I love the strange "event" sound, the little bleeps and bloops of the interface, the "pew-pews" of the weapons, and the fantastic voice acting. I've had this game installed on one computer or another since I bought it retail back in '99. It's a work of art. No other Civ game ever matched it for me, no matter how far graphics have come in the last 25+ years.
I loved that system. One of my favorite techniques in the endgame was to attach a colony pod to a missile unit. You could then drop a city wherever you needed it behind enemy lines and get your injured units inside quickly.
The AI never could figure out how to deal with that strategy.
The one complaint about sound design is how the background music works. I think it starts playing when you’re not active, but on any given playthrough, it never gets a chance to trigger.
There are separate soundtracks for each faction, I think.
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The sound design of this game was so good. Such a superb game.
I love the strange "event" sound, the little bleeps and bloops of the interface, the "pew-pews" of the weapons, and the fantastic voice acting. I've had this game installed on one computer or another since I bought it retail back in '99. It's a work of art. No other Civ game ever matched it for me, no matter how far graphics have come in the last 25+ years.
100% a masterpiece in every respect. I think they innovated the upgrade and piece together mechanic which was very cool and addictive.
I loved that system. One of my favorite techniques in the endgame was to attach a colony pod to a missile unit. You could then drop a city wherever you needed it behind enemy lines and get your injured units inside quickly.
The AI never could figure out how to deal with that strategy.
Don’t know how that never occurred to me! I always put drop pods on them.
“Don’t go, the drones need you. They look up to you!”
The one complaint about sound design is how the background music works. I think it starts playing when you’re not active, but on any given playthrough, it never gets a chance to trigger.
There are separate soundtracks for each faction, I think.