For what it was at the time, it's hard to look at Civ 2 NOT being the best product of the series. That being said, I thought Civ III was far more "newer" than Civ IV when you compare them to their respective previous entries.

With all THAT being said, Civ IV: Beyond the Sword has so much new things added to the gameplay that it is for sure the definitive version of Civ IV and probably the best of them all.

[Edited on January 25, 2008 at 8:18 PM. Reason : I knew I'd spell his name wrong]

1/25/2008 8:16:43 PM

i still need to get beyond the sword.

civ 2 was great. i still wish they would bring back that system of civil wars. if a capital was sacked or more than half the cities were in revolt then there was like a 10% chance it split into 2 civs half and half.the missile system was also great. you could wage a war with just submarines and cruise missiles. then send helicopters and paratroopsers.mech inf was too dominant AND WHY CAN'T BATTLESHIPS ATTACK CITIES ANYMORE???????????????????????????????

1/25/2008 10:21:37 PM

Not TECHNICALLY a Civ game, but Alpha Centauri.

1/25/2008 10:40:52 PM

^

1/25/2008 11:10:12 PM

I came to the thread to post ^^

1/26/2008 12:11:02 AM

Colonization!

1/26/2008 12:25:53 AM

Haha this thread inspired me to find my old discs of the game+expansion.

1/26/2008 12:25:54 AM

II is still the best, despite the flaws. Civ 3 killed naval warfare

1/26/2008 12:35:56 AM

colonization was fun but simply put it was too fucking hard. plus you didn't really get to do what you wanted. yes, I understand it was kind of like being a colony--no, exactly like being a colony--but goddamn. I didn't play games to be subjugated.

1/26/2008 11:35:41 AM

Empire Earth 1 > *

1/26/2008 11:39:50 AM

only played civ 4. i binged on it for like 4 days of almost non stop playing and haven't played since. it was fun though.

1/26/2008 2:37:48 PM

Whoa, check it out!

Free Colonization for JVM:

http://www.freecol.org/

[Edited on January 26, 2008 at 7:35 PM. Reason : ]

1/26/2008 7:35:30 PM

I like 3 the most I think...I did miss the Wonders movies though

1/26/2008 8:13:46 PM

2 was the pinnacle.

1 was awesome because chariots ruled and the troops marching into a city animation ALWAYS got my blood pumped.

What pisses me off is that they toned down the Civil war probability that could strike if you took a capital city. That had made things interesting.

1/26/2008 8:47:44 PM

i dont understand how people like older versions better, if feel like this game gets better and better with every version thats realeased, all the way through Beyond the Sword.

1/27/2008 12:12:48 AM

I loved all the player-created scenarios for Civ II. It was a sad day for me when my Gold Edition CD cracked.

1/27/2008 1:13:47 AM

does civ4 have a single playing "campaign", or do you just play on randomly generated maps all the time?

1/27/2008 8:47:15 AM

Here is my order on the games by how much time I spent on each:

1. Colonization
2. Civ 4
3. Civ 2
4. Alpha Centauri
5. Civ 3

I swear that I learned more from the Civ series than from any other game I have ever played. I studied the different leaders, and fucking Colonization teaches you about the different Founding Fathers, so that later on in school when we talked about these characters, I knew generally what they were famous for when most folks never even had a clue what their names were.

I still play Colonization on the regular (I throw it on my thumb drive and if I'm in a classroom bored working on a PC, ANY fucking thing can run Colonization) and take a few turns. I want to see two Colonization things. First a new game with Civ 4 style 3-D graphics, and a port of Colonization for a Pocket PC system, so I can play it on my phone.

Also you can download the original game from:

http://www.colonization.biz/

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 10:39 AM. Reason : ]

1/27/2008 10:38:25 AM

^ wow thats odd... CIV 3 is always listed as one of the greatest games of all time (along with 2)




my greatest moment in life was placing a city in panama thus creating the panama canal... its been downhill ever since

1/27/2008 2:00:45 PM

Corruption in 3 was a killer.

1/27/2008 2:02:14 PM

FreeCol 0.7.3 released today.

1/27/2008 3:19:19 PM

I'm a little too young to have played 2, but I've wasted a lot of time on 3 and 4. Also dabbled in Alpha Centauri a little bit. It was kinda fun but I never really played it a whole lot. I liked the technology tree better.

1/27/2008 10:50:57 PM

I liked 1, but 2 was my fav. Then 3, although that corruption was a tough feature.

Never played 4...

1/28/2008 1:38:53 PM

II ftw.

I played 3 & was meh.

1/28/2008 2:33:30 PM