Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack

When I first played Alpha Centauri I was amazed at the advances it had made over its predecessors. Almost everything I might conceive of doing was available - I could customize and upgrade units, the diplomatic options were astounding, I could customize my government, my governmental choises had meaningful impacts on diplomacy, and they had truly different ways to win. On top of that, the computerized opponents felt like they had real, distinct personalities - you knew exactly what you were in for if you started next to Miriam. What has really amazed me is the failure of future games to take advantage of the majority of these improvements, with the most obvious being unit customization and enhanced diplomacy. Every time I try a new Civ game (most recently Civ 7) I play it and realize how it is inferior to a game 25 years old. If anyone has never tried it, you absolutely should. There are some downsides - the graphics are outdated and game navigation could use some help. But those are nothing compared to the real joy that this game can provide.

Happy days from the 1990 all good

This is an intricate explore and build game that has indepth world building that has withstood the test of time and has an deep world built with amazing voice acting and its cinmatic secret projects. I suck at playing it when the fighting begins agmost the factions and mid-to-late game can take very long if you don't have the skip players turn, but I always come back to this game now and again because I love the atmosphere and build them of early-early mid game.

i have been playing this for the past 20 years of my life and i still keep getting drawn back

If you like classics and can get past a clunky interface and lack of descernable information, it was a nice journey with a good story implanted within your quest for (alpha)planetary domination.