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So unplayable, I didn't even finish the tutorial

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: April 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've been a fan of Civ since the first one, and spent
countless hours playing Civ I, II, and III. So I was
really looking forward to IV.

In Civ IV, the units have changed to little groups of
people that run around. The map has changed from 2
dimensional to a 3D perspective view. All these little
people running around the 3D perspective view means I
couldn't tell where the grid was, couldn't tell where
one unit ended and another began, and couldn't tell
what type of unit was what. It was also ridiculously
slow to scroll around the map, hard to figure out what
direction a unit could or couldn't move, and quite
disorienting to just try to find a place: as in
"now where was that settler I sent to the west that
I was just looking at a minute ago?"

Then the program crashed before I even finished the
tutorial. I realized that the play had been so
cumbersome (and the plastic robot Sid Meier so annoying)
that I was almost glad it crashed. I uninstalled the
game without ever finishing the tutorial.

I'll go back to a previous edition of Civilization
until they publish something better than THIS. The
hyped up graphics and movement make Civ IV a lot of
fancy window dressing on a big turkey.

Like Doing Homework

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 42
Date: March 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

JESUS GOD!

I am a big fan of almost all RTS, but this TBS is like watching the paint dry. Sure you can do very cool things like make nukes, but the gameplay reminds me of integration by parts.

I played several games, and they take days to complete. Even after you have built and army to crush your enemy, it still takes about two hours to kill your enemy.

I'll admit that I haven't played any other type of TBS, but I have no idea how this won game of the year. Save your money, and play a strategy game that is actually fun, buy Starcraft BW for $10.

Buy it! yay!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 18
Date: October 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. Now yes I have a good system which any gamer worth their salt should own. The graphics are great and the gameplay is an updated form of Civ 2 and 3 as it should be!

hello

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 22
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a typical turn-based game. It took me some time to figure out how to play and think like the game.The little details are very interesting, such as, the UN and Leonard Nimoy's lending his voice to the game.

I suggest getting the upgrade "Warlords." Make sure you update the upgrade though!

I really don't know what to say anymore.

Terrible. Could never download it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 32
Date: October 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I attempted to download this game on 3 different computers with no success!

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 84
Date: December 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am sure that this game is fine but I have not had the pleasure since my opeating system is a three not a four pen. motherboard nor do I have enough RAMs to run it. I will have to wait until I get an upgrade or new system to play this game.

Not as good as Caesar 3

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 38
Date: May 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing the Sierra city building games since they first came out and I own them all and I love them all. I was really excited about Civ4. I just purchased it and am disappointed in just about every aspect of the game. They completely changed the graphics and the camera and I don't like it. The graphics of the game are almost worse than the original Caesar. The people are still and move like a board game pieces. The buildings are ugly. The maps are poorly done. And I really, really hate that they went to a different camera, like the one in Warcraft where you can zoom in and out, spin around, etc with your mouse. It difficult for me to control and doesn't fit with this type of game. I used to love the graphics and the animations of their games. I think this is the last city building series game I buy from them since this is the route they chose to go. I played this game for a couple of hours the day I bought it and I boxed it back up and threw it on the shelf. I'm going to go back to the old games.

DOUBLE CHARGE

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 39
Date: August 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I MIS ORDERED A DVD VERSION I UNDERSTOOD IT WAS CANCELED AND RE ORDERED A PC VERSION I WAS CHARGED FOR BOTH BUT ONLY RECEIVED THE PC VERSION CAN SOMEONE HELP ME -- THE GAME IS NOT WORTH $100 GLENN FULK

A new patch...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

With the newest patch (as of late December), Civ4 runs fine...at least for me. You'll be so addicted to this game you won't even care if it crashes on you -- you can just go back and make less mistakes! It still freezes a bit, but you'll need the breaks to go get some air. Leave your firewalls on, but for best preformance try closing extra programs like gAIM, Firefox, mIRC, or whatever you might have running. You don't even need to run WinAmp, just throw your mp3s in the game's mp3 folder.

Good Series, Bad Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been a player of the Civilization series for a while now and I am also a big fan of the series. When this game came out I had to get it. Everything was going well until I tried to go online. Immediatly, the game tells me to install a driver. I start installing the driver and when it gets about a forth of the way done, the game shuts down to the desktop. A few days later, I was playing a regular conquest game. Just as I finish building a Great Wonder, my whole computer shuts down. When I reboot, Windows tells me I have just recovered from a serious crash. This would be the best Civilization yet if they had just tested the gameplay a little longer. It seems that they rushed to finish it in order to have it out by Christmas. This is not the work of the Sid Meier that I have grow to love.

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