During the course of the game you research new technologies and bring your civilization into the space age. Your goal is either to fill your world and conquer all your opponents, or to be the first to send a starship to Alpha Centauri. But you're not alone in the world. Multiplayer Civilization gives you the opportunity to play against your friends. Running your civilization becomes a balance of exploration, technology development, defending yourself and putting your opponents out of business.
Civilization can be an incredibly addictive and fun game.
The Civilization franchise has become more diverse over the last few years. Civilization II has been released in a multiplayer version, and has been re-released in a gold version with its expansion sets. You can think of Freeciv as a combination of CivII and multiplayer CivII, with a few enhancements of its own. Players of Civilization II by Microprose should feel at home, since one aim of Freeciv is to have compatible rules. Freeciv is being developed in the Unix world, which means that you can run it on most any Unix platform.