18th August 2005, 8:39 PM
If you want the real sequel to Civ II, get Alpha Centauri. It's fantastic... by the same guy who made Civ II and it shows (remember, Sid made Civ I, Brian Reynolds II and AC, and Jeff Briggs was the main guy behind III... IV I think is Sid, but Briggs is working on it too I'm pretty sure.) ... if only Brian Reynolds hadn't quit Firaxis... I know, Rise of Nations is a great game and RoN2 looks fantastic, so he's still around, but I had to wonder what the next Civ-style game would have been like if he'd kept making them... (though the RTS genre definitely could use some shaking up, and RoN did some of that)