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| PLATFORM: | Windows 98 |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Electronic Arts |
| ESRB RATING: | Everyone |
| FEATURES: | Get ready for action with Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossfire, The Laptop Collection includes 5 games you can play on the go, Compete as or against Tiger Woods in Tiger Woods PGA Tour Collection, Experience Soviet Union's invasion of the U.S. in Command and Conquer Red Alert 2, 13 scenarios or create your own adventures in SimCity 3000 Unlimited |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 014633129250 |
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Customer Reviews of The Laptop Collection
Three classics in one box The only con of this set is that I don't care about golf at all. Otherwise, it's all great. If I had to make a shortlist of the ten best games I've seen, Red Alert 2, Sim City 3000 and Alpha Centauri would certainly be among them. And they're all here! For this price! Of course these titles do not fit the high graphical standards of the latest competitors in their respective genres, but it is far more important to note how good the games are aside of their visual side.
Alpha Centauri contains the familiar Civilization story in a great SF setting, and I rate this game above the more recent Civilization 3 in some respects (the wonder movies, the diplomacy, the resources). It's certainly the best game in the package and I can't recommend it enough. You get the add-on Alien Crossfire at the same time.
I don't recall how often I've played the real-time strategy game Red Alert 2 online, but it was quite often! In terms of gameplay, RA2 is outweighed by the classic Starcraft, but the game is easier to play and also funnier in some ways. But you haven't seen this game in its entirety until you know the terrific and crazy add-on Yuri's Revenge, which is not included here. So try to find that add-on too.
Sim City is just as addicting as the above two. Here the focus is on building a successful city. This isn't easy for beginners, and you'll have to go bankrupt a lot of times before a really successful city arises. A good idea is to make debts and sign a lot of contracts that give you money, regardless if there are side effects. Once you have a stabilized city, you can tear the contracts anyway. Those who don't have patience can use cheats or start with pre-made cities, although that takes away some of the fun.
The three games above (and forget the golf stuff) are all classics and deserve to be played by anyone interested in the genres. Highly recommended.
The best PC game ever!!! and a few others
This is an excellent bargain. Alpha Centauri and Alien Corssfire is the best gaming experience that you can have on the PC. I've never enjoyed a more addictive and compelling game. Red Alert 2 is a great game as well. The real-time strategy genre isn't my favorite, but I enjoyed Red Alert 2. Its over the top units and story kept my interest. The other 2 games are just icing on the already delicious cake. You can't do better for 20 bucks....
And the Alpha centauri games do work fine under Windows XP. Not only can you run the games in compatibility mode, but a patch has been released that allow the games to run native to XP. Get the patch at Firaxis.com.
Tried XP compatibility mode for Alien Crossfire?
Those of you unsuccessful at getting Alien Crossfire to work in XP - have you heard of and/or tried compatibility mode? You can tell XP to act like Windows 98 whenever you run this particular program, and it works fine.