Worthplaying: wonderfully expansive

Worthplaying posted up a preview of Colonization and they seem quite taken by what the game has to offer.

The actual process of building up your city and managing your colonists is intuitive and delightful, but you are going to lose most of your battles with the CPU unless you opt to play titles on Epic or Marathon length. Even then, fighting off your mother country’s army is a Herculean task, although clearly by design. The game supports online multiplayer and is almost certain to be most enjoyable in that mode, especially with its integrated voice chat. We were unable to test out that portion of the game, so this preview rather strictly talks about the single-player game modes, which are typical of what you might expect of something from the Civilization lineage but somehow less satisfying than the more open-ended gameplay allowed in the core games.