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Summary: Classic old gamer
Review: This game is the best game I have ever played. I recommend this game to anyone who cares more about strategy than great graphic fight simulations. I compare this game to the great legacy of the Zelda series. Since this is an older game it might not get the looks that the newer games get, but it will be worth the money. If you made it far enough to read this review, get the game!
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Summary: Worth the bucks.
Review: When I played Civilization I, it started to wreck havok on my system stability, especially when running other programs -- even after a full reboot. I used this version of Civ II on my same computer, and I don't have any of those problems. If I play it straight for two or three hours, I have to do a reboot due to a need to refresh memory. In that sense, we need a revision on the programming level -- memory is not automatically refreshed.As far as the game is concerned, it is worth the money. The computer proves to be a challenging opponent (to me anyway, which is all that counts since I am the paying customer). The game gets 5 stars as far as playing the game goes, and it gets 4 stars in regards to the needs for programming streamlining. (Any company programmers reading this?)
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Summary: 11 Hours Changed My Life
Review: In 1992 on the original Sid Meier's Civilization came out, I played it for 11 hours. And lost. And then, I played it again for days. I've played other games since then, but none rival Civ in its mastery of presenting the complex as if it were simple, and its ability to combine seemingly unrelated functions (granary = increased food storage = faster population growth = larger cities and more cities = granary =...). Who knew that granaries built in 2000BC could make or break your existence in 1950AD? If you are interested in the grandaddy of all civilization-building games, you have to get CivII. Not experiencing Civilization and calling yourself a strategy-game buff is like a sci-fi fanatic never reading Tolkien. Its inexcusable.
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Summary: Holy *#$%! The sun's coming up!
Review: The biggest problem with Sid Meier's games is the addiction factor. I'm not a big arcade gamer, but I can stay up all night long trying to prompt my civilization to grow just a bit faster than the neighbors. A socially useful application of this game is to discuss preferred strategies for winning. With proper calibration, this could turn into a standard psychological test ... Basics: Start with some stone-age settlers. Settle down. Build cities, improve cities, create units (military, settlers, trade), advance civilization until you beat everybody else to Alpha Centauri. It sounds so mundane, so banal. It is. But if your brain is wired wrong, it's more addicting than heroin, valium, and nicotine put together. I've had to delete the installation on several occasions because of failing health and job performance!
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Summary: The best game evet
Review: Do not buy this game, once you bought it you will totally loose track of time, you will loose your job, your family, your pet. But who cares, you can now use all your time playing CIV2 the best game ever. This game has stolen my high school years, most of my professionel life and my dreams. I often dream of how to smash those damn Romans or the evil Vikings, this is just to show how time consuming this game is. The moment you start playing you are hooked, and the game will always be a part of you and the way you act. I have tried newer games, with more fancy graphics but it's just not the same. CIV2 will just always be game number one. The game I will always play, to the day when the evil doctors decide to remove my brain from my computers hardwareinterface. Don't stop yourself for doing something really stupid just buy the game. Regards
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Summary: Have to get it!
Review: When I first played this game, it took me only a short time to figure out how it all works. That's what's great about this game, it's so simple! There are tips and guides that help you if you need it. Also, there are so many things you can control. You start out in a few thousand B.C. with your simple warriors and triremes. Than as you go through the ages, you control stuff like Marines, Battleships and even Nuclear Bombs. Even more, you can choose what civilization you want to be, (Romans, Celts, Zulus). Each civilization has it's own unique path you can take, and each civilization interacts differently with other civilizations. One of the neatest parts is that you can discover discoveries such as The Great Wall (to protect your cities) or The Manhatten Project (to build Nuclear Bombs). You can check up on your adviseries to see how your cities are comparing with other tribes and you can set up meetings with other tribes to nagociate or trade secrets. The secrets are things such as Masonary or Bridge Building that you can discover. So, by ending this review, I want to say that this is one of the best 2D (eg. WarCraft) kinds of games you can get!
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Summary: THIS GAME IS COOL
Review: The fun of this game is in this simplicity. It's so simple, yet people have trouble understanding it. I bought this game 2 years ago, and got hooked. My fave part is the cheat menu where you can change the king and queen's names. It's a giggle making them into people I know. The part I don't like is how you have to wait while your rivals move and they have a million units, and it's confusing if you have 8 players. I also like the high councils and the meetings with your rivals. All in all, this game is good. I like it a lot.
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Summary: The game to end all games
Review: I laughed when I was reading the other reviews for this game. People saying how they lost all track of time and found themselves having spent hours playing the game. I am one of those people. I'm addicted to Civilization. There I said it. I played Civilization on the SNES, and Civ 2 on computer and the playstation. I play it over and over. I get new games, play them for a while, then come back to this one. It is a game for the thinking man, with endless varieties of strategy.
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Summary: A truly classic game
Review: Newer strategy titles may have more advanced graphics, and the newer versions of this advance on it, but for sheer depth of gameplay and attention to detail this is unsurpassed at this price. With everything in 6000 years of a civilization at yoiur disposal, you'll be addicted for ages if you can get into it. The great thing here is that tehre are so many different gameplay elements and they all intertwine so well. The scientific developmetn sees your tribe evolve from the early stages, where the only weapons you can have are chariots, phalanxes and the like, and all you can build in your cities are things like granaries and basic barracks, through to the latter stages where you can build dominant Howitzers and Nuclear Weapons, or begin constructing spaceships. The chain of scientific advances, as you decide which developments your society needs, the international diplomacy (sometimes the pen is mightier than the sword) and money management all add elements to the game. The way every single minute decision has so many consequences is great, like the butterfly phenomenon. The advisors also add some good light relief as well as useful advice. Overall this type of game is much more engrossing than the COmmand & Conquer type titles. Here you can think through every move in as much detail as you like. The whole thing has much more depth, and I'd advise players used to those types of games to check this out as well. A true classic. Now I've reviewed this I feel like digging it out and playing it.
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Summary: My all-time favorite game!
Review: This game came out a number of years ago, and I am still playing it. It's amazing to me the countless hours I have spent playing a game I have won (and lost) countless times! If you are new to strategy games and you want to try a game out, buy this one. You can start off at an easy level and when you're ready for more challenges, start a new game with a higher level of difficulty. It has an easy user interface and is very intuitive. But beware of one thing - you will lose countless hours playing this game! It's addictive!
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