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Slingshot's Impressions of CTP2
So there I am at Compusmart, and about 10 copies of CTP2 are staring there in front of me for only CDN$69.99.
I pick it up, and I swear the face on the box says "you will buy this copy!"
In a panic I put the box back. Time to leave the store...
Three hours later, I'm sitting in front of my computer with a shrink-wrapped copy of CTP2 next to me. I was terrified about opening the thing. Recall that last time the excitement lasted about 10 minutes, and I was out $60!
It actually took me about 15 min of reading the Apolyton reviews before I opened the CTP2 box (thereby making it difficult to return to the store). The thing that got me was Darth Veda's positive spin.
The other thing was the extra PR work that the Actigrammers did on our Apolyton site.
So far, I've played for about 6 hours. It is definitely more immersive than CTP. In fact, the difference is like day and night!
But I still am not sure if it will be as good as Civ II was when I first played it.
To start:
- The intelligence screens do not let you compare your own civ to the one you're looking at. For example, the Germans have a population of 395379. What's my population?
- It is not as easy to figure out what you're producing in each city. You can't easily find out the city's happiness like you could in Civ II.
- Lot's of things are different. To be fair, I'm starting to get the feel of the unit movement commands.
- Overall, the graphics are "cleaner" than CTP
- Sometimes the drag-and-drop goto command doesn't seems to work.
- The army managment thing is taking a while to get used to.
- I'm not so certain that use of the billion mayors is so intuitive.
- It is great to see that ancient time goes nice and slow... after 192 turns it is still 580 BC!!!
*** The greatest frustration is still a feeling not being able to quickly find all the information you need.
*** The greatest relief is that CTP2 seems worth playing. With CTP I gave up after about 10 hours. Gone are the days when slavers and clerics were beating on your door every turn. Gone are the days when every other civ was uninterested in cooperating.
To the noble Actigrammers: THANK YOU!
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Slingshot (edited November 25, 2000).]</font>
I pick it up, and I swear the face on the box says "you will buy this copy!"
In a panic I put the box back. Time to leave the store...
Three hours later, I'm sitting in front of my computer with a shrink-wrapped copy of CTP2 next to me. I was terrified about opening the thing. Recall that last time the excitement lasted about 10 minutes, and I was out $60!
It actually took me about 15 min of reading the Apolyton reviews before I opened the CTP2 box (thereby making it difficult to return to the store). The thing that got me was Darth Veda's positive spin.
The other thing was the extra PR work that the Actigrammers did on our Apolyton site.
So far, I've played for about 6 hours. It is definitely more immersive than CTP. In fact, the difference is like day and night!
But I still am not sure if it will be as good as Civ II was when I first played it.
To start:
- The intelligence screens do not let you compare your own civ to the one you're looking at. For example, the Germans have a population of 395379. What's my population?
- It is not as easy to figure out what you're producing in each city. You can't easily find out the city's happiness like you could in Civ II.
- Lot's of things are different. To be fair, I'm starting to get the feel of the unit movement commands.
- Overall, the graphics are "cleaner" than CTP
- Sometimes the drag-and-drop goto command doesn't seems to work.
- The army managment thing is taking a while to get used to.
- I'm not so certain that use of the billion mayors is so intuitive.
- It is great to see that ancient time goes nice and slow... after 192 turns it is still 580 BC!!!
*** The greatest frustration is still a feeling not being able to quickly find all the information you need.
*** The greatest relief is that CTP2 seems worth playing. With CTP I gave up after about 10 hours. Gone are the days when slavers and clerics were beating on your door every turn. Gone are the days when every other civ was uninterested in cooperating.
To the noble Actigrammers: THANK YOU!
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Slingshot (edited November 25, 2000).]</font>
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