Civilization IV
The latest version of the long-running Civilization Series, and the deepest, most beautiful, and most fun empire-building turn-based strategy game yet conceived by developer Fixaris Games.
Compared to Civiliation III, the game has less tedium, like the "pollution" of earlier games, which has been replaced with a happiness-like health meter. It is also breathtakingly beautiful compared to the previous graphics. There is "religion", and ARPG-like experience points for military units that can be used for various upgrades. Culture (introduced in Civilization II) still expand your boundaries, and "Great Artists" now help with that.
Also an entire typical (7-civilization) game now takes around twelve hours (as opposed to the 2-3 times that in Civilization III).
The game was hard to run, with the play area being dark, all but th
e eyes and teeth of nation’s leaders missing, and animals just showing as dark clouds, at least before Firaxis came out with a series of patches (the game was released out prematurely for the holiday shopping season).
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php? t=133003&page=6
Comparison to Civilization III
The production symbol has been changed from a shield to a hammer. (I never understood why it was a shield which seemed to indicate some military-specific metric.)
Play Tips
- Be very careful not to overexpand early as that may cost you tons of upkeep. The computer will silently change you money production towards more and more upkeep, and that means it can take you suddenly 10-15 years to research the early technologies...
Demo
2kgames supplied a surprise demo of the game in mid-November, there are ~280M and ~314M versions floating around on the net - you want the larger one or you may get a message called "Setup has determined that you need to install DirectX" but then only give you the option to quit on the Next button. - use e.g. http://www.gamershell.com/download_11624.shtm l
Note that even with the larger version, the personas’ image is missing (you see floating eyes and mouth only), plus the background will be black for a long time, but then during maybe turn 10 of the 100 you get some or all of the black goes away. Looks like the demo was rushed out prematurely as well.
Awards
External Links
- Official Site
- CivFanatics - 1 out of 2 Great Civ IV User Forums
- Apolyton - 2 out of 2 Great Civ IV User Forums
- IGN Preview
- Civ Addicts Anonymous "Hey, baby. You into turn-based gameplay?" Don’t let this happen to you. CivAnon can help.
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Preferably not something turn-based. |
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I believe there were 2 options one where you could go to war and one where it was like age of empire and you just build your village and army.
The building style was different from age of empire. You get a builder and you can see them actually build the building, starting with setting up the wood to make the wall etc..
the more builders u had the faster the building.
You could build a place where all the villagers eat and drink beer. You can see them walking in and siting down for a beer.
It was a really fun game, it came with my computer I bought in the mid 1990s or so.
Any help is appreciated, thanks. |
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I'm finally getting into a position to buy a new computer, and in the software package I'll be getting for it, I will probably be getting a new game. I have the following parameters:
I have Civilization 4 somewhere around here, and will probably be loading that.
I enjoy less complicated strategy type games over simulations, and don't much like real time reflex based games.
I would want a game I could play over and over, and not just be repeating the same steps.
I will ultimately be running Windows 7 as my operating system.
I don't want an online game, as my internet connection does not support real-time gaming.
let's hear suggestions. please give YOUR impressions, and not just links. |
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