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Clunky, badly-done.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's a sad comment when a classic game is succeeded, several generations later, by a 'sequel' that is considerably harder to play and much more annoying in interface and controls. Don't buy this. Please, don't subject yourself to it. Buy Civ2 - which is similar to this, only not broken and far less annoying. Buy Civ3. Buy Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. But don't buy this. The pathing is a pain, you can't get to the controls for your cities or your units, and it's just generally one of the few games I ripped out of my CD drive and threw against the wall in pure frustration.

UGH!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: August 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The absolute WORST game. It's just plain awful. It's so awful it's frusterating. The box shows like you can build buildings in cities that you create, but you can't. It's awful and awful. Save your money and buy Pacman.

technology alone doesn't save a game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Yes, this game does have good graphics. It also has loads of technology up on Civ II. However, technology doesn't always make a game better or more fun to play. Let's face it, if that were the case there wouldn't be people scouring the internet for copies of King's Quest 1.
This was my first experience with the Civ games, and I didn't like it. There were too many military units, and it seemed by the time you finally finished building one it was obsolete. Also, the caravans were, well, annoying. You had to build dozens of these little caravans to trade amongst your own civ!!! Civ III addressed this problem by only having to build roads around your civ (so much simpler.)
While Civ III IS still new and fairly expensive, I would tell people to buy it instead. Or if they couldn't afford it, I'd tell them to get Civ II. A Civ game just isn't a (good) Civ game without Sid Meier.

Don't waste your time and money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are a Civilization fan, you might be tricked into thinking this is a Civ II sequel. The game is NOT a part of Sid Meier's series. It's an imitation, and a bad one at that. Poor graphics, counterintuitive interface, dumb AI, slow and uninteresting game play. Go for Civ III, there is a good reason this one is so cheap.

clunky but workable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It still irks me that my tanks can be fended off by phalanxes in cities, but it has decent graphics for a civ game. The thing that I like most about it is that it goes into the future and creates a whole history of the future. Thats why I still prefer this game over civ3. Where civ 3 ends u still have a whole millina to discover new and intresting technologies to pursue. Civ 3 should definately take all its improvements but change the timeline for their next game

So Many Things Wrong...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: June 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

... it's hard to know where to begin - Map Generator is awful, AI is stupid (at the beginner level), next level up is "impossible" - Game DRAGS - A MASSIVE disappointment - stick with CIV III -

Not what I ordered

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is not Civilization Call to Power. This is CTP II. I wanted CTP (original) because is allowed you to operate in space and build flying storm troopers. This version has done away with those types of advances. I was very disappointed because I had search long and hard for a vender that was selling the original CTP. This vendor claimed to, and the picture shows the original, but the original is not what I received!!!

Disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got this game after getting hooked on Civ I and Civ II. Wow what a disappointment. I haven't tried Civ III yet but it HAS to be better than this. The AI is not intelligent by any means. The graphics are OK. But the game just bogs you down with tedious fine tuning of all your cities. And having to send caravans to your own cities is just silly. Roads should allow trade automatically.

overall, don't waste your time on this game.

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