Black Ace
Trooper
I've spent the last two days playing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. For those of you who don't know, Sid Meier is the guy behind the Civ series, and this is what he was doing while his lincense for the name Civilisation was mistreated by the guys who made Call to Power...
Alpha Centauri is pretty similar to the Civ series, but it has a few up points. The story is about the crew of the UN starship Unity who leave earth in 2060, heading for the nearest star, Alpha Centauri (btw, earth was in deep shit by 2060). When they get there, the reactor malfunctions, the captain's assasinated and the crew splits into factions, not by nationality, but by ideology.
It's a very very interesting game, you can see the crew put a lot of research into it... considering that the entire tech-tree should include mostly future techs, they did a pretty good job at imagining stuff. Plus the ecological twist of the story is awesome.
The reason I'm playing it is because i mostly use Ubuntu (linux) now this was one of the few "cool" games i found to be working for linux. If you like Civ, most probably you'll like this one as well
Alpha Centauri is pretty similar to the Civ series, but it has a few up points. The story is about the crew of the UN starship Unity who leave earth in 2060, heading for the nearest star, Alpha Centauri (btw, earth was in deep shit by 2060). When they get there, the reactor malfunctions, the captain's assasinated and the crew splits into factions, not by nationality, but by ideology.
It's a very very interesting game, you can see the crew put a lot of research into it... considering that the entire tech-tree should include mostly future techs, they did a pretty good job at imagining stuff. Plus the ecological twist of the story is awesome.
The reason I'm playing it is because i mostly use Ubuntu (linux) now this was one of the few "cool" games i found to be working for linux. If you like Civ, most probably you'll like this one as well