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INCREDIBLE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 20
Date: February 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Well, Civ 2 was just great! It was a great game. When Civ 2 Gold came out, I thought, "Great. Another upgrade." I thought it wouldn't be worth the money. I changed my mind real quick when I played it! It has all the great things from the oiginal Civ 2, and TONS more. Most noticable change: MULTIPLAYER! Great multiplayer mode, where you can play your own map, a scenario, or a regular game. There is even a "hot-seat" option for two or more human players! However, in my opinion, the best thing about this game is the incredible amount of scenarios. It comes with two scenario packages: Fantastic Worlds and Conflicts in Civilization. Fantastic worlds is great fun! It has 15 scenarios, with things like being able to play dinosaurs! Conflicts is great too, with battles like Desert Storm to act out with your friends or by yourself. Just like Civ 2 regular, it comes with a map editor to make your own worlds. However, in Civ 2 Gold, you can also make your own SCENARIOS. It is used like the still-present cheat mode, allowing you to edit units, towns, science, turns, everything! Put this together with cheat mode, and you can make your own scenario masterpieces! As for the gameplay, its great! the controls for multiplayer negotiating are perfect! This game is very challenging, for the newbies and the unexperienced. It features alliances, scientific progress, strategic military warfare, negotiating, building cities, trading, keeping track of supply and demand, and building wonders of the world! It also comes with a large fold- out poster of Advances and Unit stats! The well-written 275-page manual should leave all your questions answered, as it even gives you scenario descriptions. My conclusion: buy this game. Great game, two scenario packages, a map editor scenario editor, and MULTIPLAYER gaming up to 7 people. Get this game, it's one of the best games ever!

Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 19
Date: November 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

It's good. Especially the multiplayer part. My friends and I help each other fight opponents while researching and building an army. After we're all powerful we fight each other. It's a great game!

Icing on an already great cake

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: July 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Civ II is still probably the best strategy game in existence, and the Gold Edition only embellishes this. My favorite new feature is the scenario editor--while it still takes forever to build a scenario from scratch, the game parameter options allow to fiddle with the technology tree, units, and variables such as the chance of a trireme sinking in open sea. I've used it to make the industrial phase of the tech tree much more accurate and to eliminate the "goody huts," which ruin play balance for the early stages of the game. The added scenarios fall into two categories: the good historical ones written by Mick Uhl, and the crazed fantasy ones (which may be good too--I haven't tried them) where you control aliens, dinosaurs, elves, etc. Save this stuff for other games! I have a few small complaints: 1. (about the original) Whoever made the Europe map was geographically illiterate. Critical regions like Belgium and Italy are shrunken, and France and Russia are exaggerated. Not to mention the islands are all wrong and there was no attempt to differentiate between steppe and northern plain. 2. Old bugs have not been removed in the Gold Edition. I won't get started on how annoying this is. 3. The new music is HORRIBLE! That being said, I recommend the Gold Edition if you're new to the game or if you want more scenarios and wide freedom to tinker with the game.

Lüv-Håt

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. I hate this game. I love that I hate this game. Civ II is the sort of game that smacks you around if you don't exploit fast enough and rewards you greatly if you manage to spread like a plague in NYC. Rules: keep your people happy, well fed, defended, and ever-expanding. Irrigate everything, cover the landscape in roads. Build a city every 5 world units. Use coastal locations, develop your government to monarcy first, isolate and destroy lesser cultures. Start colonies on every continent you can, and have them expand like a giant amoeba. Destroy anything that is in your way, isolate your continents for your use alone.

This game requires a keypad that you can press in 8 directions easily, so powerbook users must have a keypad they can trust if they don't want to use the bleeding imbedded keys.

All in all, one of the greatest games ever made, Mac or peecee.

Civ 2 for the Mac is great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great strategy game. The graphics are sparse - more like an old-style board game where you move pieces rather than the snazzy 3d graphics we have come to expect (and that slow a game down). Civ 2 is an open-style game - there is no set path the game will take. You can try to peacefully build a society based upon trade, democracy, and commerce or you can devote your efforts towards military conquest. The choice is yours.

The AI is pretty good and game speed is fine. Try it!

Still in the top 3 of all time games -- nothing like it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of my favorite games in the world, i am in my 20s and still play this game. it is so time consuming and fun that i go to sleep thinking of it after playing for hours. Sid Meier is a genius. i have a ps2 and play that as well but Alpha Centauri and Civilization are still the most fun.

Best game for the PC!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This has to be one of the best games that I have played! It is the best one in the trilogy,with its great graphics and wide choice range. Do not get this game if you don't have time, It can be one of the longest and most addictive games for the PC! Also try the great multiplayer mode with your friends!

Awsome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: January 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

It was so cool the first time I played it was justa great experiance. Although I wish they had more units.

I love this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely loved this game. It was the first time I ever played Civilization, and now it's got me hooked. I can't wait to see other versions of the game, hope they're as much fun as this one!

The best strategy game I know!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Civilization II Gold is the best strategy game I have ever played, it is simply very, very addictive. Aside from having numerous great units, buildings and wonders, you can play on the actual map of earth, which is, in my opinion, a very important feature. Clearly a great game!

Too bad there is not a good sequal to this spectacular game. Hopefully Call to Power II will be much better than its first version.

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