i think the game sucks and is less of an advancement over Civ II then the creators would make out. i argue this on four points.
1.) The game is slow, which would be forgiveable if the other three slights were not so bad...
2.) The ability to create true scenarios is a truncated, even a castrated ability compared with Civilization II. There is NO WAY to create a scenario. You can't choose where you want Civ's to appear on the map or begin a game at any point other than the blind beginning. This means that you can't create WWII scenarios, Alexander the Great Scenarios, etc. There is not even an editor for the Mac yet, but i have seen it on the PC and it is laughable in its complexity as it is in its uselessness.
3.) You can't choose your starting locations. i find it especially annoying that when i play the Egyptians i am in North America battling the Incas or in Australia battlling the Americans right next to me. This is nothing short of ridiculous. In Civ II if you chose the world map you could at least have your civ start at a historically accurate location and have other civs around you that were historically accurate as well.
4.) i think the politcal screen is useless as well. This has been touted as a great advancement over the previous game. i wish they would have went with the superb screens found in Alpha Centauri. If it is so powerful and advanced, why is it that a player can't negotiate peace between allies. In addition, why can't i engage in a military alliance without going to war? This game is a ridiculous hasbro version of the original--made for children with gummy hands and empty heads. The game is dumbed down and i hate it. i am sick of reading all the rave reviews about the game written by people who obiously never played the first two versions of it.
5.) In addition to the above, PC games are not able to be played on the Mac.
i have the PC version of the game which i purchased before the Mac version was available. Although i can open the games that were saved on my PC, when i save the games again on my Mac the game crashes when i attempt to reopen them on my Mac. This, to me, means that the games are incompatable.
Originally posted by Gottesfreunde i have the PC version of the game which i purchased before the Mac version was available. Although i can open the games that were saved on my PC, when i save the games again on my Mac the game crashes when i attempt to reopen them on my Mac. This, to me, means that the games are incompatable.
E-mail me one of these crashing save games at bradman@pobox.com and I'll take a look. I haven't had any trouble using save files interchangeably with the PC version. In fact, I do that all the time to verify if bugs that are reported on the Mac version exist also on the PC.
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