let's act civilized
User Rating: 8.1 | Sid Meier's Civilization II PC
Civilization 2 is the best in the series. You start of the game with some settlers and then you build a city. The city grows, you make new settlers, to make new cities. Soon you'll encounter other tribes with whom you can exchange knowledge, or you can go to war. For war you need military units. You start of with caveman and pretty soon you'll be building phalanx and catapults. There are many diferent units you can build, but to do so you need knowledge so you have to do research. Instead of military you can also provide your cities with all kinds of buildings. You can also try to make a wonder of the world like the great wall of China or the pyramids. These provide your people with special benefits. If you are running this game from the cd-rom you also get to see small videoclips when you build a wonder of the world and you also get to see heralds of the tribes you encounter during the game. The game has a lot of replay vallue and there are also historic scenario's you can play if you are interested. When you play this game the time goes quickly. Not only in real-life, it's a very addictive game, but also in the game. This i find is somewhat of a petty. By the time the Roman centurions arrive you have already invented gunpowder. I think the pace is a bit too fast. A nice thing about this game though, is that it's not too difficult like some of the later Civilizations i have seen with too many too small menus and micromanagement. This game is very playable.
