Is there a good free strategy game online?

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sameesme

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I am a huge Civilization fan but my laptop is too slow to properly play Civ IV. Anything cheap that i can get online thats at least close to the same style?
 

CyberAkuma

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Nothing in life is free my friend.
However, if you do plan on spending a couple of bucks on RTS games I can give you a couple of hints.

First things first, download STEAM [http://store.steampowered.com/] and install it.
From there you can purchase a big number of RTS games fairly cheap.
Beware though, some of the prices are a little bit off (twice the price) compared to retail pricing so you better be a tad careful and compare the prices with your local games shop before buying anything.

Right now you can buy Civilization III on STEAM for ?5 which to me sounds like a good deal.

While not anywhere near the same style my big personal favourite is Company of Heroes (?10).

Also, not available on STEAM, the old Age of Empires games are quite similar to Civilization. I still play Age of Empires II online with friends and it's a lot of fun. That game shouldn't cost you more than 5 bucks.
 

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garygirod33 said:
I am a huge Civilization fan but my laptop is too slow to properly play Civ IV. Anything cheap that i can get online thats at least close to the same style?
Try FreeCIV, it's essentially the "light" Version of the "real" Civ Games and probably uses less system resources

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
 

goodman528

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garygirod33 said:
I am a huge Civilization fan but my laptop is too slow to properly play Civ IV. Anything cheap that i can get online thats at least close to the same style?
Alpha Centauri, if you've never played it before, it's a real treat. It should be 1 or 2 £, which may as well be free. But for reasons I can't understand the expansion pack is fetching £50 on Amazon, though it was made 9 years ago.
 

Wormthong

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try conquest its free and its fun but its more turn based like but it has a huuuuuge world however you will probably get owned very fast by people who own 1/5 of the world but its a nice game try it http://www.conquest-game.com/ wow its got some major upgrade since i last played it well itl probably be more awesome now
 

Xojins

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I think Starcraft is a really good RTS. Sure it's old, but it's a lot of fun.
 

Lukeje

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Huh... why are there two of these threads? http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.84426#1203335