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Summary: Lüv-Håt
Review: I love this game. I hate this game. I love that I hate this game. Civ II is the sort of game that smacks you around if you don't exploit fast enough and rewards you greatly if you manage to spread like a plague in NYC. Rules: keep your people happy, well fed, defended, and ever-expanding. Irrigate everything, cover the landscape in roads. Build a city every 5 world units. Use coastal locations, develop your government to monarcy first, isolate and destroy lesser cultures. Start colonies on every continent you can, and have them expand like a giant amoeba. Destroy anything that is in your way, isolate your continents for your use alone.This game requires a keypad that you can press in 8 directions easily, so powerbook users must have a keypad they can trust if they don't want to use the bleeding imbedded keys. All in all, one of the greatest games ever made, Mac or peecee.
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Summary: Absolutely Terrible Game!
Review: I loved Civ I and II. I would play these games for hours. I bought this game even though I heard it had received mixed reviews. As soon as I started this game I knew that I would hate it. Sure the graphics look great, but who cares if the gameplay is so bad that you don't even want to play for more than thirty minutes (which is nowhere near enough time to complete a game). I found the game boring, and the interface confusing. Often a city would get done producing a unit and I wouldn't realize it for a few turns! Also, the units are animated, which meens you cannot customize the game like you could in Civ II. If you want a real sequal to Civ II go buy Alpha Centauri.
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Summary: Highly addicitve fun!
Review: I never played the original version of "Civilization," but I've been drawn into building great empires and waging epic wars in this strategy game. I have found myself spending hundreds of hours building my cities, and advancing my empire's technological knowledge in a grand pursuit of world dominatio. You can establish roads, trade routes, and negotiate treaties with rival empires. Great fun for those who enjoy a good challenge in their strategy games!
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Summary: Good, but not as good as Call to Power
Review: I was a little disappointed with this game after playing both it ans Civilization: Call to Power. CTP had a crisper feel to it and went further into the future. Still, I enjoyed it overall.
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Summary: OOO, AHHH, WOW!
Review: I've read the customer reviews of this game, and maybe they have a point about needing a good processor, but with the computer we have, the game is absolutely awesome. It takes Civ games to a new level. This is an extremely time consuming game, so if you don't have a lot of extra time, don't play it. If you don't have a lot to do, though, the game is simply wonderful. It allows you to colonize space, create water cities, and create many new things previously unallowed by civ. games. Of the civ games I have so far, this is absolutely the best!!!!
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Summary: OOO, AHHH, WOW!
Review: I've read the customer reviews of this game, and maybe they have a point about needing a good processor, but with the computer we have, the game is absolutely awesome. It takes Civ games to a new level. This is an extremely time consuming game, so if you don't have a lot of extra time, don't play it. If you don't have a lot to do, though, the game is simply wonderful. It allows you to colonize space, create water cities, and create many new things previously unallowed by civ. games. Of the civ games I have so far, this is absolutely the best!!!!
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Summary: Awsome
Review: It was so cool the first time I played it was justa great experiance. Although I wish they had more units.
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Summary: It's just unplayable
Review: It's a great idea gone horribly wrong: up the complexity of Civilization and Civ II, put in more units, more types of government, and watch the Civ addicts go into paroxysms of ecstasy. Hollow laugh. Instead, I got a game that took a full minute to one move just one piece, even with the 48M of RAM that the makers recommend. It would take me hours to finish one full turn in the later stages of the game, and I just don't have years to waste with this mess. With every agonizing minute, I was able to think about what I was missing away from the computer. Fresh air. Swimming. Human contact in coffee houses. Let's face it, when a computer game can't keep your interest sustained, when it actively drives you to shut the contraption off and get a life, it's just not a very good computer game. Stick with the livelier, faster Civ II.
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Summary: Great!
Review: It's good. Especially the multiplayer part. My friends and I help each other fight opponents while researching and building an army. After we're all powerful we fight each other. It's a great game!
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Summary: The Gold is Tarnished
Review: Let's get this straight right off the bat: Civilization II is one of the best games ever spawned. I bought the Gold edition because I expected my enjoyment of the game to be expanded by the new stuff. I also assumed they would have fixed the minor-but very annoying-bugs from the original game. I was wrong. The "advantages" of the Gold edition are the following: --Multiplayer options --New scenarios --Expanded options for creating your own maps and scenarios. I have not tried the multiplayer options. They may well be wonderful. Please note, however, that a "multiplayer patch" for Civ II is available on the net. For FREE. Some of the new scenarios are decent. Many are annoying. However, they were not worth the extra money. The map editor is identical to its original. The expanded scenario-building options are nice, but beware: it will take HOURS to properly prepare a scenario. The bugs, which are obvious and glaring, were never fixed. Here are the bugs I noticed: --Units which you send to a location more than 1 square away (via the shift-click method) will sometimes go the opposite direction. Other times they will simply move back and forth between two spots. --The game will occasionally crash. Save often. If you already own Civ II, don't bother to upgrade to Civ Gold. If you do not own this game, I would suggest saving the $10 and buying the original.
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