New Atari Games Revealed

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Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:45AM from the go-macedonia! dept.

Thanks to HomeLANFed for the news that several new Atari games have been revealed on the official site. These include the action title "Chronos", and the much anticipated Civilization IV.

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Anyone else... by Lendrick · 2004-10-21 05:52 · Score: 2, Interesting

Did anyone else think that someone tried to implement Civilization on an Atari 2600 cartridge as a joke?
1. Re:Anyone else... by gl4ss · 2004-10-21 06:11 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  nope..
  
  but do you know what's amazing?
  civ1 only needed cga, 640kb and 8088 cpu to run(not sure if it required hd too), and gameplaywise the newest variants aren't that far off from it.
  
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Re:Civ IV by Daetrin · 2004-10-21 06:30 · Score: 3, Interesting

With a new title! "Almost as good as the last one!" Which was almost as good as the last one..
Actually, if you'd been paying attention to previous news on the subject, you would know that a more proper title would be "As different from the previous game as we can make it and still call it Civilization," which will doubtless please some people and cause them to declare that it's the best Civ other while enraging others and causing them to declare that it's the worst Civ ever.
And generally speaking, the majority of people seem to agree that Civ2 was a big improvement over the original Civ, while opinion is split on whether Civ2 or Civ3 was better.
And in other news, as the updated article now says the games are no longer listed, which makes sense since as far as I can tell the list consists entirely of already released games.

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Re:Civ IV by great+throwdini · 2004-10-21 09:37 · Score: 2, Interesting

...and Alpha Centauri remains the best of any games spawned out of the series.

Though, in my opinion, it was by far the easiest of the bunch to "win" against AI opponents. The buggiest, as well. The unit customization was an interesting feature to add, but I think, in the end, it was simply something that the AI couldn't effectively cope with (among other things). More fun than Civ III, but pretty flawed in terms of balance.
Re:I've been saying for the longest time by curtlewis · 2004-10-21 11:57 · Score: 2, Interesting

It's not the same Atari. The original Atari folded for good in the mid to late 90s. Somehow, these pretenders managed to snake the name.
Re:Civ IV by Daetrin · 2004-10-21 12:12 · Score: 2, Interesting

and Alpha Centauri remains the best of any games spawned out of the series.
Well that goes without saying :)
It might be nice to see a sequel to Alpha Centauri, however they'd either have to stick to just updating the graphics and AI or redo the entire thing from scratch. The old storyline was great, with compelling voice acting for the various quotes and other story bits and Baraka was a gold mine for the video clips.

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