Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

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Customer Reviews:

To Time Consuming; Annoyingly Long Game Length 12 to 25 hours until finish; [Posted on 2007-05-20]
The artistic renderings some are quite good; it is sometimes better to just watch the movies (secret base project completions); the game length of play is annoyingly long;

But if you play for an hour or so once in a while you can gradually see how it develops over time;

They spent a lot of time making the game; I like it best of all the civilization builder games by Firaxis;

In spite of long game length of time playing; I think it was well done artistically and the game play is quite good;

One of the best turn based strategy games [Posted on 2007-05-29]
This is a classic game. It is one of the definitive best turn based strategy games ever created.

Alpha Centauri is a Sid Meier game, although it was designed by Brian Reynolds. It takes a lot of what Civilization had at the time (like Civ3 or 2 was the last Civ game to come out before this) and added much more depth to the game world. Just the details like videos and quotes for technology advances. You could create your own units, so I had crazy stuff like troop transports that can make orbital insertions, or insanely expensive aircraft which can ignore all base defenses. I even upgraded the supply crawlers to move faster and be better than relying on terraformers to make a base more profitable.

The best thing this has over Civ is that it takes place after Civilization, in the future. So you are actually discovering new units and technologies instead of the same old, same old: start with cavemen, move to the Castle age, Industrial, and finally Modern age. Theres none of that nonsense. Its science fiction and even has a storyline which unfolds as the game progresses.

Still the best, after all these years [Posted on 2007-07-11]
This is still he best Civilization game even though it is not called that. I own all Civs and all expansions and while I like Civ IV immensely, this is the most playable. The factions are truly different. Playing with Gaia, for example, requires completely different strategy. The units can be designed as you wish, a feature that doesn't exist in any other version of Civ. You can create your own "flying laser Bronco" and give it your own name. The victory conditions are all truly reachable. The graphics show a bit of the game's age but are still very acceptable. The production queues are easily manageable and the AI for production control is easily controlled making it the best version to manage large civilizations and not having to worry about little details and focus on the game itself.

GREAT GAME [Posted on 2008-04-05]
The graphics are great for their time, not bad at all even though its old. The gameplay is great: turn based strategy. I have spent way too many hours of my life playing this game! On top of that, it is really cheap here on amazon. I lost my first copy, so I bought another one, that is how much I like this game. Similar to other Sid Meier strategy games like civilization.

Apha Centauri [Posted on 2008-04-16]
I bought this game at a EB store. It was one of the most interesting civ games I have ever played. It had verry good game concpts and I played for hours on end. And that was about 7 to 10 years ago. I still remeber playing it. But then again I like all civ games. It got 4 stars over all. But I only got 3 stars of fun out of it. I finaly got burnt out on it and traded it. And I have nothing but good memories from playing it. Planting forest and reaserching biomorphic fugi. And the wierd mind worms which took the place of barbains. Differnt factions such as chairman yang of the hive and more cool stuff.

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