Customer Reviews

Civilization Call to Power (Jewel Case)

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

This game was not made by the creator of Civilization, Sid Meier, and it shows. The AI is shoddy, the interface isn't what it should be, and the game just doesn't feel like Civilization. For me, the worst part is the map generator. It's always putting continent-sized swamps and mountains everywhere, so that half the map is uninhabitable. It just doesn't feel like you're playing on a real world. Plus, you can't use pre-generated maps (at least, not easily).....In addition to all that, the units will drive you crazy. All of the "special units" are only visible to certain otherunits. So if you want to defend against slavers, or spies, or televangelists, etc, you need to have a different anti-special unit for each of them in each of your cities. Ugghhh!
Before Civ III came out, I would get this to tide me over until it was released. But now that Civ III is out, don't even bother. Just get Civ III, you'll be much happier, believe me...

I don`t think I`ve ever played a game as involving as CALL TO POWER. I`d make myself a cup of tea , light a cigarette and put the game on , instantly the cigarette stays in the ashtray , the cup of tea gets cold and undrunk as my entire mental being focuses on the game. I`ve lost count of the number of hours I have sat in front of my computer playing this game , reality and the world outside just disappear . My all time favourite computer game and one I would recommend for everybody intrested in stratagy games

I have to strongly disagree with most of the reviews here. I bought Call to Power last year - my first experience of a Civilizaton game. I struggled with the tutorial as it seemed so complicated and put it aside for a while. A few months later, I had another go at it and after persevering I got totally addicted. I've spent too much time playing this game. Weekends, evenings - I've had days off work and wasted them playing this game.

You can imagine then how excited I was reading reviews here saying that Civilization 2 was so superior... I eventually got round to buying Civ2 and it's like Call to Power but ten years less advanced. The landscape isn't realistic enough. In C2P, the landscape is very real and you feel like you're actually building in a desert or in a jungle. In Civ2 the characters are just person shaped blobs while in C2P, the people are ornately drawn and properly animated instead of pathetically sliding from one square to the next.
For this reason, I've abandoned Civ2. Maybe one day I'll get past the graphics and enjoy the game but so far, I remain to be convinced that it is superior to C2P.

For those of you that have never played a Civilization game, it is a strategy game in which you start off controlling only a simple band of settlers. As the game progresses, you choose places to build your cities, what is built in each of them, your type of government, and your foreign policy. Of course, you're not going to start off in modern times (unless you use an editor), so you have to decide where to guide your resources: should you jump head-first into the scientific stream, leaving yourself open for attack, ignore science and dominate the world with an iron fist, act as passive traders with other nations, or anything your heart may desire. Ultimately, you end up forging the history of your people; it's up to you if they emerge victorious, or disappear in the chaos of time.

I found this game to be really dull. But the music and little drawings that play while installing it were fantastic. For the money I'd say the best use for the CD is listening to the music which has sort of an African motiff.

I just bought this game a couple of days ago..I'm still trying to get through the tutorial. Apparently there is no way to get past level 2, as you are not allowed to progress until you've completed the step that is prompted by the tutorial. In my case, I have repeated the same step over and over and over, but I guess it must be a glitch in the game or something, as it won't go past this step. The interface is absolutely impossible to figure out, even with the Tutorial. Anyway, this could have been a great game, as it contains massive info about history and civilizations, etc. which is more interesting than anything I ever studied in a history class, but playable? I don't know.

It's a sad comment when a classic game is succeeded, several generations later, by a 'sequel' that is considerably harder to play and much more annoying in interface and controls. Don't buy this. Please, don't subject yourself to it. Buy Civ2 - which is similar to this, only not broken and far less annoying. Buy Civ3. Buy Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. But don't buy this. The pathing is a pain, you can't get to the controls for your cities or your units, and it's just generally one of the few games I ripped out of my CD drive and threw against the wall in pure frustration.

I got this game after getting hooked on Civ I and Civ II. Wow what a disappointment. I haven't tried Civ III yet but it HAS to be better than this. The AI is not intelligent by any means. The graphics are OK. But the game just bogs you down with tedious fine tuning of all your cities. And having to send caravans to your own cities is just silly. Roads should allow trade automatically.

overall, don't waste your time on this game.

This is not Civilization Call to Power. This is CTP II. I wanted CTP (original) because is allowed you to operate in space and build flying storm troopers. This version has done away with those types of advances. I was very disappointed because I had search long and hard for a vender that was selling the original CTP. This vendor claimed to, and the picture shows the original, but the original is not what I received!!!

I bought Call to Power, after having read many reviews of the previous Civ games, all of which gave them high reviews. Now I wish I hadn't. At the beginning I was hooked, I played it all the time. I was conquering the world, me and my vikings. My nearest neighbours (Genghis Khan and Co.) were annoying at best, when they broke our treaty, it was my excuse to wipe out their Civilization, haha. Then it was time to explore and develop. In the wonders of the world race, I was easily beating the Brits, who came to my attention when they started to cause uprisings in my Cities. I decided to load up my troops and fighter jets and go crush them, and the Arabs (well they were in the way). The Arabs were easy, having only desert tiles, they lagged far behind me and fighting them was easy. Within a few turns half of there Civ was mine.
Then it happened. All of my old main well established cities, very high happiness ratings, turned into other Civs'. I was left with my troops that where outside of the Cities and the crappy Arab ones I had just taken over. On top of that my forces in Briton were getting smashed. My fighter jet was gunned down by a Musketeer!?! My Commando soldiers were loosing to Romanesque soldiers. I had to turn my forces against my former Cities to regain them. But in the next turn after they where re-conquered they became yet another Civ!?! Thus I turned it off and never played again. What is the point of getting the fighter jet if a Musketeer can shoot it down. Clearly the makers of this game have never seen Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom, or they would know that a guy with a gun will not have any trouble against a guy with a sword. An illogical game at best, get Age of Empires or Civ III, but skip this one.