I'm happy about this. i expect with all the civ clones running around out there now he will do more than just polish the original civ. ah. i feel good now :)
Well, if you ask me, I think that (no matter how bad it is) it is probably going to get somewhere along the lines of a 99% review in PC gamer (Just look at the trend, Civ 2 97%, Alpha Centauri 98%). What really bugs me about this is that Civ 2 wasn't bad, but it wasn't great, and Alpha Centauri seemed just an updated version of Civ 2 really. So giving it the best rating that PC Gamer has given anything is really agrivating (they should save the top ratings for revolutionary games: ex. Descent, its old, but it was one of the very first games with true-ish 3D effects). Well, thanks for hearing me out. . .
When I was told that Civ3 was out and it was great I suddenly thought... WOW! Civ3.. Since i played Civ alot and other Sid Meyers games.
I always thought Alpha Century was Civ3 until i noticed CTP. And now they're releasing the real "Civ3" ?
Sid Meyers is my idol in strategy games and I follow him. Doesnt matter what Activision is doing, Sid Meyers owns Civilization in my point of view.
If this game will be out soon, im there!
When I was told that Civ3 was out and it was great I suddenly thought... WOW! Civ3.. Since i played Civ alot and other Sid Meyers games.
I always thought Alpha Century was Civ3 until i noticed CTP. And now they're releasing the real "Civ3" ?
Sid Meyers is my idol in strategy games and I follow him. Doesnt matter what Activision is doing, Sid Meyers owns Civilization in my point of view.
If this game will be out soon, im there!