It’s Life, Jim…
When I was looking around the other weekend for games to fill in an hour or two I came across FreeCiv. It’s a free version of the Civilization strategy games, and got a bit hooked. Unfortunately it was just a bit hard for me to see what was going on, and finding help and up to date guidance was a bit hit and miss.
So I ordered a copy of the latest commercial version, version IV, of the game. Cheap, from Amazon.
It does look a lot nicer, and has a lot more bells and whistles then FreeCiv, which is in no way surprising. FreeCiv seems very close in game play, but if I’m going to be staring at a game for as long as I suspect I will be with this, then I do want pretty!
The game itself is a strategy game where you have to grow a civilization (strangely enough) by carefully using resources, building military units, using diplomacy etc. Just like the real world. Kind of. You can play multiplayer over the net too, but I suspect I’ll be just playing the computer for a while until I get the hang of it all.
When a game comes with a 224 page manual, and it’s all in English, then you know things are a bit complicated! But I like that. Should keep me going though the winter, anyway!