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Sid Meier's Civilization III -- announced!

Posted by Hemos on from the mmm-more-then-alpha-centauri dept.

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?

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  1. what more can they do? by Foaf · · Score: 4
    I thought Civ2 was pretty well rounded except for the lack of multi-player. If they incorporate all the good stuff from the old Civs + Alpha Centauri (never played it but I hear it's great) the game should be awesome. But what other features could there be?

    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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  2. Here's the scoop. by DHartung · · Score: 5

    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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  3. Re:CIV 3 vs CTP by sunking · · Score: 3
    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....

    Two Words: Sid Meier.

    I, and many other informed gamers, will buy anything that guy puts on the market. I've never been let down by him, and I serriously doubt I ever will.

    Even Colonization, his worst by my account, is better than most other games I've played.

    -sam