SuperPower - Any better post-patches?

Boris Godunov · July 31, 2002, 14:38

Okay, all the reviews pretty much panned this game, but I have to say it looks interesting. I heard there were several patches. So has it been made worth buying with the patches, or is it still dreck?

DinoDoc · July 31, 2002, 15:07

That's what I want to know as well.

Boris Godunov · August 1, 2002, 11:48

Not everyone answer at once, now...

MosesPresley · August 1, 2002, 19:32

OK, I will jump on this grenade. I bought the game when it first came out. I took it home and made it to about turn 5 and the game would crash to desktop. I could only get a few turns and it would crash everytime. Many people on the forums were complaining about this and some other problems.

After about a month a patch came out. The game didn't crash on me, at least not that I can remember, but my allies would cancel any treaties that I made with them the following turn. There were also complaints about illegal troop movements. This first patch was 35mb.

Last night I downloaded the new patch. It is also 35mb. The download took 2hrs 40m on my creaky 56k modem. I activated the self-extracting patch and I was rewarded with a message telling me that it was corrupted during download.

I waited a few hours and decided to try the download again.
Success! I patched the game. I eagerly loaded it up. I chose to play as Afghanistan. I wanted to keep things simple. I had only $600 million dollars, which was just fine with me. My government was anarchy. I had one city for production. I had bad relations with my neighbors. Therefore, I built a few infantry, laid the foundation for a new city and started cultural exchange treaties with China, India, Russia and Iraq.

The next turn went well. No treaties were cancelled and I wasn't strategically nuked out of existence. I played for a few more turns and bought some artillery technology from Russia. The USA had refused.

Then it happened. My treasury had swollen to over five quintillion dollars. $5,135,905,015,079,081,180.00 to be exact. I must have greener thumbs than Alan Greenspan. I played for about three more turns and then the game crashed to the desktop.

I now have a $35 coaster. Somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle is 6 hours of my modem time and a working version of Superpower. On a side note. Now if you hit the "CREDITS" button on the title screen, nothing comes up. Feel free to draw your own conclusions.

DinoDoc · August 1, 2002, 20:02

Ouch! I had such hopes for that game.

Victor Galis · August 1, 2002, 20:40

Ah well... so many games I need to play, one less can't hurt.

Grumbold · August 2, 2002, 05:58

Well at least they are producing patches. If they keep doing so there's some hope. There are quite a few games I can think of that were impossible to complete or had major problems before the fourth or fifth patch.