Not really ready for a succession game yet. Still playing my first game in it
So far, it seems to build further onto Civ 3, but after seeing where they went wrong in Civ 3 (that being focussing mainly on war mongery and having alot of odd bugs), and seeing what made Civ 1/2 so great. Civ 2's just an updated version of Civ 1, with better graphics, so that counts as the same, with Civ 2 being the better one.
What I'm missing, is the throne room/palace building, and making caravans that can help speed up wonders. Also, the wonder movies still can't top to those from Civ 2, although I suppose those were a bit too big of an expense, so can't expect anything as cool as those back.
What I love in this over Civ 4, is the way you can make your own government, how you can see what's strengthened/weakened your international relations and the cultur part of cities (which's heavily improved over Civ 3, and's how I recently weakened Brittania, by splitting them up and absorbing their border cities), and how you can level up and specialize your units.
I've noticed a few minor things... researching some technologies're said to lead to this or that building/technology... which I already got when I'm able to research the technology. Bit of a bug?
Anyways, this game kicks serious behind, but still leaves room for improvement. Still definitely's worth its money, even if it's just for the title/main menu song
Got that one playing for two days now. One thing... the damn thing got me absorbed til 4am last night, and had to get up at 7 :whistle: