Microprose did release several expansion type titles to Civilization 2, of varying quality.
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Strangely, the ultimate victor to this heated license war was the massive financial power of the toy giant, Hasbro, who in the end purchased both the Avalon Hill and Microprose companies.įor the fans though, the fallout of this conflict would continue to be a muddled affair where finding the true offspring of the Civilization name was at best, hit or miss.
Companies like Activision, Microprose, and even Avalon Hill fell into ugly legal battles that risked ruin for the combatants, all in an effort to lay claim to the name and the rights of future Civilization titles. This could explain the epic conflicts that broke out about the ownership of the name. By most people, the Civilization name was highly revered and some even thought it held some magical properties with the fans. Anxious to ride on the coattails of success, other companies launched their own adaptations, which ranged from the majestic to the disastrous. It's also fairly common knowledge that Civilization and Civilization 2 have managed to break most of the conventional rules that the industry held so dear when those games were released. Fortunately these rip-offs are usually easily identifiable as they rarely carry the name of the original success but often go through great pains to tout just how much they are like the game they are attempting to clone. One of the inevitable facts of today's computer gaming industry is that success breeds clones.lots of them! It's also true that most of these efforts result in poor knock-offs of the original, rarely risking making attempts at offering anything that resembles originality or inventiveness.
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