#Sid meier's civilization 2 full#
#Sid meier's civilization 2 Pc#
#Sid meier's civilization 2 series#

There's a neat (but rather slow) zoom option should you get bogged down, but it can be a nuisance when things start to get tense. Towards the end of a hard game, I found myself wishing that I could switch back to the old 2D mode just to check that I'd done everything I could to prepare an attack. It is surprisingly easy to mislay units, particularly if the terrain they're on is varied or forested and one or two of your units have previously been fortified. After many hours of play I'm not totally convinced that it works, especially when you're in a complex situation with units all over the place. However, whether a network-ready Civ 2 will appear is unclear at the moment.ДЄnyway, on to the 3D perspective. Perhaps the biggest disappointment is that network play won't be included this is because MicroProse are about to launch Civnet, a network-play version of the original. But the most obvious change is one of perspective - everything in the Civ world is now completely three-dimensional. Combat has been tightened up and new units, advances and wonders introduced, so that players of the original will have plenty to learn. There's the same detailed gameplay and still endless opportunities for trying out different strategies. But now the total has gone up to four - Civilization 2 has just joined the others with a cracking up-till-five debut.Дie-hard Civ fans will be pleased to hear that Civilization 2 is basically an enhanced version of the first game.

#Sid meier's civilization 2 Pc#

It just doesn't 'feel' epic anymore.Until yesterday just three games in my sad, wizened little life had managed to keep me up past 4am: Dungeon Master on the Atari st (back when pc games were still a huge joke). The ranges of combat missions aren't clear. Aerial combat isn't much better, animations for the planes don't play properly. Likewise their 'goto' commands break when they embark, often leading to a huge build up of units on the wrong coast. Not cool if you come back to a game after a long break. it's a bit like the Total War series, where you have the remember where your units are. Civ V has a really annoying habit of 'losing' units. That is of course if your units don't get lost on the way. Capture all the enemy capitals and you win the game. Combat is better, but the dumbing down of naval invasions means it's really easy to snatch the enemy's capital from sea.

Civ V doesn't even have this - it's more like a 'Conglaturation!, you have completed a great game' screen, and that's it. The end screens on Civ IV were short little movie, depending on which victory you attained. On normal it was a bit better, except there's no way of telling if your neighbours are happy with you, so it's easy to descend into bloodshed if you're not disciplined. City-states make ridiculous demands eg 'build a road to my town (on the other side of the planet) and they get really old really fast. Marathon is simply too slow (my rig exceeds recommended specs and hasn't crashed once). I like to play Huge, Marathon, Earth maps because of the 'epic' feel.

#Sid meier's civilization 2 full#

I've played through two full games now, one marathon and one normal.

#Sid meier's civilization 2 series#

The only people who don't think that this is major dumbing down of the series obviously just don't 'get' strategy games. The short of it is: if you have, and like Civ IV BTS, then don't bother. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.