Edited sentence: In short - the game is a titan which memory will not soon be forgotten.On the positive side though, huge numbers of players around the world all consider "colonize" to be one of the first, biggest and best strategy games ever made.The all around geniousity of the gameplay intrigued players enough to chain them to their monitors for hours and hours.The game is now considered to be an absolute classic and it can be argued that it is one of the true godfathers in the world of strategy games