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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.

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

Not as good as PC version

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Let me start out by saying that I am a huge Civilization fan...but....the Playstation version does not hold a candle to the PC version. The PS screen is cloudy and difficult to see, especially your own cities growth numbers. It's difficult to determine whose winning a battle as the stamina bar is impossible to see. My absolute biggest problem w/ the PS version is not having "auto" control over settlers. On the PC game you can set settlers to auto so they go around building roads and mining etc.. You have to do it all yourself on playstation. Do you know how boring it is to build 5,000 roads w/ 20 settlers?? Some people want to micromanage every aspect, but there is zero strategy to be gained from controlling settlers yourself, zero. Why take this option away? I think this explains why they never made another version for the playstation. Civilization is a game that apparently must be played on a computer.

Addictive Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I'm a history nerd (and I'm sure my professors would love to hear that). So, naturally, I love CivII. Yes, the graphics are not all that great and the music is incessantly repetative. I like to change the music to fit the mood of my civilization, though (like changing it to a "war-like" song when I'm at war and a more "peaceful" one when at peace). But when you get past that, you have a really good game.

Also, if you have zero patience, this game is not for you. My friend played it once and was bored around 2300BC. Sometimes the action IS slow as you wait to get advances, are waiting for a Wonder to be built, etc. However, once things start moving (you encounter other civilizations, you're able to start exploring the world, etc.), you won't be bored.

I have to agree with the other reviewers: CivII is really addictive. I've spent hours playing it and have been completely oblivious to the passage of time. It's a lot of fun to work at being the best and the brightest in the world (or at least your game), although I also love the strategy involved in waging war. I've both conquered the world and made it to Alpha Centauri (and even got some future technologies along the way).

Because of CivII, I've become addicted to the "Civilization" series. I got CivIII, and that too is fun (and slightly more challenging), but in the end I always go back to CivII. Despite it being an older and clunkier version, it's still among my favourite games of all time.

Elvis on the council????

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I originally rented this game out of curiosity, and quickly got hooked! Ended up buying it because a 3-day rental isn't enough time to win here. The gameplay can take a while (depending on level chosen) but if you are looking to get your mind off the everyday routine for a couple of hours, this is a game that delivers. There are 21 different civilizations to choose from (Romans, Greeks, Mongols, Zulus etc.) that have no superiority over any others initially. After setting your tribal preferences you start off in the year 4000 B.C. with one settler unit and 0 gold pieces. How successful your tribe is depends largely on the site you choose for you first city and the development of the resources around it. Send out more units to explore the surrounding area and build more cities, and repeat. Every so often you will get the opportunity to meet with your "high council", who inform you how you are doing. One of the advisors is an Elvis impersonator who had me cracking up with laughter many times with his insights on citizens' happiness levels. Not to mention the satisfaction of attacking any other civilization that ticked me off at times. Definitely a game anyone into strategy games should own.

strategy pure and simple...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If your looking for a strategy game tht challenges you... this is it. Its not pretty to look at, terrible music, and this game takes a long time to beat at its maximum level. I found it challenging and my competitive nature would not allow me to let go until i figured it out. However this is number crunching at its highest point. Its easy to go thru the menues but difficult to master the systems. This game is only for strategy freak like me who love a challenge if your looking for action, graphics, or storyline dont bother. The price is right though, but Romance of the three kingdoms, nectaris, or command @ conquer, or even panzer or allied general have a little more to offer.

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.

this game is fun but better on the computure

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game was a lot clunkier then the computure version and you where unable to get actual world maps or scenarios it also took up almost an entire memory card but if you would rather play a game on PS then PC then this is the game for you

Clumsier than the PC version

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A fairly faithful adaptation of the classic computer game. Players start the game as one of a number of civilizations and attempt to grow and survive until they have wiped out the other civilizations or colonized another planet.

Players build new settlements and then build different buildings and military units to help their civilization grow. Combat, diplomacy, and civil engineering all combine for fascinating gameplay.

My only real problem with the console conversion is that the main graphics are rather clumsy looking while most of the incidental graphics are taken straight from the original game. The game controls are also clumsier than they need to be. Obviously a game controller is more limited than a full keyboard, but I don't think the controller is used to full advantage. The controls mean that the length of a game is longer than in the PC version.

Although a little slower and clumsier than the original version, this is still an enthralling game with a very high level of replayability.

Addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is simple and the graphics are a little clunky, but it is addictive. For hours and hours, you get caught up building your civilization and pummeling civilizations around you.

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