Galactic Civilizations Ultimate Edition

by Stardock

Product Features

• *** Rare Ultimate Edition ***
• Never play the same galaxy twice!
• Contains the original game and expansion
• Multiple paths to victory!
• Fantastic award winning space war game!

Product Details

• ASIN: B000OPVSUW
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,805 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Galactic Civilizations I: Ultimate Edition combines the award-winning Galactic Civilizations with the Altarian Prophecy expansion pack to create a stellar adventure. It all begins in 2178, as humanity creates an invention that will lead to galactic domination: hyper-drive. As Humans take part in a race to colonize the galaxy, other civilizations are discovered with the same mission. Can you lead humanity to galactic dominance or will you sit on the ruins of your entire race? The year is 2178. But our story really begins fifty years ago. For this is when humans first came into contact with an alien civilization. The faint signals of an Arcean probe were picked up on sensors in Australia. It didn't take long for a very basic level of contact to begin between Earth and Arcea. It was the beginning of our interstellar education....

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good game but dated, June 25, 2008

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nurnberger (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Galactic Civilizations Ultimate Edition (CD-ROM)

This game is very similar conceptually to the original Civilization series of games. Someone who plays Civ III for instance should be able to pick this up quickly. However, since this takes place in outer space it doesn't make much sense to to play on a two dimensional map the way it would playing on a terrestrial Civ map. On the bright side, this is still a very sophisticated and challenging game; you have a lot more comtrol over the economy of you civilization and a much larger tech tree than in Civ III. The game definitely looks dated and needs a three dimensional map for it to really make sense, apparently the second installment to this game is much better so I will be trying that. But if you want a challenging game that you can play on any computer, this is worth checking out.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game., May 7, 2009

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John W. Shermer (Korea) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Galactic Civilizations Ultimate Edition (CD-ROM)

I played this game out at a patrol base back in OIF 1 (2003). What a great game for whiling away some down time. It is very similar to Civiliztion in that it's turn based and stratigy, but what stuck with me in the game is how your moral choices changed more than just the way other player treated you, it twisted your whole tech tree. Good players got great bonuses in stellar management and terraforming, while bad players could build deathstars and other nefarious things.

Another good thing was the way that they handled the end game portion of a game. In Civ, the endgame can get pretty tedious, with a bunch of micro management, but in this game they got away from that as the AI players turned against the most powerful player (you, usually).

My only regret is that they never ported this game to the Mac. I left the PC a long time ago, and my only regret is not being able to play this fantastic game.

5.0 out of 5 stars Stardock - Thanks for all the fun and Cock eyes!, September 29, 2011

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Mr. Michael Najarian "Duftopia" (Glen ROck, N.J. USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Galactic Civilizations Ultimate Edition (CD-ROM)

"I played this game till my eyes Bled". I never got to that point but of all the strategy games I played I must admit this was the first one that hurt my eyes, something about the concentration and focus makes this game wary on the eyes.

Strategy and Si -fi galore, I became a STARDOCK fanatic after getting this product and I was introduced to it thru Amazon Thanks guys ).

Stardock had a good distribution and presentation system when I first picked up this game but now I am so confused as to there buy and credit and versions that I am literally afraid to upgrade IF an upgrade is actually available, I cannot tell in fact they went the "Steam" route and I simply will not compromise my Business machine with unmanageable game portals so in that area I give them an F.

LUCKY for me this game was invented before the portals and it was playable online which is a no-can-do now for me.

The AI is good enough to kick your A$# and make you a bumbling idiot by 4 am, you need to balance your budgets to keep your empire on course to a reasonable victory and I am not talking blowing up the universe and subjugating every species (although that's fun too). You have several methods to victory and you can even be behind everyone in every field of conquest and pull out a surprising victory with keen strategy and clever tactics

With diverse research trees and commodities its like Civilization in space, all technology is sub divided into regional areas on concentration making the memorizing everything less complex.

TWO very nice features are the SHIP design and AMPLE Build in flowchart system, your ship designs make modding very interesting, information is easily read and strategies can be formulated based on them in a simpler fashion.

TRY the Star Trek mod , The BABYLON V mod, DUNE and STARWARS are also out there.

I play two primary games for my Brain Damage - Heroes III - V and Galactic Conquest, wow its a treat to run when you are encoding a Blu-Ray or DVD for hours upon end, or uploading a 50 gig website, they both multi-task well.