![]() ![]() The player must, throughout the game, determine the strategy and tactics of their civilization's growth and development. The gameplay is typical for a turn-based simulation game. Accordingly, the series motif is that the player assumes the role of a real-life civilization like the Greeks, Japanese, Sioux, Mayans, and so on, and they attempt to bring their fictional version of this civilization to greatness over a series of turn-based moves until they have reached the end of the game, where they will be scored on various criteria to determine how well they did. The Civilization series is a pioneer of the 4X genre (an acronym for eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate), a subgenre of the simulation genre typically involving the simulation of cultures and leadership of the same. While somewhat dated in terms of mechanics and features, many things that would be integral to later titles were established in this one, and it's still an excellent game even now. Sid Meier's Civilization II is one of those games, considered one of the best in the series decades after its first release. Some games will always stand the test of time. I also recommend FreeCiv for a free and open source alternative should this prove too hard to acquire legally. For detailed advice, guides, tools, patches, and other useful things needed for making this game run well, I advise visiting ![]() The technical score will reflect getting this game to work on modern computers as of the time of this writing, with the proper patches and fixes to make it work on modern PCs. Note: This review is limited to covering the stock campaign content of the Multiplayer Gold release, this does not address the Test of Time release, or non-historical expansion pack content. Number of Players: Singleplayer, Multiplayer Civilization II: Multiplayer Gold EditionÄeveloped By: MicroProse Software, Inc., MPS Labs
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