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Challenging? Oh Yes.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 26 / 26
Date: December 31, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Civilization 2 is one of the best, if not the best strategy game out there on the market today. In this game you choose one of many different civilizations to be (ex. Persians, Romans). You are then made ruler of that civilization. The game starts in 4000B.C. and works its way all the way to the 21st century. Through that period of time you are faced with many decisions. Should I make peace with my neighbors or should I crush them with various military units? In order to win the game you must eliminate all of the other civilizations with various methods. Also during the course of the game you are faced with building decisions. As your scientists discover more and more, you are faced with options such as building wonders of the world and up grading your military units. You must make the right decisions or else your cities will start to corrupt. The only bad things about this game is how time consuming it is and how much space it uses on your memory card (10 blocks). All in all this is a must buy for all you Civilization fans and anybody looking for a great game.

An extraordinary Civilization-building experience!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: November 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game works at SO MANY LEVELS! You start out with a stone age tribe and attempt to move them into the 20th century. There are a LOT of problems along the way, the biggest being the presence of OTHER civilizations, controlled by the computer. You've got to concentrate on a variety of areas, among them your civilization's technical prowess, military strength, expansion of cities, and diplomatic skill. Too much attention to technical growth could leave you militarily weak, but concentration on armies weakens your efforts to advance scientifically, and that could lead to your have a huge army of spearmen facing an enemy armed with tanks! It's very tough to maintain that perfect balance! Making numerous alliances with other civilizations is a good idea, but they can often be pushy in demanding you share your scientific advances, and that, too, can lessen your chances to maintain superiority in the crucial areas of this game!

The really fun thing about Civilization II is that you don't HAVE to fight anybody if you don't want to. The victory conditions can either be MILITARY (conquer everybody) or SCIENTIFIC (be the first civilization to launch a space mission to Alpha-Centari), so you have the option of either being a military genius/tyrant or world diplomat! A very challenging & enjoyable game!

Very fun and interesting!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game, you can play at any difficulty level you want and you can choose to be peaceful or warlike, both have advantages. It does take a long time if you want to go all the way to 2020 AD but you can play to just conquer the world which doesn't take too long. You can also determine the size of the world depending on how much you want to explore. And the video segments with your advisors are hilarious. Definately one of the best games I have played.

Definitely the best game I own

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game at a used store (I always try to reduce my $$outflow). In retrospect I would have spent three times the new price to have it. I almost never play any other game any more and I am having a hard time thinking about buying any new games because I just don't think that anything else will stack up to this game. True the graphics are not the best, but honestly, in a strategy game like this the pictures are just not as important as replay value and the challenge. Every world is new, every set of neighbors is new. Every level of play is more challenging. When I beat a game and get 100% in it I don't play it again. Civ II is never beaten and you have never gotten 100%.

This game is Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The most fun, most addictive game I've ever played. It does get slow at higher levels, but it's worth it when you can destroy everyone.

Not like any other game on the playstation!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Civilization II is not for everybody. Those who live for the shoot-em-ups and 3-D fighting genre games should stay away from this one! However, for the rest of us, this game is a must buy! There is no ther game like it on the Playstation! Running a city from 4000 BC to 2020 AD is no easy task. At first, the game seems unmanageable. The instruction book is large and written in tiny print. It comes with a "helpful" poster that looks more like a high-school Physics flow chart or something. There are so many menus and options once you play the game it seems overwhelming. Don't be discouraged! This is an on-the-job-training type game. Load it and just start playing and learn by trial and error. I played for 4 or 5 hours before I really began to feel like I had a handle on things. (Hint: make sure you irriagate and build roads near your cities as soon as you can!) The game flow is decent but does get long as the game progresses. The advisor function is helpful at first but gets repetitive quickly. The Beginner Tutorial is a must for your first game; it slows things down a bit but you'll learn alot from this feature! You can choose to run your society as a Despotism or you can have a Democracy (or 6 other forms of government!). You can tax your citizens heads off and give them plenty of luxuries or tax them heavily and build a powerful and mean army. You can build great Wonders of the World or concentrate more on scientific discoveries. You would be amazed how engrossing this gets! Coupled with trying to stave off barbaric hoards, going to war with other societies and trying to keep the peace with your allies, you will lose plenty of sleep! Nothing is perfect however, and this game does have some flaws. As the game progresses, the map will become cluttered and it will be hard to distinguish between units. Some of the wording on the menus is a little fuzzy and hard to read at times. Also, there are so many options in this game, sometimes it seems overwhelming and you wish the game would take control of SOMETHING! The background music also tends to get old quick. These drawbacks, however, are easily overlooked and do not detract form the gameplay. This is a title unlike any other for this system. It will keep you engrossed for hours and days and, unlike many titles, will keep you THINKING! This is a must buy for any serious gamer!

this is one great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the best and most addictive game I have ever played. Once you start playing and get a feel of the game, you can watch the hours fly by. The graphics may not be that great, but the gameplay is so tremendous that you can deal with it. The replay value is probably the best part of the game since every time you start a new game a totally new world is created with different tribes who each have their own characteristics making each game brand new. It is nice to play a game where you are not always playing on the same board and know the entire map before you even start playing. This game is highly recommended to any person who has the time to spare and loves strategy games.

The Best Playstation Game (Period)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. (My wife hates it, because I can't stop playing it.) I have played at the Warrior level. I have played at the Deity level. It is great. I feel great when I play it. After playing for an evening, I can say that I've conquered vast empires and built world wonders, or created the greatest civilization on the planet and landed men on the moon! It has the best replay value of any game I've ever played and is by far the most intelligent game I have seen on the Playstation. There are many ways it could be improved, despite its greatness, and I am always looking to see if Activision will convert another of its PC Civ games to the Playstation format. If they came out with one for the Playstation 2, I would buy the Playstation 2 in a heartbeat. (Hint, hint.)

EXCELLENT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

My boyfriend and I fight over who gets to play the game... We'll play it for days at a time with NO break. We even needed a new CD since we played the first one so much!

Civilization is worth every ounce of effort you put into it.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 24, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Get this game. You will be effectively out of the workforce for at least a week once it arrives, but go get it anyway. You deserve the break. This game may have invented the infamous "just one more turn" syndrome (you know what I'm talking about if you have it), and for good reason.

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