what do you mean "during highschool"... between still playing table-top DnD 3e, Neverwinter Nights, and Play-by-post, I think I play now more than ever...
I started Playing Civ I in high school and it was by far my favorite game of all time at the time. I remember reading articles about it in computer game magazines and obsessing over the strategies and debating them with my oldest brother. If you can pick up "CivNet" on ebay or at a used software store, its probably one of the better ways to play multiplayer since by now any machine will make it run screamingly fast.
Civ II was my least favorite, some of the units seemed gimicky and it just seemed much much easier all the way around- plus, if you isolated yourself on a continent and built up on a certain tech-tree there was no way to loose. That kinda broke the game for me.
CiV III goes back to Civ I imo, but expands the excellent options with a bit more realism to the geography and resource use. Its also not as easy to win without cultural interaction- infact its probably pretty impossible at the higher levels. It seems that Civ3 is the most balanced version that I have ever played.
Forget the "Call to Power" crap, its just useless.
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what do you mean "during highschool"... between still playing table-top DnD 3e, Neverwinter Nights, and Play-by-post, I think I play now more than ever...
I started Playing Civ I in high school and it was by far my favorite game of all time at the time. I remember reading articles about it in computer game magazines and obsessing over the strategies and debating them with my oldest brother. If you can pick up "CivNet" on ebay or at a used software store, its probably one of the better ways to play multiplayer since by now any machine will make it run screamingly fast. Civ II was my least favorite, some of the units seemed gimicky and it just seemed much much easier all the way around- plus, if you isolated yourself on a continent and built up on a certain tech-tree there was no way to loose. That kinda broke the game for me. CiV III goes back to Civ I imo, but expands the excellent options with a bit more realism to the geography and resource use. Its also not as easy to win without cultural interaction- infact its probably pretty impossible at the higher levels. It seems that Civ3 is the most balanced version that I have ever played. Forget the "Call to Power" crap, its just useless.