Civilization: Call to Power

The Good
After playing Civ 2, and then playing this, you'll notice a complete overhaul in graphics. The terrain and models look much better than Civ 2. There are a TON of new units and governments and wonders and other stuff. You can't really say Activision wasn't trying. There is some really nice wonder movies. The game has a very satirical sense of humor and will make you laugh out loud at some points with the funny units. Like having televangelists be people with TV's for heads.

The Bad
Although i put the graphics in the "good" section, they are also a libability. Load the game and you will be assualted by bright, garish colors that are almost painful to look at. The interface in a word, sucks. Instead of the beloved cty window, they put all these sliders and buttons on the bottom of the screen. Trying to select units and cities is difficult and you'll click a bunch of times to try and select it. They even ruined how you move units. instead of the arrow keys, you have to click where they move, which causes many accidental clicks. The game is very slow. Even at the beggining. It takes forever to build units and improvements. Although it's at least reasonable in the begging, as the game progresses, you will begin to see glaring problems. Musketmen and phalanax will defend against fighter planes. Machine gunners will take down robots and tanks. When at the end of the technology tree, units and wonders become ridiculous. You'll be assualted by televangelists, lawyers and mind controlling ads. The Eden bombs (or whatever) will completely remove a city and all the improvements. Wonders will destroy all nuclear weapons, put super powerful shields around all your cities and cause all unhappy enemy cities to join you. Speaking of stuff like roads, etc. THEY COMPLETELY RUINED IT!!! Instead of just having a settler build roads, you have to allocate some of your income to public works and then build it when you finally get enough. So, in the beggining, you can build almost no roads or irrigation. Finally, it is really annoying how for each government type, there is some limit to the amount of cities you can have or else most of your cities revolt.

The Bottom Line
YUCK!!! Go buy Civ 2 or 3.