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Number of Reviews: This game has got me back interested interested in the Civ series, after a long year of waiting, the make or break game in the series came out, and it made it. I first got interested in the series when I bought Civ 2. This game was awsome (the best strategy game of the century). It wasn't like anything I had ever seen before, with nearly unliminted and addictive game play, and the coolest scenarios I have ever played. When I heard that Civ 3 was coming out I got excited. Once I bought the game, I was initialy unenthused with some of the features, the bugs, the lack of any scenarios, and the lack of a cheat menu (was the best thing to cut down a learning curve). Once I got the patch I got excited again, with bugs fixed and I got an aquired taste (the cheating problem went away once I got past the learning curve). I still had a problem with the no scenarios, but I downloaded some online that were alright but noting compaired to the other games. Then came a disaster that could have ended the series, Play the World. This game compounded the problems with Civ 3, including adding a laundry list of new bugs, and a silly multiplayer that was seriously lacking playableity. They did make some gameplay adjustments but all together it hurt the game more then it helped it. With the anouncements of Conquests, Civ 3 would either become the greatist game of this century, or end the series. It was the former. They totaly reamped game play and added in a ton of new features, and made the multiplayer very good. But I was most happy to see the biggest thing Civ 3 was lacking, scenarios. Not just 2 like civ 2 but 9. And these wern't just regular average joe scenarios, these where true historic scenarios done in perfect detail with the objectives shifting from map to map. You can play (the most memerable scenario in Civ 2) World war 2 on a gigantic map totaly realistic with riged deplomicy and focusing completly on military. Or you can play the constantly shifting alliences in the napolianic wars that consentrate on depolmacy. Or even the famed rule changes in the Mesoamerican Scenario. All in all this expansion not only elivates Civ 3 to the status of Civ2, it easly serpases it as best scenario game ever.