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Fun for the first week

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It should be stated at the beginning that this is a Northstar protected game, and that Northstar systems do turn Trojan on you. My anti-virus just recently deleted the game and quarantined the executables.

The gameplay is more fast paced than the original, but also a bit more simplified. Gone are the days of setting up Coups in 3rd world nations and controlling their puppet governments, not when you successfully stage one the rest of the world starts attacking you, and the country you over took will just start getting invaded by other countries. Usually Italy, China and Turkey. Playing as a 3rd World nation is substantially harder too as the AI now likes to become imperialistic at random intervals, mostly Poland, China and Turkey, making it very hard to keep a stabilized nation anywhere in Africa or Asia. But its still fun to Nuke the world and watch the fallout destroy continents at a time.

Good Sim

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This a very interactive sim with a steep learning curve. Has bugs, have to download a patch to get past the cd key. Will not appeal to everyone. If you like sims, and you like problem solving (a lot) this is the game for you.

hope they have a sequel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

old software but heard recently somehow. no more support and hard to get a customer service though.
It's Civilizaion style game but it's more realistic.
you will have a problem with installation but you could find a newer patch some where.

Average game, terrible stability

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to like this game. I think that its basic premise is very innovative, and I looked forward to a combo of military strategy and economic managment.
However, this game just doesn't deliver. Bugs ranging from graphical glitches to horribly obvious exploits can be found everywhere. The AI is incredibly stupid. You can get the US to buy 1 piece of your land for trillions of dollars, get people to declare war on Iraq or North Korea just by asking them, and manipulate common markets to make triliions. The only redeming feature is the few diehard fans who are still trying to mod this game into what it should have been in the first place. Unless you are absoltuley desparate for this type of game, you shouldn't buy it.

I've seen a lot better

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: August 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Buggy. This game crashed on me every twenty minutes until I got the patch. After the patch it was nearly impossible to play. Nations would just go rogue and start attacking far away countries. What is the most absurd to me is this game just doesn't take into account the U.S. Navy's sole ability to project war onto other continents. All the Navies in the game are capable of sending their warships all around the world and with enough gun ships, they can sink a U.S. carrier. I've also tried playing as many African nations, and it's nearly impossible, their economies are too small and they have huge militaries they can't possibly sustain. They go bankrupt in a few years. Also, the oddest thing that happened after the patch was the elections. The Republican party started winning. And I don't just mean in the U.S.! Soon the entire world was controlled by the Republican Party. While the idea is kinda funny to me, it's completely unrealistic and a huge bug.
The only fun part is playing as the US and attacking small countries. You overwhelm them so much it's kinda fun. You can take Cuba in a week. But once you get bored having the biggest military, the game's flaws become much harder to ignore.

Frustrating

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: March 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Excellent premise but this game is extremely fragile -- the least memory distraction makes the whole game lock up or shut down, and if you're playing in a LAN, it'll lock up all the computers linked into the game. Too much emphasis on military silliness to sell it to warmongering nerds. The designers would have been better advised to counterbalance the economic and political power and actions in the game, which would be a more realistic real-world scenario than the childish overtemptation for invasion and war found in this game.

The Good, The Bad and The Bugs

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: February 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The concept behind Super Power 2 is great. You can basically take any country on earth and run it any way you see fit. If you want to try to run America as a military dictatorship or if you want to run Saudia Arabia as a multi-party, you can. The options are virtually limitless

You can produce commodities such as grain, meat, energy, ect. You can also build military units and even research new units

You can wage war on your neighbors, and while the battle graphics are a little cheesy, it gets the job done

This is not a game for the casual gamer who is looking for a quick game before dinner. This game is very in depth and demanding and some of the micro-management can become tedious.

Now for the bugs and let me tell you, there are bugs galore. The game is notorious for crashing to the desktop as well as saved games not loading. Even with the patches and tweaks, game stability leaves a lot to be desired. While Super Power 2 is a vast improvement over its predesecor (it does feature online play), with all of the bugs and technical issues, you may wind up wanting to nuke the game, instead of your neighbors

So is it worth $29.95? If it was not for all the glitches, crashes and bugs I would say yes. Until Golem Labs comes up with a solution, I would say to look for it in the bargin bin or 2cd hand

Won't load!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: November 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

No idea if the game works - it won't load on two different computers. I hate it when companies release games that aren't ready for the market.

After patch 1.3, couldn't even run the game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: July 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

At first, this game was "alright", and I must admit that I enjoyed the prospect of leading the world into global nuclear war. However, aside from single handedly conquering the world using "unorthodox" dipolmacy and rising China to the most powerful country in the world, this game is not very interesting. In other words: after about an hour, you're ready for something else. Aside from the lack of things to do in this game, it constantly crashes, and every patch brings a new, interesting set of glitches. At patch 1.3, everytime I tried to run the game, it would ask me to restart to "complete the installation", and I did this several times. I upgraded to patch 1.4, and I had the same problem, so I threw the game away (literally).

Basically, do not buy this game. Don't be tempted by the idea of "controlling an entire nation", because by "control", they mean "change a few values, illegalize a few religions/political parties, and that's about it", and by "realism", they mean "tax the people at 100% because they won't mind". If this is a "realistic geo-political simulator", then we are all doomed. Do not buy this game.

Not Bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: April 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Havn't had much of a chance to get truly into this yet, but it seems pretty interesting.

Combat is lame, and the interface is a bit clumsy, but there seems to be a healthy amount of depth to the sim. The game rewards those who are mindful of their economy, and opportunistic.

Futureshop has it for 29.99 - save your 10 bucks.

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