Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack

This easily one of the greatest strategy games ever made. An amazing setting combined with solid game-play and AI that is challenging even today, SMAC is worth every penny and more.

Alpha Centauri is quite simply the greatest turn based strategy game of all time. It is Brian Reynolds’ and Sid Meiers’ absolute masterwork. Buy it.

Amazing Sid Meier game, and comes with the Alien Crossfire expansion! There should be absolutely no reason whatsoever to not own this. Water cities! Planet busters! If you haven't played this before you should. If you have played it before, you've already bought it.

Game runs flawlessly under 64 bit operating systems with the movies. Has all the fan tweaks to make the game run on modern systems and now with the expansion bundled there is no reason not to buy it.

I have to admit, I played SMAC when it first came out in the late 1990's and loved the theme of Civ in Space so when I found it on sale on gog, I bought it. Yes, I now have a 40 inch display, rather than my 17 inch back then, so was limited to 1024x768 but the gameplay was and still is the reason to play. However, I had to modify the Alpha Centauri.Ini file with settings Video Mode=1024 DirectDraw=0 in order for it to work in windows7 64bit. Gog had its own general tips on making "old" games work, but only these specific setting worked for me and hopefully, they will help other people who have a similar problem. SMAC installed fine, but before the changed settings in its ini file, the graphics look corrupted and barely navigable. Needless to say, if you don't know how to edit a text file, like Alpha Centauri.Ini, then you will have to first learn how do do that.