Colonizaton 2 on the way

[Adagio]

I believe so... I hardly even believe a late 2005 release date...

[Dis]

just toying with my emotions.

actually, I have never played the first one. Is it any good?

[Brent]

I think I'd say Colonization 1 was better than Civ 1 and at least more interesting than Civ 2. But then I never played Civ 1 much. But Colonization 1 had a cool different trade system, a kind of SMACish unit system, and some other neat features.

[Jamski]

This was so my joke, but I was going to do "Civ4 cancelled"

-Jam

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Dissident
just toying with my emotions.

actually, I have never played the first one. Is it any good?

Well i liked it as much as Civ1, but never enjoyed the prospect of subjucating the native americans, this aspect always detracted from the fun for me.
The music was excellent, loads of period pieces and classical tunes(well it was very good on the amiga, not sure about the pc's at he time?).

[Dis]

so I take it this game can't run on windows XP?

I would like to play it.

[Alex]

Originally posted by Dissident
so I take it this game can't run on windows XP?

I would like to play it.

it won't run on win xp, but you can do it using DOSbox

They say it is fully supported using the program.

[Brent]

If there ever is a Colonization 2 (maybe it really will wind up being next), you really should be able to play as the Natives and fight off the Europeans, or maybe play as the natives without any Europeans in the game.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Brent
maybe play as the natives without any Europeans in the game.

That wouldn't exactly be a game of colonization then, now would it?

[Brent]

hmmm... one native group colonizes the others?

Maybe the Europeans could be placed on the map of America and the "Native" homelands could be off the map.

And who says everything you can mod the game into has to fit the name of the game?

[Urban Ranger]

My initial thought was "April Fool" before I opened the thread.

[Bkeela]

There are some things that shouldn't be April Fooled about.

[Snotty]

Originally posted by child of Thor


Well i liked it as much as Civ1, but never enjoyed the prospect of subjucating the native americans, this aspect always detracted from the fun for me.

But that was the best bit! Play the spanish, get that founding father guy (all you warmongers know which one I mean) and then you get more treasure than you can shake a stick at! Indians schmindians, any Col game has got to let me subjugate the inca and steal all their wealth

[RGBVideo]

You mean the one with which you could ship gold without taxes, Pizarro? Getting fountain of youth with the Spanish is a must, otherwise you should've been playing the English ($$$ is nice, but in the end you need lots of pop to beat your way towards the independence).

[Dinner]

It seems like Sid has run out of ideas and is just recreating his old titles these days. Still, I loved Colonization and will buy the next one.