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Best Civ game yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Install problems? Bugs? Glitches? My friends and I all have this game and don't have the problems I'm seeing here. I have no technical problems with this game.

This is the best turn based strategy game I've ever played, period. I loved Civ 2 and played for years-then I was addicted to Civ3. At first, Civ 4 was an adjustment, but once made there is no looking back.

*****
Five stars out of Five

Addictive fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: January 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The best edition in the series. Well worth the hours upon hours of game play!

Everything OK here

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

With all the negative reviews, I felt like someone needed to say something positive...I've got an ATI card (x700) in a athlon 3200 w/ 1.5GB RAM and haven't had any problems whatsoever. Games installs and plays smoothly.

This is a different game from Civ III, that's all there is to it. Some like the former, some like the latter.

The AI in this game is...wow, for lack of a better word. Haven't even tried multi-player yet, and may not for some time. If you are tired of AI in games that do the same thing over and over and over, and after an hour of playing, you know exactly what it's going to do....then you need to try this for a BIG change.

Well Worth the trouble

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have a Radeon 9600 and the game works fine...after I downloaded the new driver and doing the unpack feature suggested on the civ4 website. Yes I know it should work out of the box but with a little tweaking it works just great. running on a P4 3.0Ghz 1G ram. The game play is better than civ III and the graphics are amazing! I would suggest anyone (with a current/new system) get this game!

New rules and gameplay very flawed but great platform for modding

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Great new interface with only a few glitches.
The ability to mod and customize has been much expanded and improved, giving this game a great deal of lasting playability value. This makes up for some of the poorly thought out and frankly unimaginative rule and gameplay changes by the game designers, as players will be able to improve on these rules or reverse the changes themselves (or play mods created by other players).

A Worthy Successor

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: November 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have an ATI card and had some problems running the game. But the folks at CivFanatics.com have a screen-by-screen "how to update your drivers and get the game to run" section that is easy to follow. After updating all the things I should've updated anyway, the game runs fine.

The game itself is great fun. It can be played on a variety of difficulty levels, so everyone can win. It got rid a lot of the tedium that plagued the end-game of Civ III (and Civ II and Civ). There are nice graphics, and the music is WONDERFUL.

If you have any problems, contact the people at CiVFanatics.com. They will be glad to help. In addition, the site continually posts tips and hints for improving your play.

No hardware problems !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: November 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I do not know how all this people have problems with running civilization 4 on there PCs !
I am running it on a P3 500 windows xp Por,(Old P2 Intel Matherboard)an ATI 128 MB video carte and 750 MB of RAM.
I have zero ploblems with the game after playing the game for about 10 hours. It is not very conplicated to update your driver if needed. Grate game

Best Game of the Year !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: December 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Best Civilization Yet - buy it and prepare to be addicted!

A throughly involved game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoy this game and like other have lost track of time. I enjoy the multiplayer aspect and the graphics are great as well. This is a time consuming game and takes thinking and planning - for some it may be slow going since it is turn bases. There are multiple ways to win and many different play styles can be use, which I enjoy. Lot to check out and involved in the game - can be slightly over welheming of some one new to the Civ series, but worth the time.

More of the Same

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The fourth entry in Sid Meier's globe-and-history-spanning empire-building simulation game, Civilization IV is the latest refinement of the Civilization formula. Rather than introducing a lot of new features, Civilization IV tends to stick with the tried-and-true aspects of the series.

Those familiar with the series will recognize the gameplay. The player takes the role of a civilization - one of many real-world empires, such as the English, the Greeks, or the Japanese. The game is turn-based, with each unit moving a certain distance - and getting a certain amount done - each day. The focus is on infrastructure as much as warfare, with most of the units having to do with building cities or maintaining the land around them. Settlers build cities, which serve as a hub for a local network of farms, villages, and mines. Cities can build specific structures or units, and each has its own happiness meters to take care of.

Outside of cities, the major area is research - various technologies (with descriptions narrated by Leonard Nimoy) in fields like architecture, agriculture, literature, and religion that boost your civilization's power. Of course, if you can't resort to peaceful measures with the other civilizations, there is always war, conducted in a fairly simple tactical manner (mostly just consisting of unit strength and any bonuses).

New to Civ IV is the expansion of governments. There are now several key parts to the government of your civilization - the leadership, the distribution of labor, the enforcement of religion, and so on. Religion, also, is new to the game. Different religions have different effects on your empire. Furthermore, there can be a difference between what your "state" religion is and what individual cities' religions are. Generally, you have better relations with people of the same religion, so you should try to use missionaries to expand your chosen religion. Another new feature is the concept of "Great People" - individuals who are summoned by researching certain advances in the fine arts or whatever field they may specialize in. These people can give several sorts of one-time bonuses and are fairly rare, so their usage is very important.

The graphics are decent, but kind of minimal in usage. There aren't a lot of visual indicators, so really it's just more like a board game with little pieces. It serves mostly a utilitarian purpose, just to show where stuff is and not really have any sort of epic scale or embellishment. One part that is pretty neat is the option to zoom out and see the entire map as a globe, dotted by the various cities and empires. But, other than that, there's not much to the graphics. The music is nice, with different songs for each leader and each civilization. Music increases as you are over empires depending on their point in the timeline - a medieval civilization has the proper music, for example. This is a nice ambient touch and the music is well-executed in general.

As a whole, this game is more of the same. For some people, that's a good thing, but I personally felt like there wasn't enough depth in the game as a whole. It concentrated too much on the entirety of history and lost the enjoyment of being in certain periods. It is a good game, yes, but it just didn't really feel as deep as it could or should have.

8/10.

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