Alpha Centauri is a "time warp" game. You start a game at 10:00pm play a little, look at your watch and find out its 3:00am and you still play a little more.
Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs, and Brian Reynolds, the original creators of Civ I and Civ II are actually working on Civilization III and prequel called Dinosaurs! both of which will be interelated with each other and Alpha Centauri. And of course, All of them will be availible for Linux at some point...
And for official geek approval see what Userfriendly has to say about Alpha Centauri here.
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Alpha Centauri is a "time warp" game. You start a game at 10:00pm play a little, look at your watch and find out its 3:00am and you still play a little more.
Sid Meier, Jeff Briggs, and Brian Reynolds, the original creators of Civ I and Civ II are actually working on Civilization III and prequel called Dinosaurs! both of which will be interelated with each other and Alpha Centauri. And of course, All of them will be availible for Linux at some point...
And for official geek approval see what Userfriendly has to say about Alpha Centauri here.