Cheap Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Expansion: Alien Crossfire (Software) (Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me) Price

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Customer Reviews of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Expansion: Alien Crossfire

The new human factions (Pirates, Drones, Consciousness, Planet Cult, and Datatechs) are fantastic fun! The alien factions are overpowered, irritating, and suck the life out of the game in my opinion. Fortunately you can play without them. Too bad you can only have seven factions max in a game as playing with the 12 human factions would be incredible fun!

The new planetary features are worth having for sure. The Manifold Nexus is mysterious and worth fighting over. The crash site of the Unity spaceship has lots of goodies to dig up, and the borehole fields are nice to build near.

The new technologies add a lot of excitement to the game along with new base installations like the Aquafarm which gives you more food from kelp farms or the Flechette missile defense which gives you better defense from missile attacks. Brood pits make even bigger and more dangerous mind worms, spore launchers, sealurks, and isles of the deep. New Technologies like marine detatchments can be added to ships so you can board and capture enemy ships! Four new secret projects are also made available: Planetary Energy Grid (energy bank in every base - nice!), Cloudbase Academy (air complex in every base - definitely the most valuable secret project!), the Nethack Terminus (probe team bonus - yawn!), and the Manifold Harmonics (nice for extra food and energy but the game is almost over!).

Once you play with the new factions and buildings, it's doubtful you'd go back to playing just the original as much if at all.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any better -
Take the winning formula of Alpha Centauri and a new twist in the story of Planet, and you have Alien Crossfire. Two alien factions are struggling to regain control of Planet, or Manifold Six as they call it, while several new human factions emerge.

This may become a little repetitive for those familiar with Alpha Centauri at the beginning, but play for long enough and you'll be hooked all over again. New native lifeforms, units, technologies, projects and facilities spark up Planet and allow you to rediscover the game. You can mix and match factions to pit your favourite side against the new, or try one of the alien factions and see how bizarrely they transform units and human technology.

The creators of this game tried to make it a cross between an expansion pack and a sequel, and they've succeeded amazingly. As addictive as Alpha Centauri itself, Alien Crossfire is a worthy successor.

It took me forever to find this
This is one of those, 'don't ask us about' it addons. Seems the owner and a head developer when seperate ways. If you really only want to play the game and are not stuck on collecting it, or the box artwork, do a search for 'The Laptop Collection', and just buy the thing for 19.99 along with Alpha Centauri and like 2 other games. If you need to show the box to your friends, or want to resell it on e-bay, you'd better buy it used for like $75 to $125 here. Whatever you need. Cool game. Next time I won't wait so long to get what I wanted. Collectors glut just about ruined getting a hold of this one. Barely made it. Notice, I don't need the pretty box. :)