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Developer: Firaxis Games
Publisher: 2K Games
Game Details: Faster-Paced Fun - Gameplay has been streamlined for a tighter, faster, and more compelling
Faster-Paced Fun - Gameplay has been streamlined for a tighter, faster, and more compelling experience.Greater Accessibility and Ease of Play - An easy-to-use interface will be immediately familiar to RTS and action game players, and newcomers to the series will be able to jump in and play. Tech Tree - Flexible Tech tree allows players more strategic choices for developing their civilizations along unique paths. More Civs, Units, and Improvements to enhance and grow your empire.Faster-Paced Fun - Gameplay has been streamlined for a tighter, faster, and more compelling experience.Greater Accessibility and Ease of Play - An easy-to-use interface will be immediately familiar to RTS and action game players, and newcomers to the series will be able to jump in and play. Tech Tree - Flexible Tech tree allows players more strategic choices for developing their civilizations along unique paths. More Civs, Units, and Improvements to enhance and grow your empire. Multiplayer -LAN, Internet, PBEM, and Persistent Turn-Based Server (PTBS) offer players all-new strategies and ways to play when competing or cooperating with live opponents. Team Play - Whether playing multiplayer or single player, team play offers a new way of setting locked alliances that result in shared wonder effects, visibility, unit trading, and shared territory that delivers a plethora of new strategic and tactical options. Civ IV comes to life! - Beautiful 3D world with dozens of fully animated units (including culturally unique units), and totally customizable armies. Cities and wonders will appear on the map. Wonder movies are back! [2K Games]… Expand
Developer: Firaxis Games
Publisher: 2K Games
Genre(s): Strategy Turn-Based Historic Historic 4X
Number of players: Online Multiplayer
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Rating: E10+
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Critic Reviews
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94
Metascore Universal acclaim
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GameSpy
"A game with this much depth, this much strategy, this much replayability, and multiplayer is totally unheard of in this space. Civilization IV stands alone. No fan of strategy games should leave this on store shelves." ... Read full review
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Armchair Empire
"Civilization IV has a ridiculous amount of strategic elements packed into it." ... Read full review
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Play.tm
"Firaxis have managed to thoroughly overhaul one of the classic games of all time and drag it up from its dark ages into the renaissance era. Even with its speedier gameplay Civ IV will be the cause of many sleepless nights and damaged relationships." ... Read full review
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Pelit (Finland)
"No more micromanagement, diplomacy is finally easy to understand and combat is more rational than ever before. The graphics for camouflage units and advisors seem to be only half-finished, but it is still the best Civilization ever. [Dec 2005]"
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My Gamer
"Between the multitude of challenges that players must overcome in the single player campaign, the mods that can be made and played with the included World Builder and the ever-changing multiplayer scene, we’re happy to say that Civilization IV should hold the attention of the strategy gamer for months to come." ... Read full review
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Yahoo!
"Firaxis shows an impressively consistent grasp of what to abstract and what to detail, and a remarkable talent for presenting large-scale strategic challenges in a format that's easy to digest." ... Read full review
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Gamers Europe
"The new interface may throw a few of the more institutionalised players off the scent, but it won’t be long before they settle down for another few years." ... Read full review
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8.2
User Score Generally favorable reviews
923 Positive Ratings 78%
147 Mixed Ratings 12%
101 Negative Ratings 8%
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JohnD.
May 19, 2007
Amazing strategy and just the incredible amount of variablity.
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ReviewsAreBS
Feb 26, 2023
Big upgrade from Civ3, which was excellent in it’s own right. Game nails pretty much everything. Even the add-ons are excellent. I haven’tBig upgrade from Civ3, which was excellent in it’s own right. Game nails pretty much everything. Even the add-ons are excellent. I haven’t played the sequels so I can’t compare with them.… Expand
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MorganC.
Mar 30, 2006
This is, quite literally, the best game I've ever played. Will keep you hooked for hours on end.
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JustinSt.J
Oct 31, 2009
Excellent game. Enormous replay value. Great online play. There is tons going on and tons of factors to consider... perhaps too many. The Excellent game. Enormous replay value. Great online play. There is tons going on and tons of factors to consider... perhaps too many. The game has a good reference guide built in yet this guide is constantly lacking critical information.… Expand
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CarloR.
Jan 16, 2006
Good game. Potentially addicting for spurts of time, but also potentially repetitive, predictable and tedious. A 9.3?? Alongside such Good game. Potentially addicting for spurts of time, but also potentially repetitive, predictable and tedious. A 9.3?? Alongside such classics as Baldur's Gate II, Quake or Civ 2?!! Ridiculous. I was blown away by Civ 2, dissapointed w/ Civ3, and found this one to be good, but not deserving of the effusive praise seen here.… Expand
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UnzarJ.
Nov 4, 2005
Lets you control cities without any immersive feel of actually controlling cities. The most addictive cartoon spreadsheet invented. At the Lets you control cities without any immersive feel of actually controlling cities. The most addictive cartoon spreadsheet invented. At the risk of overusing the word "addictive", it's addictive, but burnout factor will come quick.… Expand
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Wurm
Feb 7, 2006
Avoid at all costs unless your computer meets or exceeds recommended specs! Minimum specs listed for game are completely insufficient and it Avoid at all costs unless your computer meets or exceeds recommended specs! Minimum specs listed for game are completely insufficient and it will not play! Rushed to market, the game is truely un-playable on most systems. Review info on patches to see just how much had to be repaired after date of sale! (and see how much STILL has to be repaired) My advice would be if you really love the Civ series, wait until the price drops and the "Game of the Year" version is released.… Expand
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