Prepare to accept history's greatest challenge - build the world's most powerful empire over a span of 6,300 years, reaching from primitive history to the future realms of science-fiction. Take your place beside history's greatest leaders as you master the intricate strategies of governing, warfare,...
Prepare to accept history's greatest challenge - build the world's most powerful empire over a span of 6,300 years, reaching from primitive history to the future realms of science-fiction. Take your place beside history's greatest leaders as you master the intricate strategies of governing, warfare, diplomacy, trade and science. Sow the seeds of an empire as you cultivate a tribe of settlers in 4,000 BC. Hear the cheers of approval as you lead your flourishing society into the future of 2,300 AD.
Answer the Call to Power.
Over 6000 years of gameplay with a sophisticated diplomatic, economic and warfare system
A worthy successor to the famous Sid Meier's Civilization series
One of the finest turn-based strategy games of all time, with challenging gameplay
CtP2 has its flaws and bugs, yet the gameplay entertains me more than any game in the Civilization series. What I appreciate the most is the ability to colonize also the seas, modify the terrain and have a wide variety of units with different strategic value.
I'm not saying that it's better than Civilization, though; I'm simply saying that CtP2 entertains me more.
I realize this is a 20+ year old game, and as such the conventions of today's designs cannot be well applied to a game this old.
But even compared to contemporaries, it fails to present anything in either interesting or informative ways. The only positive is that the text is readable. The rest of the interface is so Skeuomorphic as to frequently slow down the game due to needing to hover over a tiny icon and wait for a tooltip.
In the screenshots, that small spherical globe is your main interface, which given how poorly it scales, seems like a poor choice compared to the more menu based UI of the first game. (And other games, for that matter)
The game's encyclopaedia is bafflingly unintuitive to navigate; lacking entirely in well made hyperlinks and descriptors, which is bizarre, given the popularity of multimedia encyclopaedias at the time.
One unique aspect is the Public Works system. Rather than hiring workers to till land, build roads, and make mines, you instead invest points into building them from another naff menu. This means that rather than waiting for a route to be made because your workers are at it, you instead might find yourself waiting for enough points to accrue. And given the way the system works, it would make it unnatural to route to say, an ally.
One final thought before wrap is that the colour palette leaves much to be desired, which I would describe as bland at best, and irritatingly off at worst.
All in all, C2P2 presents some interesting twists on the normal Civ formula. Most of the are executed in an awful way.
Music doesnt play. Wonders movies dont play. GOG demands data to fix an issue with the game they can fix. IE i cannot email them or create a ticket for this issue becuase the data log requirement. At least you stack units and scale quicker in this version. Tech tree has some issues but the game overall still functions and looks good.
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