* Pit your strategic skills against Colonization's advanced artificial intelligence. * Discover and explore the Americas or create your own scenario with random map generator. * Play either the French, English, Dutch or Spanish colonial powers each with distinct characteristics and political situations. * Manage your growth, development and trade to create a powerful nation. Only then can you launch your revolution and declare your independence.Ĭolonization, the newest strategy game from Sid Meier continues the great tradition of Civilization. You'll have to overcome your foes with superior military strategy and wily diplomacy. Balance economics, political and military strategy to create your own, powerful nation.īut beware of your enemies! Angry natives and rival powers can encroach upon your territory. Direct its growth, manage its resources and establish lucrative trade routes. Explore new lands and strategically plant your first colony. Play one of four colonial powers as you set sail to discover the New World. The treasures of an entire continent await you.įinally, the much-anticipated follow-up to Civilization is here! Sid Meier's Colonization takes you into the Colonial Era to discover, explore and colonize vast territories that promise both danger and reward. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. but I was just glued to my work laptop's screen playing Sid Meier's Colonization, humming to the music, serenely sending indentured servants and frigates across the map, and enjoying every single minute of it.The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. I should have gone down there, should have been singing along, having a few drinks, making friends for one night. It was Saturday evening, and in the bar below a local band played their last song, a 20 min version of "Bella Ciao", with the crowd going crazy and stomping so hard I thought my room's floor would give in. I'll never forget the last time I actually completed a game: in 2012, I was working abroad in western Turkey, and staying in a rundown hotel room on the seaside, with a defective window having the wind producing an annoying squealing sound, constantly changing its pitch. In the early 2000s on my own, already considering the game retro and myself way too nostalgic for a 20something year old.
Back then with childhood friends in front of a 12" CRT monitor, questioning each other's decisions ("How can you sell guns to the Aztecs?!").
I've been playing this game since I got a PC in 1994.
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