Sid Meier's Civilization II (1996)
Genres:Strategy
Themes:4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:A turn-based strategy video game set around several different historic civilizations.
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It's the first Civilization that I've played on PC (in 1996), it was a lot of fun to try to "break" it just like the first one (go to Alpha Centauri as soon as possible, reach the viewed population limit of 320 million as soon as possible, etc.). But the most unforgettable thing about Civ II are the wonder movies (especially The Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and Adam Smith's Trading Company) and the Council (Elvis!). I'd play it again for sure if it appeared on GOG.
Civilization 2 was probably the very first game I ever saw. I remember watching my Dad play it so many years ago and it was the game that sparked me gaming. This game, along withthe Scenarios and Fantastic Worlds expansion are lodged deep in my brain and something that I love going back to. I love the old units, and the scenarios were also a bunch and a half of fun added on when you got sick of the base game. I still have the Fantastic Worlds disc at home, along with the original Civ II disc (Sadly, I cannot find the Scenarios disc any more) but for me, this game is where it all began for me. The ability to produce units, make war when necessary, build a spaceship... then there's the Videos for the high council (Oh boy, when you descended into Anarchy, that terrified me as a kid!) and the ability to see a special scene to see the view of the city... memories I would love to bring back again. Then there was the 2 win conditions of space win (they made it so you landed a rocket on a distant planet) or the win via global conquest (This also terrified me as a kid), those have stuck in my brain and still do to this day! I would totally get it again and play it again, especially if all the expansions are added to it, and even more so if released on GOG!
This is probably the longest running game I play. I regularly go through the hoops to spin up an old VM just so that I can install Civ II : Test of Time. It is a pain but it is worth it for me. Sometimes I am really just looking for a game I can just relax with and Civ II : Test of Time really is that for me. I enjoy playing all of the different scenarios from Sci-Fi to Fantasy to just the Extended Original. Why do I want it on GOG? Getting it to run on a modern machine takes some work. There are patch projects like TOTP that help add modern niceties but they are buggy at best without running an entire VM. I have bought this game several times through the years and if it were on GOG so I could just click install to play it I would probably buy it again.
Civ II, via my Dad was, realistically, my introduction to computer games as a whole. Long before I had enough understanding to play it myself, we'd slowly conquer the world together. Still in love with Civ to this day but this game is really a distilled, more concise, experience than what the series has become.
I started modding with Civ 2. One of the best games of the Civ series ever! It is a pity, that the dreamlist is not containing Civ 2 ToT, as with the mod TOTPP this even today is an interesting alternative for playing a Civ game.
I want this game on GOG, as there is no electronical version of this game available.
I played CivI on Amiga and CivII on my first PC. It was a leap at its time. The most prominent upgrade which has not been implemented to the game since then, is the advisor council. It was unlike the governments in the current game. Not cartoon figures assigned to cities but real, talking people giving you advise like ministers of your government. I was awed at the defense minister shouting at me in his chainmail suit to attack those b.....s. I still miss it and think that a proper cabinet of ministers is what the game lacks today.
Played it all the time when i was giving halloween candy out and then just got really really addicted to the game. I did get a little freaked out when you to a revolution in your place and all the members of the council get pissed at each other.
My friend LOVED this game, he was totally addicted to this to the point he kept going on and on about it all the time like some kind of feverish rant. So I decided to give it a go and saw what he meant and how addictive it could be, the classic "one more turn" style game.
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