2001 "Best Strategy Game" award, which ultimately went to Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns. The editors wrote, "Civilization III was another fantastic candidate. Many feel it's the best game so far in the series and is the new benchmark for turn-based strategy games." Expansions Two expansion sets have been published for Sid Meier's Civilization III: Play the World in October 2002, and Conquests in November 2003. Play the World added multiplayer capabilities, eight new civilizations and some new units to the original release. Play the World was followed-up by Conquests, which offers nine more historical scenarios, ranging from Mesopotamia to WWII in the Pacific. Many of these scenarios have resources, improvements, wonders, music, and even government types that are specific to the scenario, especially the Mesoamerican and Sengoku Japan campaigns. The stand-alone version is Civilization III: Complete Edition, which includes the two expansions and several patches. (This version came after Civilization III: Gold Edition and Civilization III: Game of the Year Edition.) Board game In 2002, Eagle Games published the Sid Meier's Civilization board game, created by Glenn Dover. The game was based on Civilization III and mirrored many of the video game's concepts and gameplay components. References External links Official website Old official website (archived) Civilization III on MobyGames Civilization III on the Civ Fanatics website 2001 video games Infogrames games 4X video games Alpha Centauri in fiction 3 Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln Firaxis Games games Interactive Achievement Award winners Classic Mac OS games MacOS games Video games with expansion packs Top-down video games Turn-based strategy video games Windows games Sid Meier games Video games developed in the United States Video games with isometric graphics Play-by-email video games Video games using procedural generation Historical simulation games D.I.C.E. Award for Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year winners MacSoft games Multiplayer and single-player video games