Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack

Definitely one of my favorite games so far. Do wish that the expansion was also available. Still, the game is certainly worth the purchase and the time it will suck up after getting it.

I've played many hours of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. It's an interesting take on Civilization, colonizing a mysterious planet full of xenofungus that, by all accounts, seems to be rather hostile to your being there, and yet being able to build a civilization anyway. The diplomacy system is more advanced than that of Civ1 and Civ2, too, which is a nice touch. Your territory's borders are clearly marked on the map and must be respected. That said, the game has a few flaws that stop it being a 5-star game in my opinion. The "music" is utterly appalling. The least bad music is the Gaian music which is very boring indeed, and everything else doesn't really count as music at all, but more of a cacophony of sudden noises and irritating discordant tones that assault the ears. They should've hired someone competent to do a decent music track. This is unfortunate, as the best way to play the game is probably with the music off. The game seems rather unbalanced, too; the human hive will usually spam tons of colonies and kick ass, whereas the Morganites will build 4 or 5 colonies and promptly get destroyed by someone else. It all feels a little unfinished. Also, and this is a small bugbear of mine, the latest patch of the game corrupts the minimap in the bottom-right corner, making the colony "dots" corrupted and out of shape. This is an introduced bug because an earlier version that I had did not have this problem. Overall, still a very good strategy game. But a shame about the flaws.

I only wish for Alien Cross Fire. Other games Dungeon Siege 2. Still waiting on it

I really don't know if I like it or not. Hard to tell if you cannot get the game to start up. Meet all system requirements. Running on Windows 10. 100% of the time it crashes once I click on start up icon. 100%.

Always have liked playing this from time to time. I actually do own a cd original copy, but that version won't work on anything past WinXP. I only wish this came with the Alien Crossfire Pack.