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Excellent Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is an excellent game. Though this is a sequel to Civ II there is no need to have experience on that game. This new game eliminates the blurring of history periods that occurs in Civ II. It also allows for different kinds of victories. It further has many customization options. Then there are the nuclear weapons! WOW! You can upgrade the warheads and the bombs get more and more powerful. At one point you can vaproize about 20 squares and as many cities that would be in that area! The mushroom cloud that accompanies the strike is most impressive. Unlike a lot of sims out there, this one come with very complete information and manuals. If you enjoyed Civ II or the builing empires kind of games this is a MUST HAVE!

Terrific game, but software problems?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The gameplay is really good with a terrific feature for playing that will walk you through features rather than having to read the entire manual to play it the first time. When you start playing over time, it gets really addictive, but things slow down as the game advances. The pieces move like they are on drugs, really sloooow. Unless you have a terrific system to play it on it will slow down as you advance. I have also had two separate lockups in a very advanced stage of play that caused me to have to start over when it reached a stardate even from a stored game, really frustrating when you have spent weeks getting it to that point! Still really worth buying, maybe the lockups were a corrupted copy

Great game, although can be hard to master.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is the Civilization concept set on another planet. The graphics are cooler, and their is flexiblity in creating weapons and the such. I like the United Nations concept, but some of the dialog, especially when you discover something new is kind of irritating. It's usually something pretentious. It's a little harder to master and learn than Civ2, so it will take longer to get bored with it than Civ2. I like the constant graphics that tell you who is winning, and who is the strongest, it helps out a lot with strategy.

What can I say

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Yeah, what can I say? This game has so depth in all, you have to play it to experience it. Eye-candyed users, especially young people, will probably not like this game because of the graphics. But this game rocks.

I remember back in 1999 when I first played. I barely slept and eat. Its the kind of game that you keep installing again, from time to time, just to "check it out" again. No other game has this, this, I dont know, depth! So many things to see and so many things to get addicted.

Thats the stuff legends are for. Now I really have something to be excited and proud of, when friends ask me what my favourite game of all times is. The answer is simple. SMAC. You'll have a better life :)

One of the games that turned me on to turn based strategy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a classic. I loved this game, and spent hour after hour playing it. As noted in many of the other reviews, I fell into the state of "just one more turn" - often to the neglect of eating, drinking or sleep. But hey, who needs that? I have missed this game quite a bit, as I have never been able to get it to work with the XP patch, or to run in '98 mode. I too hope this will get a second look by Sid Meier, and get revamped for XP/Vista. Certainly a game that still receives such high marks should be given another life.

GREAT GAME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are great for their time, not bad at all even though its old. The gameplay is great: turn based strategy. I have spent way too many hours of my life playing this game! On top of that, it is really cheap here on amazon. I lost my first copy, so I bought another one, that is how much I like this game. Similar to other Sid Meier strategy games like civilization.

Apha Centauri

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game at a EB store. It was one of the most interesting civ games I have ever played. It had verry good game concpts and I played for hours on end. And that was about 7 to 10 years ago. I still remeber playing it. But then again I like all civ games. It got 4 stars over all. But I only got 3 stars of fun out of it. I finaly got burnt out on it and traded it. And I have nothing but good memories from playing it. Planting forest and reaserching biomorphic fugi. And the wierd mind worms which took the place of barbains. Differnt factions such as chairman yang of the hive and more cool stuff.

Best game by best game designer ever!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 11, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Alpha Centauri, is quite simply, the best computer game ever made. It's intricate, and challenging. It can be played in an infinite variety of circumstances against the computer or your friends. Buy it!!!

Alpha Centauri

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

In the Metric Year 2060, riots and wars have nearly destroyed Earth and the United Nations. As the end grows near, the United Nations Starship Unity is launched towards the planet, called, simply, 'Planet', which orbits Alpha Centauri A. As the Unity approaches Planet, a meteor collission damages the ship. The seven most powerfull leaders of the ship each take their share of crewmembers, supplies, and a 'Colony Pod', and split, minutes before the Unity's fusion core explodes. Choose to be leader of one of the seven factional leaders-Academician Prokhor Zakharov,of the scientific University of Planet; the religious Sister Miriam Godwinson, of the Lord's Beleivers; Brother Pravin Lal, of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces; and four more. Explore unknowm territory, recover resupply pods scattered by the Unity before it was destroyed, battle other factions and alien swarms, and talk with the other leaders. If you like Civilization, Outpost, and Command and Conquer,you'll love this! Also, be sure to buy the expansion pack, Alien Crossfire!

IT IS DA BOMB

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

As a kid, this game is great. It has 7 factions, or groups, all with different outlooks on the planet they crashed on. The challenge at the beginning is contacting the other factions. My bro has already lost a unit to mind worms (However, that unit was damaged). There is one other annoying part. Whenever you make a gigantic leap in the progress of your faction, this little screen comes up with a weird image on it. I haven't played Civ 2 yet, so maybe it's good if you haven't played its predessors. One more thing. Don't expect to become INSTANTLY dominant.

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