UCC and MGE. What's the difference?

[Christmas]

Is there any difference between MGE and UCC, other than one is a "UK" version and the other a "US" version? Canadians, Europeans, Aussies etc... What version do you get to buy?
I'd assume they're compatible games, right? Internet games are possible with the different versions, yes or no?
So what's the difference?

[Doctor T]

As far as I heard, they were exactly the same game, but with different names, for some stupid reason. They should be compatible, but I haven't heard evidence either way yet. Try CivLeague, they should be able to help, or the Civ2 forums

[Felch]

What does UCC stand for? Multiplayer Gold Edition I understand. . .

Ultimate Civilivation something?

[vovan]

Doctor T 20-01-1999 16:55
Felch X 02-04-2003 16:08

Pardon my french, but... WTF?

Oh, and I always thought UCC stood for Union County College, New Jersey...

[Felch]

BC pointed out this thread in the Community forum. I didn't find it on my own.

[Zopperoni]

UCC = Ultimate Civ Classic (Collection)

[yaroslav]

Yes, they're compatible. The UCC has been sold in Spain the last week, with a newspaper, for only 4€ (4$).

The only difference, I believe, is that UCC doesn't include the CiC and FW scenarios that MGE includes

[CiC = Conflicts in Civilization
FW = Fantastics World,
they are both previous versions of Civ2]

BTW, this thread should be in Civ2/General, in my humble opinion

[Az]

stop bumping ancient threads.

[Mercator]

UCC stands for Civilization II Ultimate Classic Collection.
It's a European version of MGE, with the box cover being a greenish Maya calendar or something. It did include the CiC and FW scenarios, that's why it's called a "collection", after all.

AFAIK, aside from MGE and UCC, there was only one other multiplayer release, namely an add-on called Civlization II Multiplayer. That one obviously didn't include anything CiC or FW.

Those are the only releases I know of anyway, there might be some more, e.g. a stand-alone multiplayer release without the extra scenarios, and undoubtedly a whole bunch of different versions varying per region of the world.
I don't think there are other versions, though, considering there are only two patches. One for MGE/UCC, one for the add-on, so in any case, all different "versions" will boil down to one of these two.