Sure you aren't mistaking a new Civ game for the newest Civ3 expansion? Civ3: Conquests. You know the one that makes Civ3 do everything it should have done with the first release? The one that makes Civ3: PTW actually work in an MP environment, and includes it so if you bought that one you just wasted a nice wad of cash and they want you to do it again so you can get the game that you thought you were getting when you bought Civ3 when it first came out.
I love the most recent trend that seems to be coming out where you call really big patches expansion packs and sell them.
Next:
MOO3: Return of the Orions *sarcasm - not real*
Since Atari won't fund us for another patch we will release it in the guise of an expansion pack!
Atari... where do I know that name... MOO3... and... Civ3!
Do I see a pattern.