Sid Meier's Civilization II is an empire-building turn-based strategy game. The game starts at the Old Stone Age in 4000 BC. Your tribe begins with a Settlers unit and has no knowledge about the surrounding area. As you found new cities and explore the surroundings, you may find hostile barbarians, villages, and other competing cultures. Once you have discovered another culture, you can adopt a policy of co-existence by signing a permanent peace treaty with that culture; you can even form a military alliance. But for those who like to conquer, you will find great satisfaction in deploying more than 50 different military units and crush your enemies.

However, military is not the only aspect of this game. You will also need to concentrate on trade, science development, and make your people happy in order to avoid civil disorders.

Ultimately, you need to make a purchase decision on Civ II Gold. Multiplayer games are strong and the map editor gives a lot of options for extended gameplay. While it has tremendously limited options in terms of the Wonders and it is extremely disappointing new units and hierarchies must be played on the scenario maps only, you can mess with the order and dependencies of the tech tree, rename things, and use new art for units in ways that offer new challenges. The Fantastic World scenarios can be a hoot and in some cases cause outright laughter in their odd conceptions. And unlike the forthcoming Age of Empires and other Mac ported titles that use Microsoft’s unsupported on the Mac DirectPlay networking protocol, you can actually duke it out with PC and Mac players (at least those with the same version numbers.).

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So is the whole thing worth it? That depends. If you haven't gotten anything in the Civilization series, and you have no plans to get Alpha Centauri (either for price or hardware requirements), by all means do so. If you have the original Civilization II and nothing else and you've still been playing the game, you may want to shell out $20 or $25. And if you've got everything already.you've probably already bought it.

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So what are you doing reading this? Set up a game already; I swore I was going to bed at three this time.