quote: We've developed a brand new graphics engine that will bring the Civ world alive like never before and we continue to work on an interface that will make Civ III the most intuitive to play in the series.

The above is by Sid Meier.

-Yes, I know that Sid is the gaming god, but I do not quite trust this; they are making a new interface- Civ II's was fine. and new graphics- I have already voiced my opinions about this.

how many titles are collecting dust at my house because the game was destroyed due to fancy graphics. to hell with game play as long as that unit looks good.

CTP and TOT are very poor games (the graphics killed both of them IMHO).

the tank looks like a humanitarian aid convoy

the phalanx' shield is covered with a silly face, I hate it

the units themselves look OK, but the details, the details

I agree with the comment on the rifleman. I bet he looks like Mel Gibson (in the movie "the Patriot") when he turns his head. The hat somehow looks too 18th-century alike. Here's an idea I got when reading the beginning of the thread were someone spoke about colonial troops. Maybe it's possible to make a difference between "home"- and "expeditionary"-troops, resp. in a kind of "union"like uniform, and I would like the "redcoat with whitehelmet" uniform.

Panzer (in dutch "pantser", though everybody here uses the word tank for a tank) means first and foremost (in dutch too) armour. In german the word panzer has become synonymous for (english)tank. The "official" designation for tank in german was/is Panzerkampfwagen ("armoured battlecar"), a lot of other armoured vehicles were given such functional names too, but they were never refered to as "panzer".

And I too don't like the ambulancelook of the tank.

Take 3 ordinary pieces of art, add the words "Civilization III" and presto- hysteria!

Just to drive the point home, those pics could be in play, as long you don't mind displaying only a 10 by 6 tile portion of your map!

(The picture part of the phalanx is 65 pixels wide x 125 high, and the tank is 105 wide b 85 high.)

-Why is the phalanx wairing pyjamas and why is that face on his shield sticking his tongue out at me?

quote: Originally posted by Darkknight on 01-03-2001 10:53 PM Why can't they draw proper swastikas and not red crosses??

Why not the red, white, blue and orange circle ??
Why not the red star of the red army, the thing looks pretty much like a t-34 tank.
But certainly not swastikas, that's too much honour for those dammed nazi's (and it isn't historically correct either !!, german tanks had white/black crosses on them).
It'd better be something neutral, but not with red crosses, that gives a strange association for a tank.

quote: Originally posted by Darkknight on 01-03-2001 10:41 PM Ug a ooga ook uk wogga blag zoog!!!!!

hmm... that reminds me of an ICQ message I once received from Provost Harrison:

ogga ogga ogg ogg

quote: Originally posted by Darkknight on 01-03-2001 10:41 PM Ug a ooga ook uk wogga blag zoog!!!!!

hmm... that reminds me of an ICQ message I once received from Provost Harrison:

ogga ogga ogg ogg

Being able to change the units in Civ2 using a simple paint program was brilliant. I'm not an artist, but even I have spent hours tweaking my units -- downloading new ones from the hundreds available online, and modifying them. This is one reason why Civ 2 is still thriving, 5 years after release (what other game has been played so much so long?). It won't be possible for me (and many others) to do this in 3D, and certainly I can't begin to create animations.

Anyway, maybe I'm swimming against the tide, but I'd be perfectly happy if Civ 3 used Civ 2 graphics, and just deepened the AI, diplomacy, and rules. I know that's not the road they're taking, but I'd love to see a 2D option at least.