With its revamped engine, Call to Power II definitely succeeds on this front and is substantially better than the original. In line with other improvements in the game, the audio in Call to Power II has also undergone significant improvements. For any game in the strategy genre, the quality of its game play is the ultimate factor in determining if the game was excellent, mediocre or downright bad. Unfortunately, despite the enormous amount of improvements made to the other areas of the game, the game play in Call to Power II is much like that of the original, and for many gamers, this will not be good enough. To put this into perspective, something probably has to be said about the other games in the genre.
Strategy games are probably among the most developed genres that currently exist on the PC platform.
While they do not necessarily have the latest graphics or make full use of the most powerful processors of the day, the best games in this field definitely possess some intangible quality that makes them truly great. Realizing that they probably attempted to implement too many features in the original game, much of the micromanagement in Call to Power II is automated and beyond your control. These tiles can then be simply applied to any area of the city. It is no longer necessary to micromanage the worker labor and various other economic details when going about upgrading your city. Instead, the computer will determine the effect of these upgrades and this determination is in direct relation to the size of your population.