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i dont think thats a fair rating system. C3 falls into a brutally over-done genre. it should be measured against games of the same type, such as civ 1, 2, call to power, SMAC, etc, etc, etc, ad nausium. while you can compare features and game play with those other titles, you also begin to realize that the biggest failing of C3, no matter how good it is, is that its basically more of the same.

that entire line needs a genre-breaking title, and they have not had one since the original civ.

in my oppinion, the same is true of RTS games, from dune-2 all the way through C&C-25 (or whatever the hell they are up to now). the 3D space RTS games (homeworld and friends) were neat for a while, until you realize that the gameplay is EXACTLY the same. harvest, build, kill, repeat.

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