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Great Way To Stop Smoking

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

I don`t think I`ve ever played a game as involving as CALL TO POWER. I`d make myself a cup of tea , light a cigarette and put the game on , instantly the cigarette stays in the ashtray , the cup of tea gets cold and undrunk as my entire mental being focuses on the game. I`ve lost count of the number of hours I have sat in front of my computer playing this game , reality and the world outside just disappear . My all time favourite computer game and one I would recommend for everybody intrested in stratagy games

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.

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!

One of the srategy GREATS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: March 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

For those of you that have never played a Civilization game, it is a strategy game in which you start off controlling only a simple band of settlers. As the game progresses, you choose places to build your cities, what is built in each of them, your type of government, and your foreign policy. Of course, you're not going to start off in modern times (unless you use an editor), so you have to decide where to guide your resources: should you jump head-first into the scientific stream, leaving yourself open for attack, ignore science and dominate the world with an iron fist, act as passive traders with other nations, or anything your heart may desire. Ultimately, you end up forging the history of your people; it's up to you if they emerge victorious, or disappear in the chaos of time.

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

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.

Deep yet impenetrable

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this game a couple of days ago..I'm still trying to get through the tutorial. Apparently there is no way to get past level 2, as you are not allowed to progress until you've completed the step that is prompted by the tutorial. In my case, I have repeated the same step over and over and over, but I guess it must be a glitch in the game or something, as it won't go past this step. The interface is absolutely impossible to figure out, even with the Tutorial. Anyway, this could have been a great game, as it contains massive info about history and civilizations, etc. which is more interesting than anything I ever studied in a history class, but playable? I don't know.

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.

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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