CIVILIZATION 2 TEST OF TIME SERIES

The civilizations of the Fantasy Campaign consist of five fantasy races and two human civilizations: The central difference between Midgard and the Fantasy Campaign are the scripted events and premade maps for Midgard. The seven species included each started on a different level. The four maps of the Fantasy Campaign are the Surface World, the Underground World, the Cloud World, and the Undersea World. Test of Time also included a fantasy world modelled after Norse mythology. Victory can be accomplished by sending a spaceship back to Earth, by building a quantum gate back to Earth, or by conquering the star system.

The two species eventually learn to talk with each other and expand to the three other maps, which include the orbital platforms around Funestis left there by the ancient Lalandians, a rocky world called Naumachia, and the center of ancient Lalandian culture, the gas giant Nona. The setup is that the humans along with another species identified only as the 'non-humans' both crashland on earthlike Funestis, the second planet. The Science-Fiction campaign focuses around a mostly fictional planetary system in orbit around the real, nearby star of Lalande 21185. However, on all versions, the 'red' slot for a civilization is always occupied by the barbarians (religious fanatics, barbarians, and guerrillas) The Science-Fiction campaign When one built the Alpha Centauri spaceship, instead of ending the game, it unlocked a secondary tech tree and allowed the player to battle the Centaurians. Test of Time also offered the option to undertake the Extended Original campaign, which was identical to the Original except that the 'pink' slot for a civilization was occupied by aliens on Alpha Centauri. Cosmetically, however, it looked quite different, with all-new art and animated units. Test of Time included a version of the old Civilization II campaign, with only a few minor changes. The Original and Extended Original campaigns The Mirror Newspaper in the UK ran a competition wherein they would give away ten copies of the game to readers who correctly answered a history-related question. It was included in the Sid Meier's Civilization Chronicles pack. It would later inspire the open-source project Freeciv. Microprose's response was to make a spin-off game entitled Civilization II: Test of Time which, like Call to Power, included themes such as the colonization of Alpha Centauri, science fiction, and fantasy. This led to a legal battle between Activision and Microprose, which was resolved with Activision able to make further Call to Power games as long as they didn't use 'Civilization' in the title.

Call to Power was a clone title, which also extended the concept to future space/ocean colonisation.

CIVILIZATION 2 TEST OF TIME SERIES

While the Civilization series had little to no direct competitors, this changed in 1999 when Activision created Civilization: Call to Power.

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