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Civilization: Call to Power

Civilization: Call to Power is a turn-based empire building game. The players start a civilization in the stone age and lead them to the future through science, diplomacy, war, trade, and other actions…

67 1 March 1999 ESRB E

Civilization: Call to Power is a simulator developed by Activision, released 1 March 1999 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Civilization: Call to Power is

Civilization: Call to Power is a simulator game developed by Activision and released in 1999. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Civilization: Call to Power is a turn-based empire building game. The players start a civilization in the stone age and lead them to the future through science, diplomacy, war, trade, and other actions. Eventually, the player will be building colonies in space and cities in the ocean if the player can survive.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Civilization: Call to Power holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 1999 averaged 72, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Civilization: Call to Power launched on 1 March 1999, within three weeks of Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill and Syphon Filter. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Restoration of Erathia, Final Fantasy VIII, Silent Hill, Syphon Filter.

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When did Civilization: Call to Power come out?
Civilization: Call to Power was released on 1 March 1999 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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