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A Model of How the World Works

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Civilization II is a decided improvement over Civilization I, already an outstanding game. Civ II features a number of new, improved, and snazzier units. It is also "equal opportunity," insofar as each civilization can have either a male and female ruler (although the latter is sometimes the wife of some noted male ruler), as well as female civilian units, engineers and spies, that appear in midgame and are twice as efficient as their ancient male counterparts.

I prefer to play on the "real world" map because it gives insights into the historical forces that shaped civilizations. For instance, the Mongols and the Russians are hostile, aggressive, powers because they were landlocked, resource (read arms) -rich, food- and trade- poor countries. England and Japan compensate with expansionist tendencies for their starts on small islands. Meanwhile the Americans are a friendly people (except possibly against the Aztecs and/or Sioux) because they were blessed with an ideal combination of trade, resources, and food, as well as a "splendid isolation."

The diplomacy function, which was the weak link of Civilization I, has been vastly improved in Civilization II. For instance, human players are penalized in terms of "reputation" for breaking peace treaties. And the computer players are great at forming alliances against the strongest country in the world (or on a continent) to prevent one civilization from running away with the show and conquering the entire planet. The alliance option is usually available to the human player too. "Peace" now forces civilizations to withdraw troops from each others' territories, while the "no war" state of Civilization I is called a ceasefire.

The combat function has been upgraded using protocols from other war games. Battles now have multiple rounds, typically resulting in one "killed" and one wounded unit, more nearly reflecting relative strengths, instead of "all or nothing" fights that do give weak, ancient, phalanxes a one chance in five or ten of destroying modern armored or battleship units.

There are seven new wonders, mostly representing the endowments of famous people in history (Leonardo's Workshop, Sun Tzu's War Academy), and the old wonders have been revamped slightly, usually by making them more or less powerful. (Free government changes aren't allowed until midgame after the discovery of Democracy and building of the Statue of Liberty, while the pyramids provide a granary in each city.) These add dimension and complexity to an already fascinating game.

Addictive but slow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 24, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a great and addicting version of the PC classic. However, in later stages of the game things really slow down while you wait endlessly for the Playstation to crunch through your and your AI opponents' decisions. Nonetheless, I can't stop playing this game.

I HAVE 1 GAME FOR THE PS1, THIS IS IT.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First thing to do, raise luxury taxes, lower income taxes.

1 player.
Best strategy game ever.
If game load fails, buff disc.
Recommend playing tutorial first.
Educational, vis-a-vis cultural evolution.
Paying tribute to others speeds up progress.
First think tank to "PHILOSOPY" gets important freebie.
Later in the game, save after each turn or you will be sorry.
Cheat code; name a city _CasH (hold down R button while entering capital H).

If you like this game try the movie: The Sum of All Fears (Special Collector's Edition)
If you like this game try Super Nintendo P.T.O.
If you like this game try Allied General

Sold-seperate companion: Sony PSOne Console

O.K., Now What?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: May 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

You're gonna think this is funny, I got this game Dec. 25, it's now May 1 and I haven't finished it yet, ONE GAME! I conqured the world a long time ago, & sent a spaceship up and, like the game, it just kept going and going...Rent it, but Don't buy it!

Definitley an Intelligent game - but painfully slow moving

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is not a game for the impacient. Normally, If I dig into a game I know will take a long time solve, it has to motivate me with an interesting story line, music and or graphics (an RPG like FFVII or VIII for instance) However, If you are interested in a complex and super challenging strategy game, this may be for you. Too bad they never made Age of the Empires for PSX, and warcraft psx is really hard to find!!

civilzation 2 review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game to play. It's very addictive, so don't start playing unless you have at least an hour to play. This game is a lot like the game RISK But a lot more detailed. If you like strategy games then you should get this game. now, stop reading and go get it. hurry up dude.

... on this

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: April 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

you build cities research stuff in them the city gives yo warriors to battle.and to play the game fully and get lots of technology you have to play for 50 days never ever get it

Civ II - AWSOME Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you don't have a PC for gaming, this is the next best thing. Civ II is a great game and the Play Station version is spot on.

This may be the ultimate strategy game of all time and it definitely translates well on to the Play Station format.

OK

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: October 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

At first its a good game. But in the end it gets really boring. Its not grood enough to buy. DONT BUY IT!!!!!!!

you can become king of the world!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I give this game a bit over 3 and a half stars. I've never played the PC version but was turned onto this version by Civ devotees. In the game you contol a civilization from 4000 BC-2020 AD and make decisions based on how you want to your empire to grow (much like others reviewers have said). Most likely you are familiar with the basics so I'll cut to the quick. Sports and strategy games are my favorites. They just entertain me more than mindless kill frenzies (although GTA is a truly entertaining series). This game is a fine stategy game and I will some day check out the (suposedly superior)PC version because I enjoyed it so much. That said, the graphics border on being quite lame and at times (especially when other empires are integrated as you move along) game play seems to slow to a halt. You can also master the lower difficulty levels in no time and the whole thing could become boring if you just need to see blood and crash cars. Yet, there is something about this game that keeps bringing me back and I don't even know what it is. It can be great fun (especially with a few cd's in the changer to distract you from the length of the game) and it is one of the best games I've ever played. Why??? All I know is that it's more addictive than chocolate covered crack and a few dozen times more entertaining(and healthy). I'm currently trying to ween myself off of it because it can just eat up the hours. Maybe there will be an improved version for the PS2 that can rob me of even more of my free time. (There is a cheat that allows you unlimited cashflow: name a city _CasH and enter the H while pressing the R1 button at the same time. Try it without the cheat for a while,as the stuggle is much of the fun. Then use the cheat to make the rest of the world your plaything.)

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