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Be prepared for some late nights and a grumpy spouse

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is incredibly addicting. Previously, I had played a lot of freeciv (Civ II ruleset), and there are many more elements to this game. There is a wide selections of maps, terrains, and scenarios. One scenario you get to play the barbarians, pillaging different civilizations, which is a fun twist once in a while. The diplomacy and AI are well written, providing some tough opponents.

The only drawback with Civ IV, is spending too much time playing, resulting in a grumpy wife. :)

No problems installing on Vista

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My soon-to-be 7-year-old son loves this game (as do I), so I finally bought it for his upcoming birthday. I had to try it out before giving it to him, and I had no problems installing it on my laptop running Vista--right out of the box. (I'm not sure why others have had problems. I wasn't upgrading from a previous version or anything like that, so I don't know.) My son loves choosing the different rulers, naming his own cities, scrolling in to listen to the music in the different empires, and creating "Rock-n-Roll" as fast as he can. It really is an engaging game, and hard to stop playing once you've started. My brother just got a copy of Sid Meier's Pirates (for xbox), and now my son has another favorite game that I'll have to get for my laptop.

A solid sequel

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

For those who have followed the Civ series, Civ IV is a great update to a classic. Many features have been expanded upon (more complex government choices, religions, many more land improvements). The graphics are amazing, rendered in 3D with great fight scenes. The keyboard shortcuts are as close as possible to the previous games, so you can pick that up quickly as well.

But be prepared -- it'll take you a few days of play before you feel like you have any idea what's going on. Even though it is very similar to the earlier versions, it doesn't FEEL similar, so give it time to soak in.

The only bummer is that the game requires you keep the original CD in the drive for copy protection. This is a big drag.

Highly recommended.

Good addition to the Civ series

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing this game for about a month now. If you like the previous Civilization games then you'll have a lot of fun with this one too. Just beware the addictive nature of these games. Once you get going it is very hard to quit.

Super fun time sucking game. What more do you want?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If I was on a desert island with only one game - this would be it. SO many different ways to play and each game is always different. Long play short play - great revision sid! All the expansions are fun. This one is really good - beyond the sword is better though - if you can only get one expansion - get beyond the sword.

Fun game, annoying support

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought the Gold edition and the Beyond the Sword expansion pack and overall I think this game is excellent when you are playing it. I really have to say it is addictive and as long as you are happy with the game right out of the box and assuming you are not the type of person to read the manual anyway you will love it.

Unfortunately it had a few shortcomings:
- documentation claimed that the full manual was on disc 3 (Gold) but at least on mine it wasn't there. I emailed support and they told me to go download it off some third party site. When I responded politely that they must be joking and they must have a pdf version of the full manual somewhere they sent me a link to a pdf of the full manual...who knows why they told me to go hunt one down myself the first time.
- when you go to download an update there is no progress bar so you sit there and wonder if it's almost done, how much longer, etc. The only way you know the update is still running is when you go to click on something else and it tells you that you may not proceed until the update is complete. It might take a really long time depending on how fast your connection is and you pretty much just sit there wondering.
- I checked out the website and it is pretty barren for such a great game, and you can find some of the links are broken on the website so it seems like they don't really maintain the site much.
- some parts of the game itself are somewhat clunky like the Civilopedia. It is pretty decent although they could have added more information to it and the interface for it is pretty poor. I wanted to know what caused the global warming effect and of course that wasn't in there so I ended up chasing down the full game manual just so I can find out what game effect made it (using nukes apparently).
- the only real game issue I had with it was when you get to the end of a game and just barely scratch the surface on super-tech things like space-elevators and interstellar spacecraft it's all over. Years ago I played the Call to Power game and the one thing that I loved about that game was the high-tech. Underwater cities, extreme eco-terrorists (I loved the ability to eco-nuke a city) and stuff like that. None of that here...at least yet (cross my fingers).

It's a lot of fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this as a birthday gift for a friend's teenage boy. He couldn't quit playing it. He says its the best one yet.

Civ Rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Been playing Civ since the first edition back in the mid 90s when I bought my first puter. Love this game and Civ IV just proves that it's one of the best games ever! Sooner or later, I'll order Civ V, just haven't done it yet. Still having too much fun with IV and it's expansion.

Sid Meiers Civ IV Gold

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was new, in original box, and discounted from what I could find in the stores.

Love it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought the trial version for my husband for Christmas 2006 and he LOVED it - so this year I upgraded to Civ IV and he cannot wait to play. He has friends at work who also play and they talk about stategy and options.

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