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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.

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!!!

IT SUCKS BIG TIME

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: January 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I didn't like it. It was too hard to understand, it was boring, and I just all out hated it.

Play something else, that's exactly what I did!

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 -

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.

I didn't really like the game, but the music was outstanding

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I found this game to be really dull. But the music and little drawings that play while installing it were fantastic. For the money I'd say the best use for the CD is listening to the music which has sort of an African motiff.

Better Than Civilization III

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: December 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. If you like empire building and military strategy turn based games, buy this game for the decent price offered here, before you waste your money and time on Civilization III.

Civilization: Call to Power ---
1. Has a much better system of building your infrastructure than do any of the Civ series,
2. Has a MUCH better combat system than Civ I, II, and III,
3. Was copied (albeit poorly) by Civ3 in many ways (e.g. bombardment, public works, military support, etc.),

4. Has superior game play to Civ III.
5. Is a lot of fun to play!

The artificial intelligence is not bad in Call To Power, but it is easily defeated once you get the feel of it. The best opponent, while playing Call To Power, is another human, and Call To Power has the best multiplayer support (both for Internet play and Play-by-Email) of any of the Civilization series games. ... Enjoy yourselves!

Better than Civ2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: October 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have to strongly disagree with most of the reviews here. I bought Call to Power last year - my first experience of a Civilizaton game. I struggled with the tutorial as it seemed so complicated and put it aside for a while. A few months later, I had another go at it and after persevering I got totally addicted. I've spent too much time playing this game. Weekends, evenings - I've had days off work and wasted them playing this game.

You can imagine then how excited I was reading reviews here saying that Civilization 2 was so superior... I eventually got round to buying Civ2 and it's like Call to Power but ten years less advanced. The landscape isn't realistic enough. In C2P, the landscape is very real and you feel like you're actually building in a desert or in a jungle. In Civ2 the characters are just person shaped blobs while in C2P, the people are ornately drawn and properly animated instead of pathetically sliding from one square to the next.
For this reason, I've abandoned Civ2. Maybe one day I'll get past the graphics and enjoy the game but so far, I remain to be convinced that it is superior to C2P.

They took functions out of the game to add graphics

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well, if you've never played Civilization before, you might like it. For the gamers, collectors, and followers maybe buy it and stuff it in a corner. The settlers don't improve the terrain, the units are not supported by individual towns, and on and on. I just can't think what happened here? Did someone else get a cheap contract on the rights? Where is the game? Cinamatics are blurry...ah it is hard to bad mouth what use to be a good game, but like everyone else has already said, "Skip this one." And, get the name of that truck. What happened?

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