Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (PC Games, 1998)

This is an amazingly fun game that changes each time you play it. I have already worn out one disc through play. It combines factors of discovery, strategy, factions and warfare. Highly recommended.

A great AI makes this game a 100% New Experience every time . The map never repeats at all , the rotateing algorithyms are great for their purpose and the game is so dynamic and has so many options that it is a wonder it was created at all . A true Top Level Classic in every way . techtech10

I BOUGHT IT FOR MY UNCLE WHO DOES NOT HAVE EBAY AND HE WAS VERY HAPPY WITH IT. I WOULD BUY THINGS FROM THIS SELLER AGAIN IF I NEEDED TO. IT WAS A PLEASURE DOING BUSINESS WITH THEM.

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I was looking for a civilization type game and I ran across Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. It plays very similar to the first civilization with a a deeper amount of unit types and civ advances. The basic story is that you are one of 7 factions that left earth on a colonization mission to alpha centauri. There's a problem with the ship and you are awaken early and all 7 factions leave in seperate escape pods. You begin your new civilization and explore the planet. Eventually you run into the other factions and choose to live in peace or go to war. There is a native lifeform to the planet that tries to control the growth of your colony as well. It's a great strategy game. I have enjoyed playing it. If your a civ addict and like Sid Meier games. This is for you.

CD was in excellent shape. No scraches. Arrived timely. The game ran perfectly on my computer. My experience with the purchace of this product was good. I waould us this seller again.

For an older strategy game, this one was very cool. I liked the way the tech tree worked, and that you could steal technologies from others. I still have this game and plan to play it again soon, after I finish some other games that I am playing now. The graphics are nothing special, but the ability to build custom units is very cool.

What I was impressed by most; was the excellent condition of a used disk. The easy of purchasing with PayPal & timely delivery was likewise excellent.

Alpha Centauri is a sequel to Civilisation II, and in this respect, the graphics are quite dated from our modern perspective. And yet.... Alpha Centauri is one of the few computer games to actively work on a story, on philosophy and genre at the same time. The player is taken to the world of 2100, where a small group of colonists ust managed to escape the wastes of an apocalyptic earth, on a ship to the next Star system, Alpha Centauri.
But the intricacy starts there: the player gets to choose from seven unique factions, all with (sometimes too) believable, realistic ideologies, and guide their faction's destiny, taking on the guise of one of the charismatic leaders in the game. There is technological advance to be seen through, which leads humanity's survivors to the very peaks of progress, to transcendence and immortality themselves, but there is also a contest to be won against the other factions, as rivalries over faction ideologies break loose. And then there is the Planet itself. Most background stories of computer games are barely sufficient to keep the setting interesting and believable, some do not even achieve that. But Alpha Centauri's setting shows true creativtity and even genius, when building a complex, realistic world of alien lifeforms and planetary consciousness, all set alongside regular quips ranging from Aristotle to Zarathustra, showing the philosophical dimensions that humanity has opened. This game is a stand-alone. It is not only a game, it has the potential to become a vision, something that might as yet be unique in the history of computer games: a work of art.