Civilization 2 Space Victory Video (1996, Microprose)

Actually 2 videos after the other. One on the ship to Alpha Centauri being launched, the other of it landing and colonizing properly.

Sid Meier's Civilization II (Civ II or Civ 2) is a turn-based strategy computer game designed by Brian Reynolds, Douglas Caspian-Kaufman and Jeff Briggs. Although it is a sequel to Sid Meier's Civilization, neither Sid Meier nor Bruce Shelley was involved in its development. Civilization II was first released in 1996 for the PC and later ported to the Sony PlayStation.
In 2002 Atari re-released the game for newer operating systems, such as Windows Me and Windows XP.

The Multiplayer Gold Edition was included in the Civilization Chronicles box set released in 2006.

Civilization II is similar to the first Civilization, with some changes to the units, civilizations, additional wonders, tile "specials" and technologies. The graphics (greatly improved with clickable links and movable windows) were changed from a top-down view to an isometric representation. The Artificial Intelligence, or AI, was improved as well, including the elimination of most random events (such as the situation where Wonders of the World were built spontaneously in the original Civilization) by now making the computer player go through the same production requirements as the human player.
Rivers no longer occupy the whole of each tile along its length. The river is just part of each topography square it flows through, adding productive value, defensive bonuses and movement ability.

There are two paths to victory (and bonus points to the score) in this game: to conquer every other civilization, or to build a spaceship and reach Alpha Centauri before any of the other civilizations. The latter can be much more difficult because there are a limited number of turns in the game, which ends in the year 2020. If the spaceship does not reach Alpha Centauri by then, the game will simply end with the current score. The player can continue playing after all civilizations have been conquered, the spaceship has reached its destination, or the year 2020, but there will no longer be any scoring. The sooner a player conquers every other civilization, or the space ship arrives, the better as far as scoring is concerned. However, there are many things that can be done to gain points, so it occasionally is better to hold off victory to gain more points by, say researching extra 'future technologies'.

In Civilization II each civilization was led by two leaders- male and female. All the civilizations from the original game returned along with seven new civilizations (Japanese, Celts, Vikings, Spanish, Persians, Carthaginians and Sioux).

The original game was re-released as Civilization II: Multiplayer Gold Edition, which bundled both expansion packs and added options for networked and hotseat play, and features tweaked AI. However, all of the music tracks that were in the original release of Civilization II have been removed - only some of the "new" ones remain. The tweaked AI is also perpetually unfriendly, rendering most diplomatic functions useless.

Civilization II: Test of Time was released in 1999. It was a stand-alone game with new features, such as redrawn, animated units, support for multiple maps in one game, and some new campaign modes.

I captured this mostly to test out my laptop. I may release the whole soundtrack on YouTube if requested.

Civ 2 Test of Time PC Demo:
http://1de64a41.thosegalleries.com

Civ2 Mac Demo:
http://a0d95870.realfiles.net

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[ecmartz]

Homage to 2001. YES!

[tfan68a]

Still looks like a chocolate chip cookie to me

[chaklong]

SPACE ODYSSEY!

[funkduz]

@leopardhunter99 civ 5 looks rlly rlly stupid

[leopardhunter99]

This cutscene is kind of gay, and I don't care if they took out cutscenes in Civ 5. :P

[SASardonic]

and more than 10 years later those lazy fucks just give us a still screen. :/

[jw16e4]

i never saw this video cuz i never won the space race. i only won the world.

[Tonyhorton55]

Wow, so they make something cool like this for Civ 2, but leave it out of civ 5 that comes out 14 years later? That's BULL SHIT.

[ObssesedNuker]

And than they were eaten by mindworms.

[TheOneLichemperor]

Ah, I remember this game...