Civilization III: Play the World

"The biggest problems with putting an online multiplayer feature into a turn-based strategy game is that you end up forcing other players to wait while completing your turn. To help rectify this, Civilization III: Play the World enables you to complete other tasks while waiting for a player to complete their turn... a typical turn-based strategy match can last well over a few sessions. To give some alternative, Firaxis has added new mechanisms for winning a multiplayer match."

"As was customary with previous Civilization expansions, there are also numerous new scenarios, including many fan-created ones. These new scenarios are simply icing on the cake for what is shaping up to be an amply stocked add-on pack."

"Hopefully, Play the World's wretched online performance can be fixed in a patch."

"...the Play the World expansion offers enough new ways to play Civilization III that all but the most casual players won't want to miss out."

"Play the World adds some nice single-player features, but the multiplayer leaves much to be desired."