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Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Take 2 EAN: 0710425311833 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone 10+ Label: Take 2 Manufacturer: Take 2 Platform: Windows XP Publisher: Take 2 Release Date: July 17, 2007 Sales Rank: 414 Studio: Take 2
Features:
The ultimate strategy game, offering players the chance to lead their chosen nation from the dawn of man through the space age
Build the most powerful empire and become the greatest ruler the world has ever known
Civilization comes to life in a beautifully detailed, living 3D world--with all-new easy-to-use mod capabilities and intense multiplayer modes and options
Includes both Civilization IV and the combat-focused Warlords Expansion Pack
Gold Edition bonus items include fantasy-style poster, behind-the-scenes DVD, tech-tree poster, and Civilization IV manual
Product Description: The classic strategy game combined with its incredible expansion pack, for the Civ IV strategy action you crave. / Rated T: Teen
From the Manufacturer: Sid Meier’s Civilization IV is the ultimate strategy game offering players the chance to lead their chosen nation from the dawn of man through the space age on a quest to build the most powerful empire and become the greatest ruler the world has ever known. Now, Civ fans can experience more world domination than ever before with Civilization IV: Gold Edition, which includes both Civilization IV and the combat-focused Warlords Expansion Pack! Box Contents Include:
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV - You won’t want to miss one of the most critically-acclaimed PC games ever from legendary designer Sid Meier. Play as one of history’s greatest leaders and battle, negotiate, strategize and explore your way to world conquest. All of human history is at your fingertips.
Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Warlords - In this first expansion pack to Civilization IV, players have even more options to win by military might – including the devastating Warlords unit. Six new civilizations, ten new leaders and eight additional scenarios just scratch the surface of new content added to the already massive core game.
Gold Edition Bonus Items:
Fantasy-style poster set within the world of Sid Meier’s Civilization from Greg Hildebrandt, the illustrator of the world famous 1977 Star Wars fantasy-themed movie poster, the Clash of the Titans movie poster, various Lord of the Rings calendars and posters and many others.
Behind-the-Scenes DVD featuring developer interviews, insight into the Civ IV development process and featurette on Sid Meier’s history in the gaming industry.
Tech-tree poster featuring the paths to researching and discovering all of the technologies needed to advance in Civilization IV.
Civilization IV Manual
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A worthy upgrade
I'm very pleased by Civilization 4.
This is much more than just a look and feel update, they have tweaked the rules in way which makes it more realistic and with a bigger depth of detail. Spying, religion, governments are much more interesting.
The game feels faster as well.
I want to mention that Beyond the sword is also a worthy addition.
This last version might as well confuse veteran players. The cost of cities tends to sky rocket with their number and building as many cities as you can at the start is not the best option. On the other hand the corruption just affect cities cost now, so your remote city can still produce, which is cool.
Rating: - A few tweaks to the AI and too much eye candy
I am a Monarch-ranked Civ III player and have played quite a few of the mods with pleasure. So I was very excited to move up to Civ IV but find the game unplayable. People play Civilization games for the strategic thought required - not for the visual stimulation. With that said, my PC is an average 2007 work house and Civ IV runs terrible. It is slow. I often have to have a book or magazine with me to distract myself while I wait between 45 and 90 seconds between turns. And the game randomly crashes. OK, I could probably surf the forums and get a debug solution, but I that just takes away frommy gaming time, and since I have a day job... let's just say I would rather use my limited time surf forums looking for mods and cheats, not fixes to software that crashes regularly.
That said, the AI seems to be slightly more sophisticated in Civ IV. I am hoping that some extremely clever Civilization player finds some way to create either a Civ III mod that makes the AI more Civ-IV-like but with Civ III graphics or vice versa. I wonder if this is even possible... I shouldn't have to replace my PC just to be able to play this game.
Rating: - Addictive!
I do not review a lot of games, but I absolutely loved this one!
This is a very competitive game that takes a very long time to play, but is worth the time investment. The only downside to a game like this is once you start doing poorly, it is not very easy to come back, and you can spend hours playing an unsuccessful attempt.
However, this is one of the smartest games I have ever played though, and I will now continue to buy games from this series. If you are looking for an intellectually challenging game, you will love this one!
Rating: - Another Great Civ Game
Civ IV is another great Civ game from the mind of one of greatest game designers of all time. Civ IV presents the Civilization game with such polish and solid gameplay that it will be very interesting to see where Sid Meier's takes the franchise from here.
The graphics aren't the greatest but that's not why you play a Civ game. The mechanics are where this game truly shines. You can conquer by force or by diplomacy and you can be hands-off or you can micro-manage almost every aspect of your cities and territories. The choice is yours.
The scenarios and maps will provide hours upon hours of strategy fun and you will find yourself saying "just one more turn" at 3 a.m. before you know it.
If you like strategy games and you do not own Civ IV, you are doing yourself a disservice. Pick up the game and conquer the world.
Rating: - Civ Rules
Been playing Civ since the first edition back in the mid 90s when I bought my first puter. Love this game and Civ IV just proves that it's one of the best games ever! Sooner or later, I'll order Civ V, just haven't done it yet. Still having too much fun with IV and it's expansion.
- A few tweaks to the AI and too much eye candy
- Addictive!
