Call to Power II cover art

Call to Power II

Prepare to accept history's greatest challenge - build the world's most powerful empire over a span of 6,300 years, reaching from primitive history to the future realms of science-fiction. Take your place…

90 15 November 2000

Call to Power II is a strategy developed by Activision, released 15 November 2000 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What Call to Power II is

Call to Power II is a strategy game developed by Activision and released in 2000. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Call to Power II is a PC turn-based strategy game released by Activision as a sequel to Civilization: Call to Power, which itself was named after the Civilization series by Sid Meier; this game could not have "Civilization" in its title because the license to the Civilization name was lost.
Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Call to Power II holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 3,250 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 18 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM and DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

Full requirements and PC checker →

What it launched against

Call to Power II launched on 15 November 2000, within three weeks of Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike and Escape from Monkey Island. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike, Escape from Monkey Island.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Call to Power II yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

Know one? Send it in and we will test it →

Screenshots

All media

Quick answers

Call to Power II — frequently asked questions

When did Call to Power II come out?
Call to Power II was released on 15 November 2000 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Call to Power II?
At minimum, Call to Power II needs 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card graphics, 4 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Call to Power II?
The PC version needs about 4 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("4 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

If you like this

Games like Call to Power II

See all