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CIVILIZATION:CTP PREVIEW
By Markos Giannopoulos
I) INTRODUCTION
Introduction? You really need one? Ok, here goes
Is this the Civ3 we've been asking for? Does it suck or is great? Is it a revolution, an evolution or just civ2 with
16bit graphics? Does it keep the Civ1/2 feeling or lawyers and televangelists destroy the great genre?
Time passed, we've learned a lot about the game and it's features, but without a Sid Meier or a Brian Reynolds to
count on, criticism and scepticism came easy. There were many previews but they didn't go so much in depth and
crucial details were missing to complete the puzzle.
Now, on the exact day of the release, after weeks of playing the game, we hope to give you the real experience of
Civilization: Call to Power.
Liked the intro? :)
II) OPENING THE BOX, INSTALLATION
Actually, the box in our case was just a simple box used for mail services, but the contents were the same: the CD,
the manual(an early version of it) and a big poster with the advances. The manual(will be about 200 pages in the
final thing) covers pretty much everything. It would be good though if there were more details on some things, like
the calculation of damages in combat or the profits from trade inside your civ, as well as some instruction on
modifying the game files. The poster shows the advances, the units, the city improvements, etc, much like the civ2 one,
but it's two sided not one sided. Which means that you can't hang it on the wall and see everything...
The installation is as any windows installation - easy. Two important notes on the setup process. One, the setup
program will check your hardware for the minimum requirements(Pentium 133 with 32MB of RAM), and will give you a
warning if you have something lower. It will let you install it, but the game will be slow. And two, the installation
program will ask you if it should install the movies on your hard disk or not. Movies on the cd means 300MB on your
hard disk, while the opposite will mean an extra 300MB occupied by C:CTP. Also, the game specifically notifies you
that it will require you to have an at least 80MB virtual memory file, so check your settings and the free space of
your hard disk.
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