GameSpy writes: "Human creativity is a marvelous thing. Any ordinary cook can take some ordinary ingredients -- eggs, mushrooms, onions, maybe some cheese -- and turn it into an ordinary breakfast. A great chef can take those same ingredients and make a meal that will make you weep with gastronomic bliss. The true masters can take those exact same ingredients, mix them together in different ways and get a dish that's just as good but tastes completely different. That's what Sid Meier did in Colonization, his 1994 classic built on the bones of his previous hit, Civilization. That's also what he's looking to recapture in Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization, a remake that looks even tastier than the original.
Anyone who's played Civilization IV (or glanced at the screen shots) will be instantly familiar with the basic gameplay of Colonization. The game starts in 1492 with a single ship holding a colonist and a soldier discovering America, building a small city and settling in for about 300 years of Manifest Destiny. Players will build new colonies, explore the land, treat with or battle the Native Americans, jockey with rival European colonies, and finally revolt against their mother country to set up a new land in the New World. The difference in Colonization isn't in the broad strokes, but in the fine details. If Civilization was a game about technological progress, military prowess and cultural dominance, Colonization is a game almost entirely about commercial success in which the best mercantile capitalist wins."
Spiffy:
+Lots of commodity-based strategizing
+A nice sense of tension in the endgame
Iffy:
-Lots and lots of micromanagement necessary to win
2K will implement online service changes for several legacy titles, including releases for Windows PC, as a result of GameSpy Technology terminating its online service offerings for video games.
Beginning May 31, 2014, select legacy titles from the Borderlands® and Civilization® catalogs will temporarily go offline while service is transitioned to Steamworks.
GamerDeals.net:
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From now until Sunday, get 75% off Civilization IV and Civilization V games and expansion packs. That means Civ IV is $4.99, Civ IV Complete Edition (both Steam and no-DRM versions) and Civ V for $7.49, Civ V Complete Edition for $12.49, and DLC as low as $0.75."
GameFront, "In an age when even old-school FPS gurus like iD’s John Carmack are defecting to consoles, you can still be sure of one thing: strategy gaming has ever been and will always be the province of PC’s. Whether it’s due to the more cerebral, measured gameplay, or — more likely — the crucial importance of mouse controls, the jump to other platforms is rarely successful. Despite their large market share and stable, unchanging hardware, consoles struggle to sustain a pure strategy game."
I pretty much clicked on this to ensure that Homeworld was included and sure enough it is. I approve.
I never played Homeworld but I'm gonna check it out.....maybe Good ol Games has it for dirt cheap!
Damn it I want to play Homeworld. Why hasn't Relic got it up on a digital distribution service like Steam?!
