What version is Civilization Call to Power?

[nuck]

I think it was the third in the series that I have bought, but is this board for the same game? So then Call to Power 2 would be Civ 4?

 

[Portuguese]

Welcome to CFC.

As for that type of questions about that game, please go to:
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22

And discuss that game in that forum to avoid more confusions.
Yours Portuguese veteran, Richard Magellan

 

[TruePurple]

Well call to power isn't civilization. From what I understood, Its a copy cat game that took many of civs concepts and of course its title. Thanks to some lawsuit or other legal action call to power dropped civilization from its name. Only early versions of it contain civilization in its name. Now its its own series with a number 1 and a number 2 now.

 

[nuck]

Interesting and now as I look at the box I see Sid's name isn't anywhere on it. No wonder I don't like the game as much It looks like Activision owns the knockoff and they licensed from Hasbro or whoever has Sid's rights. It is odd because if you go on the Activision tech support site it also lists tech support for the other Civilization games so the two companies may be linked.
I had not bought Civ 3 specificaly because I was a bit disappointed with CTP but looks like I may have to give it a look. Thanks for the help.

 

[TruePurple]

Might want to try a demo or a friends copy or something. Civ 3 has some interesting stuff, especially interesting is tactical resources. Also interesting is workers taking population.

Otherwise its rather sideways move from civ 2. Some stuff better. But I think when making civ 3 they decided simplest was best. Which they took a step too far. Large grid squares, simplified terrain, well not much different then civ 2 (larger grid then civ 2 I think though) but nothing like the nifty terrain complexity of alpha centuari.(a good spin off of civ 2) Other little stuff like the unit attack/defense system and hp based on skill that screams oversimplified to me. Few game mechs of civ 3 are truly revolutionary in any ways.

I've heard civ4 is in the works. You might want to wait till it comes out. I feel like maybe I should have. But its all personal preference. Which is why you want to try it out for yourself before you buy it.

Oh, if you do buy it, find and buy the original game and the conquest expansion separate. Don't bother with play the world, its in conquest. Its generally cheaper then buying civ 3 complete.

Also, reading the forum for CTP, seems a number of people liked CTP2. Worth a look maybe.

 

[angrybowen]

I noticed that some sellers on Ebay and Amazon, especially in Europe, deliberately mislead people by advertising CTP2 as Sid Meir's Call to Power. Sid, of course, had nothing to do with it.

If you have Ctp2, this may interest you.

http://www.theagesofman.net/index.html

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Otherwise its rather sideways move from civ 2. Some stuff better.

I'm a bit tired of that comment. Yes, for Multi-player, Civ3 is indeed a side-step from Civ2.
But, Civ3 has a challenging AI. That makes Civ3 a far superior game.
Civ2 Deity=Civ3 Monarch