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A weak effort

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 30 / 34
Date: November 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was hoping for something like the classic Balance of Power or a strong geopolitical simulation like Hearts of Iron, but this isn't it. Gameplay is weak, with just a number of sliders you move around in some vain attempt to optimize the system. But you aren't given enough information about how the system works in the game or the manuals to make this interesting. It's not that the game is hard -- you can easily get your country in a stable and successful state -- but it's not very interesting. The military parts of the simulation are no better.

Even with the latest patches, the game has stability and graphic issues. I also came across several misspellings in dialogs and descriptions, not a serious issue, but it does detract from the overall experience.

Good idea but poorly realized

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 30 / 34
Date: November 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Super Power 2 is a well built geo political simulation. The player can choose which country to control and guide it from a political, economical and military point of view. It is either possible to play a game without a specific objective or to choose predifined scenarios with a goal, for example guide Turkey to meet the economical requirement to join the European Union. However, I don't recomand this game for the following three reasons:

1) although the simulation is interesting it is not very involving

2) the graphics are extremely poor

3) the game, after a while, is affected by bugs that make it impossible to go on playing and even to save the game.

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.

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.

bugs anyone---bugs no more!!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: November 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A major issue I have with this game is the fact that reccomended system requirements are 512 MB of ram. Minimuim is 256. It runs really badly at 256. The game is a brillent concept, especially if your into geo-politics. You get a real kick out how the game develops(classical realism-hence unlikely). But be warned, this game should come with a can of raid. Update----the game is now usable due to a number of updates which have been made avialable at the Golem labs site. I give it 4.5 stars now.

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

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.

Fun but buggy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 17
Date: October 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well this game is fn i have to say that i like these type of games. It has a great wealth of knowledge about real world countries in it based as of 2001 but thats about it and is great fun to play before the bugs kick in. First bug i noticed was the sound the sound just started to loop could never figure out how to fix that with out restarting the game. Next is saving bug once i alrady saved a game once i like to keep games named the same but doing 2nd and 3rd saves at time really is a mess the game would crash and could never keep a nice game going for more then 6 years in game. Another bug i found is the research bug is still here fromt he orignal at times itll say you have not enough research in a area becuase its grayed out yet you have to have at elast a one in everything when ya start. The final word is they sent out a phase 1-2 beta for sell it should of went through more testing before released to the public and itll probley have lack luster support like the first one

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.

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.

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