[Eclipsetech]

I don't think that there is really a problem with civ3 per se. Civ 3 is a really good game but Civ 1 was better. Why? Because of the feeling you got the first time you played it. Same feeling as with x-com, master of orion 1 and even the first time I played seIV. It's just kind of the whole discovery process when you don't know what will happen. In civ I took the French capital and thought it was so cool when their empire split and half stayed french and half became Mongol. Civ 2 and 3 are good but there is just no sense of discovery. Better graphics, smoother play, better combat algorithms but that is not what made the first one great for alot of us. This is the reason that no sequel ever lives up to the original imho. Civ 2 gave you the ability to edit the game files like seIV and thats what kept it from being more "been there done that" for me. Thats just my 2 cents anyway.