Game Informer - My allied city-states are lined up behind me, ready to endorse my election as the inaugural Secretary-General of the United Nations as soon as we cut the ribbon on the proper facility for such a momentous treaty. Before that seminal construction project has any chance of being completed, though, the Chinese spaceship will be on its way to Alpha Centauri and my diplomatic achievements will be forgotten as the world rallies around the Empress’ technological prowess. The mighty Ethiopian nation has one chance to forestall the Chinese space program long enough for the UN to finish construction: an amphibious invasion of Beijing, fought with inferior technology an ocean away from their homeland. There’s no way this could possibly go wrong.
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Philip Boyes:
When I was a kid, I played a lot of Civilization 2. I played a lot of strategy games in general, but having a deep love of both history and sci-fi, the epic sweep of Civ 2 from prehistory to the stars held a particular appeal. I loved taking my little people from their huts and ziggurats to the world of science and advanced space-flight.
