Windows

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Description

The fourth "regular" installment in one of the most important game series ever created is here. In Civilization IV, like in the previous games, the player starts with a single village in the Stone Age and must advance from there by exploring, founding cities, researching, exploiting natural resources and eventually trading or making war with neighbouring civilizations. Civilization III put cultural influence in the forefront and this time it is religion that is put forward as the invisible factor underlying many aspects of the game.

In addition Civilization IV attempts to streamline gameplay by removing some features (corruption, pollution) which slowed down the late stages of the game and making significant changes to the combat system so that tactical thinking plays a more important role. Units now have a single combat value instead of defence and attack values, have a special ability and can be further enhanced with experience in a player defined way.

Finally the new game offers the most significant aesthetic improvements since the transition from I to II with a detailed 3D map, environmental ambiance and well animated units.

Alternate Titles

• "文明帝國 IV" -- Chinese title (traditional)
• "文明IV" -- Chinese title (simplified)
• "Wenming IV" -- Chinese title
• "시드 마이어의 문명 IV" -- Korean title
• "Civ 4" -- Informal name
• "シヴィライゼーション４" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• 4X games
• Civilization series
• Games with Classical Music
• Games with randomly generated environments
• Middleware: Gamebryo/NetImmerse
• Middleware: Scaleform GFx SDK
• Sid Meier's games
• Technology: amBX

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User Reviews

[v3.0] Whoa, Sid...what did you do to Civilization?	Indra was here... (13176)
Civ 4 is a huge improvement over Civ 3 in almost every way except the system requirements and stability.	Droog (468)
They broke Civilization!	PCGamer77 (3025)

The Press Says

Armchair Empire, The	Jan 10, 2006	10 out of 10	100
Game Vortex	2005	95 out of 100	95
IGN	Oct 21, 2005	9.4 out of 10	94
UnderGroundOnline (UGO)	2005	A-	91
Gamigo	Nov 30, 2005	9.1 out of 10	91
Yahoo! Games	Oct 26, 2005		90
1UP	Nov 03, 2005	9 out of 10	90
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Nov, 2005	90 out of 100	90
Video Game Generation	Jun 21, 2007	9 out of 10	90
Hooked Gamers	Nov 12, 2005	9 out of 10	90

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Trivia

Due to a assembly error, French tech tree posters have snuck into some of the North American Civilization IV boxes. Owners of a flawed version can fill in a form online to get an English version sent by mail. 2K Games has also made available a downloadble PDF version on its website.