
Civilization is Addicting!
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.
Pros
+This game has so much going for it. The length of gameplay depends on your difficulty setting. Chieftain (2-3 hours), Warlord (2-4 hours), and King (4-6 hours) are all the settings I have played. Of course, of the four methods to win the game (Economic, Cultural, Technology, or Domination), I prefer Domination, which requires the most time. It feels so good to destroy the enemies cities one by one, or to launch an ICBM and destroy their main military production city.
+This game is all about multitasking Science, Culture, Construction, Food, and Military Conquest.
+The cartoony graphics and cool sound effects rock. Your advisors and the barbarians are so funny. They say all these nonsense words so enthusiastically! They offer no help (unless you read the subtitles), but are fun to watch.
+Your opponents are fatally optimistic. You can decimate them down to their last city, yet they will still threaten you with taunts like, "The days of your civilization are numbered," and "You are no match for the might of our armies." It's hilarious.
Cons
-King difficulty setting is described as "Fair, but challenging." It is NOT! It is totally biased toward the Computer Controlled Player. For example, if you have 18 attack and the computer has 18 defense, 9 times out of 10, you will lose. It's makes me so mad. Or if you have 20 defense and the computer has 18 attack, you will lose. If you have equal or slightly higher attack to the computer's defense, you will always lose. It should be 50-50, but it's more like 10-90 in the computer's favor. Pure BS. I have attacked with units four times more powerful than the computer's, and my units still take serious damage. I have not played as Emperor or Diety because the skewed advantage is probably even worse there.
-With multiple military units, the computer does not let you select adjacent units by region, but rather by order of creation. When you have 25 armies on the map, it can be very aggravating to locate the one you wish to activate because you have to skip around 20 times to find the one unit. I had to learn to use the L3 stick (magnifying glass) to search for units instead.
-The game will sometimes jump away from the city you're working in because it assumes you're done after one action. I really hate that. Sometimes it jumps to the oppposite side of the map. It wastes a lot of time.
-This would be a great family game if it weren't for the over-pronounced female figures. Catherine, Cleopatra... I'll leave it at that.
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