Fun and serious game.
This game is fun, because a person can play the game anyway he or she wants. Also a person’s strategy might have to change depending on the placement of their settlements on every new map. My favorite situation is when I can take a corner of a continent and go for a land grab till I run into other civilizations. The micromanagement is easy, but a person still needs to have a plan and pay attention to detail. The Civlopedia has come in handy a few times and I’m glad is on the game.
The chieftain or easiest level is no cake walk for new people. During one of my first maps I had it on the easiest and I got my butt kicked for not playing smart. For most games a person can afford to make mistakes on the easy level and survive with ease, but I had to start a new map when the computer got through my outer defensives when I had a weak inner defense. Civilizations III is the first time I sat down and played it with seriousness from when I played a bit of the first civilization game, and right away I could tell that the strategy in the games are the same but with the newer games with better graphics. I haven’t played Civilizations IV yet but I bet that it is going to be the same as the other three but with better graphics.