Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack

Since Civilization 2 isn't on GoG yet, I decided to try this because I remember playing it with my cousin. Holy hell I love it. It's basically everything I loved about Civ II but the custom scenarios. I think it'll keep me busy in the meantime and then some, seeing as I just wanted to "get started" and next thing I know it's 3 hours later.

This game is two in one, meaning it has the original Alpha Centauri with the separate expansion game Alien Crossfire. There is no way through the GoG launcher to launch the expansion, but we can launch the executable from the installation folder. The real problem is that Alien Crossfire is fundementally broken, as the most players can do is launch the game and watch as it breaks immediately upon loading the world map, even before the first city is created. I doubt anything will come from this, as it appears to be a porting error, meaning it is a weird and unexpected bug with how newer computers handle something in the expansion's code.

Loads of fun, one of my most favorite Sid games. Never in a grid strategy game could go so fast and entertaining. You could terraform the planet like Earth or keep the planet as is and live with the mindworms and their red fungal habitat. One problem though which happened not too long ago. Windows updated 11 and it uncovered a 25 year old bug in the Alien Crossfire part of Alpha Centauri. There is a patch with the Thinker mod, it's on GitHub but other sites will give you a link to it

Amazingly addictive game. I still play this one from the original disk. The level of customisation on the units is a joy, you can create a variety of units to do specific jobs, along with the comprehensive tech tree. Granted the unique techs don't exist but you don't need them because certain techs benefit certain groups more. Why oh why is Alien Crossfire not included - if it had then that would have been another purchase. I guess I will stick with my original disk.

I'm not even going to talk about the game, the rest of the reviews will do that for me. The lore in this game is beautifully written - when you start getting deeper you realize it's wonderfully complex for a 4x strategy game. I recommend reading the Prequel stories to get the full flavor of it.