| Sid Meier's Civilization II took an amazingly balanced strategy game and somehow, despite all odds, made it bigger and better. For the sequel, the difference was in the details... and boy is there a lot of details. Amazingly enough, in a game with seemingly infinite choices, Civ 2 doesn’t require you to memorize a manual or micromanage. The game’s intuitive interface makes handling 6000 years of global domination a breeze without having to worry about the little things. The choices Civ 2 offers are remarkable: you can take the world by force, perfecting your combat skills, use diplomacy to unite the nations, or focus your efforts on a way to just get the heck off the planet, among countless other options. The game even provides you with advisors (in the form of FMV clips which were all the rage in 1996) whose unadulterated goofiness could temporarily take your mind off the conquest at hand. Civ 2’s brilliant cohesiveness and innumerable permutations make it a game that can’t easily be put down, or forgotten. |
[]Super Mario Bros.
[]Tetris
[]Civilization II
[]The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
[]Super Mario 64
[]Half-Life 2
[]Super Metroid
[]The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
[]Final Fantasy III (US)
[]Resident Evil 4
The original Sid Meier’s Pirates is on the list at #14.