Pyramid Review
Sid Meier's Civilization: The Boardgame
Published by Eagle Games
Designed by Glen Drover
Graphic Design by James Provenzale and Jacoby O'Connor
Illustrated by Paul E. Niemeyer
$59.99
Sid Meier's Civilization is the kind of game that you come home to after a hard day at work and put on to relieve the day's stress with an hour or so of game play. Next thing you know, it is four o'clock in the morning and you are taking it all out on the Carthaginians or the French. The game is the classic "God" game for the personal computer, with untold numbers of players having enjoyed and continuing to enjoy, taking a small tribe of people from their first settlement through to the status of huge metropolises and the possible launching of a colony ship to Alpha Centauri. Civilization has seen three titles under that name, a sequel of sorts in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (also the subject of its own GURPS adaptation), and a rival computer game series in Civilization: A Call to Power. Of course, Sid Meier's Civilization was itself inspired by the classic boardgame of the same name, published by Avalon Hill among others. Now the intellectual property receives the board game treatment once again, but not one that is based upon the classic original published by Avalon Hill. Instead the new game from Eagle Games is based directly upon the classic computer game designed by Sid Meier.
With such titles as War! Age of Imperialism, The American Civil War, and Napoleon in Europe, designer Glenn Drover . . .
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Article publication date: December 20, 2002
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