Sid Meier’s Civilization III Announced

Sid Meier’s Civilization III is now on the board. At a press conference conducted at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), two of the entertainment software industry’s biggest players, powerhouse publisher Hasbro Interactive and legendary game developer FIRAXIS Games announced a strategic partnership to bring the next generation of Civilization strategy games to life in Sid Meier’s Civilization III CD-ROM.

The conference reunited industry legend Sid Meier and his FIRAXIS Games partners, President and CEO Jeff Briggs, and Vice President of Software Development Brian Reynolds with their long-time friend and former MicroProse colleague Tony Parks, now Vice President of Research and Development at Hasbro Interactive. The event marked the coming together of the original team that worked on the groundbreaking Sid Meier’s Civilization and Sid Meier’s Civilization II interactive games – touted by many as two of the best games ever created in the history of the entertainment software industry.