Civilization Call to Power (Jewel Case)

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Product Details

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• ASIN: B000060NVT
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: March 5, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,629 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Welcome to Civilization: Call to Power. Build an empire to span history from primitive beginnings into the sci-fi future of 3000 A.D. Lead your turn-based conquest on land, to the recesses of the ocean, and into the vastness of outer space.

Civilization: Call to Power is the next generation of world-building strategy games, offering more unique features than any other game in the genre. It features a 7,000-year time span reaching from primitive history to the future realms of science fiction.

The experience is further enriched with unique nonmilitary strategies, vivid graphics, an engaging multiplayer mode, and breakthrough empire management options. Civilization: Call to Power provides both new concepts, like military readiness, and new time-saving interface tools that simplify empire management, such as an advanced queuing system that frees you up to focus on the big picture.

Discover who among your friends will rule: Go head-to-head in multiplayer world building via the Internet, a local area network, modem to modem, or e-mail. But remember--in war, even friends can become enemies.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Go for Civ III, instead, July 2, 2002

By A Customer

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...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Way To Stop Smoking, April 17, 2002

By	Theo Robertson (Isle Of Bute , Scotland) - See all my reviews

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

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Civ2, October 25, 2002

By	"james575" (London, UK) - See all my reviews

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.