SuperPower 2 | 
| From: Dreamcatcher Interactive
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $24.83
You Save: $5.16 (17%)
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 9542
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Genre: Simulation Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 1 x 1 x 1
MPN: PCO42450MB
UPC: 625904424501
EAN: 0625904424501
ASIN: B0002D6A4K
Release Date: October 8, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Real-World Data: largest database ever assembled for a computer game, using real-world CIA and US Naval Intelligence data. | | • | 32 Person Multiplayer: play as any one of 193 countries recognized by the United Nations. | | • | Political, Economic and Military Gameplay: The unique gameplay from the original SuperPower has been expanded and more fully realized. | | • | Create Your Own Mods: using the in-box toolkit, easily create scenarios and trade them over the internet. |
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Product Description
SuperPower 2 gives you the chance to control the fate of entire nations. In this global geopolitical simulation, you'll guide a country's political, economic and military development. Build up your nation's influence in the world, while competing with other nations for dominance. Make and break political alliances and wage war, to become a global superpower!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Good idea but poorly realized November 29, 2004
A. Campagnolo (Florida, USA)
32 out of 36 found this review helpful
Super Power 2 is a well built geo political simulation. The player can choose which country to control and guide it from a political, economical and military point of view. It is either possible to play a game without a specific objective or to choose predifined scenarios with a goal, for example guide Turkey to meet the economical requirement to join the European Union. However, I don't recomand this game for the following three reasons:
1) although the simulation is interesting it is not very involving
2) the graphics are extremely poor
3) the game, after a while, is affected by bugs that make it impossible to go on playing and even to save the game.
A weak effort November 3, 2004
G. Linden (Seattle, WA United States)
31 out of 35 found this review helpful
I was hoping for something like the classic Balance of Power or a strong geopolitical simulation like Hearts of Iron, but this isn't it. Gameplay is weak, with just a number of sliders you move around in some vain attempt to optimize the system. But you aren't given enough information about how the system works in the game or the manuals to make this interesting. It's not that the game is hard -- you can easily get your country in a stable and successful state -- but it's not very interesting. The military parts of the simulation are no better.
Even with the latest patches, the game has stability and graphic issues. I also came across several misspellings in dialogs and descriptions, not a serious issue, but it does detract from the overall experience.
After patch 1.3, couldn't even run the game July 19, 2005
Cody Peterson (Mount Vernon, IA USA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
At first, this game was "alright", and I must admit that I enjoyed the prospect of leading the world into global nuclear war. However, aside from single handedly conquering the world using "unorthodox" dipolmacy and rising China to the most powerful country in the world, this game is not very interesting. In other words: after about an hour, you're ready for something else. Aside from the lack of things to do in this game, it constantly crashes, and every patch brings a new, interesting set of glitches. At patch 1.3, everytime I tried to run the game, it would ask me to restart to "complete the installation", and I did this several times. I upgraded to patch 1.4, and I had the same problem, so I threw the game away (literally).
Basically, do not buy this game. Don't be tempted by the idea of "controlling an entire nation", because by "control", they mean "change a few values, illegalize a few religions/political parties, and that's about it", and by "realism", they mean "tax the people at 100% because they won't mind". If this is a "realistic geo-political simulator", then we are all doomed. Do not buy this game.
 Frustrating March 11, 2006
B. Dent (Fayetteville, NC)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Excellent premise but this game is extremely fragile -- the least memory distraction makes the whole game lock up or shut down, and if you're playing in a LAN, it'll lock up all the computers linked into the game. Too much emphasis on military silliness to sell it to warmongering nerds. The designers would have been better advised to counterbalance the economic and political power and actions in the game, which would be a more realistic real-world scenario than the childish overtemptation for invasion and war found in this game.
bugs anyone---bugs no more!!!! November 6, 2004
D. Henderson
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
A major issue I have with this game is the fact that reccomended system requirements are 512 MB of ram. Minimuim is 256. It runs really badly at 256. The game is a brillent concept, especially if your into geo-politics. You get a real kick out how the game develops(classical realism-hence unlikely). But be warned, this game should come with a can of raid. Update----the game is now usable due to a number of updates which have been made avialable at the Golem labs site. I give it 4.5 stars now.
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