User Reviews (1 - 11 of 37)

Show these reviews first:

Highest Rated
Lowest Rated Newest
Oldest Most Helpful
Least Helpful

a fairly cool game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Call to Power II is a pretty cool game. I'm new to the turn based genre and although I liked it at first, I decided to stick to real time. I mean it's still a good game and the level of complexity is staggering, allowing for hours of gameplay and that's only the first 20-30 years out of 6000+. You start out in an ancient land around 3600 B.C. and build a capitol for your empire. From there you create units, build more cities, and explore the "world" which is quite vast. You can "research" all kinds of stuff and will be informed when something new has been "discovered". As you progress thru time your options, units, and cities get more and more advanced and you go all the way into the distant future. The control panel is easy to understand and gives you complete access to every aspect of the game. There is also the "Great Library", an immense resource of knowledge with concise info on your empire and the various advancements you can create for your cities and units. The graphics are great and it runs 100% smooth on my PIII 500. Overall a very well done game. I prolly won't play it again but I give props to the game's authors!! Any Civilization fan will like this game!

So Much To Do

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I'm not a big fan of turn based games, but I liked this one. It's kind of like an Age of Empires meets Sim City, I thought.

You build an empire up by building cities with settlers, then creating units and roads, making diplomatic decisions, arranging trade routes, researching technologies, gathering wealth, planting farms, altering the landscape. It starts from the primal ages and goes as far forward in time as you like, past the Pyramids with its stone working, the Middle Ages with feudalism and monarchy, the modern era with TV, all the way to a sci-fi future with units and upgrades to match, clones, nanobots, satellites, everything. It sounds complicated, but you can elect "mayors" to do local things automatically for you. You can be a whole bunch of civilizations, name and rename the cities you make and capture, and name the leader you are. There can be war, or there can be peace, there's things to do either way. There are "wonders" to build, everything from the Great Wall of China to the Empire State Building, and more abstract ones like the Internet. There's also the citizens to keep happy, and barbarians to fight against, and lawyers and spies...

So much in this game.

What an improvement!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This has the same look and feel of Civilization and Civilization II and it is something that I play for hours! Very nice graphics, music and movies! It's a hit!

So totally sweet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I got this game because I had tried Civilization: Call To Power 1, and when I heard about Call To Power 2, I knew I had to get it. I like the new images for the units (such as the Fusion Tank and Settler), and some new units like the Hover Infantry. The things I don't like about it are you can't cheat for all the Advances, or reveal the entire map. For some people, this might be annoying because they can't take their enemies out right away, and modern Wonders aren't available for a long time. Anyway, I thought this game was "So totally sweet!"

The best, the only

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Civilisation series are in my opinion the only games one doesn't get bored of after a while. The way in which the game is structured is so complex that the possibilities and game approaches are numerous. other strategy games (settlers, age of empires, dark reign, cossacks ...) are all set up in the same way: some guys gather the food, some fight, and some gather the wood, iron or whatever is needed. in civilization (the call to power series as well as the original ones) the setup is completely different.

civilisation to me is most definitely the best, and the only one ...

Dumb

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: May 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I hated this game. it was hard to figure out how to play. I never liked it. it is an extremely stupid game. dont buy it. save yourselves.

very good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I liked CTP2 but there were things that I didn't like.I would like to give it 4 and a half stars but I couldn't. Another thing that was depressing was how long it takes for the trn to elapse. Maybe it's just my computer.

best strategy game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 95
Date: August 18, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best civilization game yet! It has the ultimate 3D gafics and has over two thasand years of game play.

Terrible, don't waste money wait for civ3

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: May 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Activision can't make Civilization, only Sid Meirs can. don't waste money wait for Civilization 3

Not realistic enough

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is the fourth (I think) in a series of games that is now nearly a decade old. Being unfamiliar with the earlier versions, I had to judge this games strictly on its own merits, and by that standard, it satisfies me, but not completely. OK, the bad news first. This game is sometimes prone to crashing unexpectedly, so as a precaution you should save the game every several turns or risk losing centuries of progress due to a crash. If you crash repeatedly, you must then restart your computer, resulting in a long delay. Also, during normal game play, you tend to bounce around a lot from area to area, sometimes resulting in frustration if you want to stay in one place after ending a turn. You also see strange things like ships passing through narrow strips of land, or airplanes hovering motionless in the air between turns. The AI opponents are lacking in both diplomatic common sense and military cunning, and can be beaten easily because they tend to stack many units together only in their own cities and attack your empire with only one or two units at a time. Not smart at all! A serious puzzle about this game is that it has Space Flight as an advance, but the Space Plane unit is only used to transport land units from one side of the world to another, making it of limited value to a player. Also, why is the Facism advance appearing BEFORE the Nationalism advance, rather than the other way around??? Clearly the game is not realistic enough. It's good to boost your ego by crushing an incompetent AI opponent, but don't expect the real world to be anything like this. The best feature of this game has to be the Diplomacy Manager, which allows various offers and counter-offers to be made and even enables you to threaten your opponent for being difficult. The game's historical notes are detailed and readable and the issues raised by it regarding pollution and the "Zero Crime Bill" were still good food for thought. I only hope they can design a future version of this game that is based strictly on real history. After all, the idea of a fascist America crushing a democratic Nigeria doesn't appeal to me at all!

Review Page: 1 2 3 4 Next 

Actions