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Fun for the first week

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It should be stated at the beginning that this is a Northstar protected game, and that Northstar systems do turn Trojan on you. My anti-virus just recently deleted the game and quarantined the executables.

The gameplay is more fast paced than the original, but also a bit more simplified. Gone are the days of setting up Coups in 3rd world nations and controlling their puppet governments, not when you successfully stage one the rest of the world starts attacking you, and the country you over took will just start getting invaded by other countries. Usually Italy, China and Turkey. Playing as a 3rd World nation is substantially harder too as the AI now likes to become imperialistic at random intervals, mostly Poland, China and Turkey, making it very hard to keep a stabilized nation anywhere in Africa or Asia. But its still fun to Nuke the world and watch the fallout destroy continents at a time.

hope they have a sequel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

old software but heard recently somehow. no more support and hard to get a customer service though.
It's Civilizaion style game but it's more realistic.
you will have a problem with installation but you could find a newer patch some where.

Not Bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Havn't had much of a chance to get truly into this yet, but it seems pretty interesting.

Combat is lame, and the interface is a bit clumsy, but there seems to be a healthy amount of depth to the sim. The game rewards those who are mindful of their economy, and opportunistic.

Futureshop has it for 29.99 - save your 10 bucks.

Fan of Superpower, looking forward to it's sequel

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 23
Date: September 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was a perty big fan of the original Superpower and still play it from time to time despite it's flaws. The major flaw being the bugs which seemed to happen at the worst times. Second, would be graphics, they did do a good job of maps which look even better in 2 from what I've seen and unit availability but not with unit graphics, all things looked alike (Aircraft had one graphic if it were a fighter or a bomber...) but they have fixed that for number 2. Another complaint would be that it was too easy once you get the hang of it as the computer was very simple minded.

The bad aside, I do very much so look forward to Superpower 2 and intend to buy it as soon as it's available. Here's to a better game! (I hope.)

Good Sim

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This a very interactive sim with a steep learning curve. Has bugs, have to download a patch to get past the cd key. Will not appeal to everyone. If you like sims, and you like problem solving (a lot) this is the game for you.

Average game, terrible stability

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to like this game. I think that its basic premise is very innovative, and I looked forward to a combo of military strategy and economic managment.
However, this game just doesn't deliver. Bugs ranging from graphical glitches to horribly obvious exploits can be found everywhere. The AI is incredibly stupid. You can get the US to buy 1 piece of your land for trillions of dollars, get people to declare war on Iraq or North Korea just by asking them, and manipulate common markets to make triliions. The only redeming feature is the few diehard fans who are still trying to mod this game into what it should have been in the first place. Unless you are absoltuley desparate for this type of game, you shouldn't buy it.

Won't load!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: November 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

No idea if the game works - it won't load on two different computers. I hate it when companies release games that aren't ready for the market.

Fun but buggy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 17
Date: October 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well this game is fn i have to say that i like these type of games. It has a great wealth of knowledge about real world countries in it based as of 2001 but thats about it and is great fun to play before the bugs kick in. First bug i noticed was the sound the sound just started to loop could never figure out how to fix that with out restarting the game. Next is saving bug once i alrady saved a game once i like to keep games named the same but doing 2nd and 3rd saves at time really is a mess the game would crash and could never keep a nice game going for more then 6 years in game. Another bug i found is the research bug is still here fromt he orignal at times itll say you have not enough research in a area becuase its grayed out yet you have to have at elast a one in everything when ya start. The final word is they sent out a phase 1-2 beta for sell it should of went through more testing before released to the public and itll probley have lack luster support like the first one

I've seen a lot better

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: August 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Buggy. This game crashed on me every twenty minutes until I got the patch. After the patch it was nearly impossible to play. Nations would just go rogue and start attacking far away countries. What is the most absurd to me is this game just doesn't take into account the U.S. Navy's sole ability to project war onto other continents. All the Navies in the game are capable of sending their warships all around the world and with enough gun ships, they can sink a U.S. carrier. I've also tried playing as many African nations, and it's nearly impossible, their economies are too small and they have huge militaries they can't possibly sustain. They go bankrupt in a few years. Also, the oddest thing that happened after the patch was the elections. The Republican party started winning. And I don't just mean in the U.S.! Soon the entire world was controlled by the Republican Party. While the idea is kinda funny to me, it's completely unrealistic and a huge bug.
The only fun part is playing as the US and attacking small countries. You overwhelm them so much it's kinda fun. You can take Cuba in a week. But once you get bored having the biggest military, the game's flaws become much harder to ignore.

The Good, The Bad and The Bugs

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: February 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The concept behind Super Power 2 is great. You can basically take any country on earth and run it any way you see fit. If you want to try to run America as a military dictatorship or if you want to run Saudia Arabia as a multi-party, you can. The options are virtually limitless

You can produce commodities such as grain, meat, energy, ect. You can also build military units and even research new units

You can wage war on your neighbors, and while the battle graphics are a little cheesy, it gets the job done

This is not a game for the casual gamer who is looking for a quick game before dinner. This game is very in depth and demanding and some of the micro-management can become tedious.

Now for the bugs and let me tell you, there are bugs galore. The game is notorious for crashing to the desktop as well as saved games not loading. Even with the patches and tweaks, game stability leaves a lot to be desired. While Super Power 2 is a vast improvement over its predesecor (it does feature online play), with all of the bugs and technical issues, you may wind up wanting to nuke the game, instead of your neighbors

So is it worth $29.95? If it was not for all the glitches, crashes and bugs I would say yes. Until Golem Labs comes up with a solution, I would say to look for it in the bargin bin or 2cd hand

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