From: breynolds@firaxis.com (Brian Reynolds)
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Subject: Sid Meier's Civilization III -- announced!
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Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 19:56:21 GMT
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Hi All,

Civ fans everywhere will, I'm sure, be interested to learn that we
have just announced (at E3 last night) that we will be developing Sid
Meier's Civilization III as one of our upcoming products, to be
published under the Microprose label by Hasbro Interactive!

This is a brand-spanking new development, so I'm not ready to go into
loads of detail just yet, but I do plan to stay in touch on the
newsgroups during the development of the game, because I think every
Civ fan has an idea in his/her head about what Civ 3 should be. We'll
do a "call for features" once we have a serious prototype we like.

To answer some of the most obvious and burning questions-- (1) yes,
many of the important strong points of Alpha Centauri will (where
appropriate) be incorporated into Civ3, so don't worry your little
(big?) heads about that. :-)  (2) Yes, we're still working on Alpha
Centauri upgrades, expansions, etc. In fact, as Sid announced last
night, we see Alpha Centauri and the Civ 1-2-3 series as two members
of a broader Sid Meier "Sweep of Time" trilogy we want to create;
wherein your actions and success in one game can affect your situation
in the next. We'll talk about the third, yet-to-be-announced, member
of the trilogy later. (3) yes, we will be working with both
Hasbro/Microprose and EA as publishers of our various products. (4)
yes, we have some really exciting ideas about how to make Civ 3 the
best turn-based strategy game  yet.

Brian Reynolds
VP Software Development
FIRAXIS Games