A tile can only be worked if it is one of the twenty tiles surrounding a city. Each tile is made of a particular type of terrain that determines, among other things, how much food, production, and trade it produces when 'worked'. Cities must be built a minimum of one tile away from each other, i.e., no two cities may touch. Land tiles can contain a transportation improvement ( road or railroad) and a land improvement ( farm or mine) or a city.

Each city, terrain improvement, and unit is located in a specific tile, and each tile can host any number of units. The game map is made up of square tiles on a grid. The player must balance a good infrastructure, resources, diplomatic and trading skills, technological advancement, city and empire management, culture, and military power to succeed. The player must construct and improve cities, train military and non-military units, improve terrain, research technologies, build Wonders of the World, make war or peace with neighboring civilizations, and so on. Unlike the original game, Civilization III was not designed by Sid Meier, but by Jeff Briggs, a game designer, and Soren Johnson, a game programmer.Ĭivilization III, like the other Civilization games, entails building an empire, from the ground up, beginning in 4,000 BC and continuing slightly beyond the modern day. It was released in 2001, and followed by Civilization IV. Sid Meier's Civilization III is the third installment of the Sid Meier's Civilization turn-based strategy video game series.

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