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Legendary designer Sid Meier presents the next evolution in strategy games, with the most addictive, compelling gameplay yet. Explore the alien planet that is your new home and uncover its myriad mysteries. Discover over 75 extraordinary technologies. Build over 60 base upgrades and large scale secret projects for your empire. Conquer your enemies with a war machine that you design from over 32,000 possible unit types.
Design Your Own War Machine
Custom build fighting units that meet your mission's specific needs, or accept your governor's recommendations.
Diplomatic Relations
Dynamic personalities react individually to your actions. Your diplomatic decisions dictate your path to one of five ultimate resolutions.
Infinitely Replayable
A random 3D world generator, unlimited strategies, five paths to victory, six levels of difficulty, seven unique factions, fully featured map/game editor, and a whole host of customisable options ensure unlimited gameplay.
Includes the Alien Crossfire Expansion Pack
Adds 7 new playable factions, new technologies, new secret projects, new base facilities, new weapons, armour, special abilities and an expanded storyline.
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69 of 70 people found the following review helpful
By NeuroSplicer
TOP 100 REVIEWER
Fun:
5.0 out of 5 stars
In 1999, in the wake of the the huge success of Civilization II Sid Meier & Brian Reynolds released a logical sequel: a colonization ship, Unity, is launched from Earth on the path to self-destruction. An inboard malfunction and assassination of the captain divides the colonists into several competing factions. Planetfall is carried out under emergency pods - and clearly not according to planed. And the fun begins...
The environment on planet Chiron is not very friendly. Not only do ground tiles need to be terraformed before put to use, but the native lifeforms are not terribly friendly either. Of course the real threats will always come not from beasts but from fellow humans. From technophiles and warmongers to religious zealots and Ludditic environmentalists, you will have enough choices to find your favorite faction.
This is one of the best 4x-TBS games ever produced (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit & eXterminate) and no amount of somewhat dated graphics can reduce its gameplay qualities. The tech-tree is rich, the units well designed and the improvements perfectly balanced. This one of those timeless games that prove how bad an idea Limited Installations truly is!
I must have being looking for years to find the expansion to the original game (Alien Crossfire) at a reasonable price. This bargain-priced package includes both - and it is DRM free!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
The environment on planet Chiron is not very friendly. Not only do ground tiles need to be terraformed before put to use, but the native lifeforms are not terribly friendly either. Of course the real threats will always come not from beasts but from fellow humans. From technophiles and warmongers to religious zealots and Ludditic environmentalists, you will have enough choices to find your favorite faction.
This is one of the best 4x-TBS games ever produced (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit & eXterminate) and no amount of somewhat dated graphics can reduce its gameplay qualities. The tech-tree is rich, the units well designed and the improvements perfectly balanced. This one of those timeless games that prove how bad an idea Limited Installations truly is!
I must have being looking for years to find the expansion to the original game (Alien Crossfire) at a reasonable price. This bargain-priced package includes both - and it is DRM free!
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Scritty
Amazon Verified Purchase
Fun:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Shame this looks so dated and has so many hurdles to jump through to get it to install on Vista or Windows 7.
It does install by the way, and plays very well. It has a totally different feel to Civ games while being obviously closely related. THis might just be the subject matter, but it feels very fresh after trawling through the restrictive tactical options available in Civ 5 for instance.
It just look terrible stretched on a 23" monitor (windowed mode has real issues for me) so bad that it's hard to make out from the lego block sized definition what is supposed to be what at first.
I played it for a good few hours, then stopped, wishing Sid would remake it for modern machines so my old eyes could get to grips with it.
It does install by the way, and plays very well. It has a totally different feel to Civ games while being obviously closely related. THis might just be the subject matter, but it feels very fresh after trawling through the restrictive tactical options available in Civ 5 for instance.
It just look terrible stretched on a 23" monitor (windowed mode has real issues for me) so bad that it's hard to make out from the lego block sized definition what is supposed to be what at first.
I played it for a good few hours, then stopped, wishing Sid would remake it for modern machines so my old eyes could get to grips with it.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Dave
Amazon Verified Purchase
Fun:
1.0 out of 5 stars
It is advertised as Windows 7 compatible, however after a full day of trawling through various forums and support pages to no avail. I have installed this game several times with various patches, add on's, compatibility boxes ticked and editing .int files I am no closer getting this to run. I am not pc illiterate but nor am I a programmer but this is not an 'out of the box' product. I am now unsure if the challenge of getting this to work outweighs the actual game play? guess I'll never know.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
this takes work to get it to load!
the game is old, designed for windows 98. it has a patch to let it be used on XP, vista and windows 7, but the patch alone does not work. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ms. F. H. Hathaway
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent
Both discs work fine. It's an awesome game with multiple scenarios and endless possibilities. It stretches the mind and bolsters the intellect.
Published 3 months ago by Teejay
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent purchase
Brilliant been trying to get this for years and now I wish I had got it years ago Alpha Centauri is the best of all the Sid Meier games
Published 5 months ago by Dave Fairhall
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Classic
What a game..... the perfect strategy/building game for any serious likeminded gamer. Excellent graphics, great gameplay with great opponents to interact with! Read more
Published 7 months ago by M. Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not for Windows 7
I love this game and bought it from Amazon ONLY because the description said it was for Windows 7. The copy I had was only for Windows XP and did not load properly on my new PC. Read more
Published 7 months ago by L. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent colonisation game with tons of options
Made by the same developers as Sid Meier's Civilisation, this Turn-Based Strategy game released in 1999 gives the player the task of building a nation in the 22nd century. Read more
Published 8 months ago by A Filipowski
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great vintage game but don;t buy this.
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri thought not really part of the Civilization series of games served as the perfect inheritor of it's playstyle and features, and for most players is as... Read more
Published 11 months ago by AC-Fan
1.0 out of 5 stars
Won't run on modern machines
Such a brilliant game so such a shame it won't run. Tried it on a Windows 7 machine and a Windows XP - with and without the patches provided. Game will not run. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Sarah C
4.0 out of 5 stars
Old good times!
Since sid meier hasn't done remake of his space-civilization game(Though Civ4 mod final frontier was good one), we just stick to the old one. Read more
Published 14 months ago by J-P
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Game
I am a big fan of the Civ series and in my humble opinion this one is the best. I see some people give poor feedback because they are not able to understand it, although to me it... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Dahdread
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