This is not a game to fill a spare few minutes - this is a long-term strategy game which will eat up weeks of your life. But it's worth it :-) ----------- The basics, and setting up: The setup is very simple and intuitive but feels annoyingly slow after the first few times, as you repeat most of the settings you used last time. It's only a few minutes though. A single game takes about 4 hours to complete at an absolute minimum - and can take weeks. You can save the game to a memory card as long as you're still using PS1 - although you can use the game in a PS2, it will no longer save which I have found to be a bit of an ...  Read the complete review

Two years ago this game nearly wrecked my life by making me fail my GCSE's. Luckily I came back to my senses in the nick of time and managed to put it down long enough to revise and pass them. So on getting my new PC at Christmas I thought I had better buy the new version for the PC, except by the time I got round to it I then thought I should leave it until after my A-levels. So I finished last Friday, and then on Saturday I ordered Call to Power 2 (the latest Civ game) from Amazon. So here I sit waiting for it to come, but I admit I couldn't wait so I sneaked an hour (or five) on the old Playstation this afternoon. And it just reminded me how great it really ...  Read the complete review

This game can steal hours and hours of your life, in two completey different ways. As a big fan of "god" games I bought civII shortly after it first came out. After a couple of hours of working out the controls and reading the manual, I was just about realising what the game had to offer. Huge world maps, hundreds of things to reasearch and build, and extremely in depth game play. Before I knew it, several days had passed by and i had got quite far with my civilisation. Within a couple of weeks I had successfully reached one of the game goals, and although I had the choice to carry on with my civilisation, I was anxious to try the game from start ...  Read the complete review

Civilization 2 is probably the best ever strategy game you will ever play. The object of the game is to choose a civilization to be such as the Romans, build cities on a world map and conquer the world. Once you build your cities you can build within each city. Things you can build include units such as warriors to attack other enemy cities, buildings to increase wealth and growth and other various things. You must learn new technologies in order to progress and develop better buildings in your cities. There will be other civilizations in the game who will also be trying to become more powerful than you. You can become allies ...  Read the complete review