Civilization II modder’s work featured in PC Gamer special report
PC Gamer has highlighted Blake and Metro’s Civilization II crossover mods, preservation work, and campaign to bring Civ II to modern storefronts.
Category Archives: Civilization II
Command & Conquer Tiberian Africa Scenario Remaster
CivFanatics user Blake00 has released his Command & Conquer Tiberian Africa Scenario for Sid Meier’s Civilization 2. His remaster takes Wonx2150’s original Civ2 CnC Africa scenario containing CnC1&2 units and overhauls its graphics & expands the unit lineups using assets from CnC2 Tiberian Sun and some of the best CnC fan projects out there! Many parts of Civ2… Read More »
Sid Meier’s Civilization II 30th Anniversary Celebration
A few years ago we celebrated Civ1’s 30th at CivFanatics and since time flies when you’re having fun playing Civ, it’s now Sid Meier’s Civilization 2’s 30th Anniversary so it’s time to celebrate again! Civ2 was the result of Brian Reynold’s genius taking Sid Meier’s brilliant formula to the next level and beyond turning Civilization from a one hit wonder… Read More »
Play BirdCiv, an online Civ2 version
Our user hibiird has been playing around with the programming language Scratch, and has programmed an online version which adheres rather closely to Civ2. He has released the first version of it, which is not yet perfect, but is playable with all features, like building cities, improving tiles, resarching technologies and fighting wars. If you want to have… Read More »
A trip down memory lane: Hodadian Award – Pride of the World – April, 2000
Our moderator Quintillus has done some internet archaeology, and has stumbled upon a range of artefacts from the year 2000. Apparently civfanatics has won 2 prizes anno 2000, and he wondered about the context for these prizes. He dug out a range of old civ fan sites, as well as some of their history. If you’re interested in… Read More »
Civ Video Series Ep 04 – Civilization 2 HD Tour With Mods & Scenarios
5 years ago for Civ1s 30th anniversary we posted Blake’s video here about how to play it in HD with the best mods & scenarios and now as we close in on Sid Meier’s Civilization II 30th anniversary the time has come to do the same for Civ2. In the intervening years Blake has painstakingly searched, rescued &… Read More »
Civ2: Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Scenario Mod
Years in the making CivFanatics user Blake00 has gone public with the v1.1 release of his & user MetroPolis’s Heroes of Might & Magic 2 total conversion scenario modpack for Sid Meier’s Civilization 2. Since Sept was the 30th anniversary of Heroes 1 he also made his HoMM1 graphics addon pack available earlier than planned too. Almost every… Read More »
25 years of Civfanatics – a retrospective – UPDATE: Also Civ4 anniversary
Time flies, when you’re playing civ, and the same applies when you are browsing the forums! Today is one of the days which can be considered the birthday of Civfanatics, and we turn 25, which is in the age of the internet nearly biblical. For this occasion we have written a retrospective, which hopefully includes the most interesting… Read More »