Civilization II Gold - free with magazine.

[Bereta_Eder]

For anyone interested, in Greece PC Master or PC Games (forget the name) has Civ II Gold as a free CD.

BTW Does Civ II Gold has the same aggresive stance of the AI that the Civ II Multiplayer has?


(that has got to be the 1st non OT post I've made in the last couple of years )

Maybe it needs relocating

[Dinner]

Paki: You could have posted this in the on topic and gotten a +1 out of it.

[Bereta_Eder]

CRAP!

[Bereta_Eder]

I'm going to buy it nevertheless.
5.9 euros is no biggie.

I'm a bit sceptical as to whether it will have any kind of manual... Propably not. Just in the CD as pdf or something.

Of course I have the original manual still. But Civ Gold has some extras.

Have started playing Civ II a bit lately. Small world, Archipelago, Arid, 3.000 years, Deity and one of the pink civs. (the last to get located on the map)

You have no idea how many times I started on the north pole (and have to walk for ages in hope of a dry land)

[C0ckney]

lucky bugger. magazines can't give away free commerical games on their disks here because of some copyright bollocks

[BeBMan]

Re: Civilization II Gold - free with magazine.

Originally posted by paiktis22
BTW Does Civ II Gold has the same aggresive stance of the AI that the Civ II Multiplayer has?

IIRC the gold version contains CivII multiplayer, so yes

[monolith94]

That's funny - mine came free with an internet connection.

[Bereta_Eder]

I see BeBro, thanks

Cockney, there are some magazines here which have a free game every month. Most are old though and arguably crappy. (The cutthroats? comes top mind. Although I don't know if it's good or bad, just old)

[Bereta_Eder]

I used to buy the Brit PC Gamer (is that the title?). Those guys were funny
Funny reviews of games.

[C0ckney]

yeah i get PC gamer on and off, had a £5 WH Smith voucher today so i got it, only PC mag i ever buy. i'd love it if they gave away a free old game every month, some of them would be ****e, but i bet you find some real old gems.

[Bereta_Eder]

From what I remember they got plenty of demos and some shareware and other stuff on their cover disks, which were interesting too.

These guys really loved what they were doing and it showed

The definition of how a games magazine should be written.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by C0ckney
lucky bugger. magazines can't give away free commerical games on their disks here because of some copyright bollocks

PC Gamer US has given away commercial games before. Granted they were quite old, but so is Civ II. I fail to see why it would be any different in the UK.

[Inverse Icarus]

thats funny, mine came free with a friend i made.

that was civ1, actually.

i legally own civ2, civ2mge, civ2fantastic worlds, civ2 test of time, CTP1, civ3, and civ3ptw.

[MarBaS]

PC gamer has given away Red Alert before as a full game. They have also given away Duke Nukem as a full game

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
PC Gamer US has given away commercial games before. Granted they were quite old, but so is Civ II. I fail to see why it would be any different in the UK.

That's because during the late 80's and early 90's UK 8-bit computer magazines started to come with free (complete) games on a cassette sticked to the cover to attract buyers. A free game every month is a nice way to entice would be customers. These games were usually classics from a few years back, crappy games that are free don't help sell magazines .
Eventually ALL computergaming magazines did this and it started to spread to 16-bit magazines as well. Note that I'm talking about homecomputers (Amiga, Atari ST) not consoles. Gaming companies claimed that this would destroy the market for 16-bit games. In the end a deal with the magazine publishers was struck that they no longer would distribute 16-bit games.