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Digital Cameras - Camcorders - Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition
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List Price: $39.99
Our Price: $21.98
Your Save: $ 18.01 ( 45% )
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks
Manufacturer: Take 2
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Take 2
EAN: 0710425311833
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone 10+
Feature: The ultimate strategy game, offering players the chance to lead their chosen nation from the dawn of man through the space age
Label: Take 2
Manufacturer: Take 2
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Take 2
Release Date: 2007-07-17
Studio: Take 2
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Features
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The ultimate strategy game, offering players the chance to lead their chosen nation from the dawn of man through the space age
Build the most powerful empire and become the greatest ruler the world has ever known
Civilization comes to life in a beautifully detailed, living 3D world--with all-new easy-to-use mod capabilities and intense multiplayer modes and options
Includes both Civilization IV and the combat-focused Warlords Expansion Pack
Gold Edition bonus items include fantasy-style poster, behind-the-scenes DVD, tech-tree poster, and Civilization IV manual
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: A worthy upgrade
Comment: I'm very pleased by Civilization 4.
This is much more than just a look and feel update, they have tweaked the rules in way which makes it more realistic and with a bigger depth of detail. Spying, religion, governments are much more interesting.
The game feels faster as well.
I want to mention that Beyond the sword is also a worthy addition.
This last version might as well confuse veteran players. The cost of cities tends to sky rocket with their number and building as many cities as you can at the start is not the best option. On the other hand the corruption just affect cities cost now, so your remote city can still produce, which is cool.
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Summary: A few tweaks to the AI and too much eye candy
Comment: I am a Monarch-ranked Civ III player and have played quite a few of the mods with pleasure. So I was very excited to move up to Civ IV but find the game unplayable. People play Civilization games for the strategic thought required - not for the visual stimulation. With that said, my PC is an average 2007 work house and Civ IV runs terrible. It is slow. I often have to have a book or magazine with me to distract myself while I wait between 45 and 90 seconds between turns. And the game randomly crashes. OK, I could probably surf the forums and get a debug solution, but I that just takes away frommy gaming time, and since I have a day job... let's just say I would rather use my limited time surf forums looking for mods and cheats, not fixes to software that crashes regularly.
That said, the AI seems to be slightly more sophisticated in Civ IV. I am hoping that some extremely clever Civilization player finds some way to create either a Civ III mod that makes the AI more Civ-IV-like but with Civ III graphics or vice versa. I wonder if this is even possible... I shouldn't have to replace my PC just to be able to play this game.
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Summary: Addictive!
Comment: I do not review a lot of games, but I absolutely loved this one!
This is a very competitive game that takes a very long time to play, but is worth the time investment. The only downside to a game like this is once you start doing poorly, it is not very easy to come back, and you can spend hours playing an unsuccessful attempt.
However, this is one of the smartest games I have ever played though, and I will now continue to buy games from this series. If you are looking for an intellectually challenging game, you will love this one!
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Summary: Another Great Civ Game
Comment: Civ IV is another great Civ game from the mind of one of greatest game designers of all time. Civ IV presents the Civilization game with such polish and solid gameplay that it will be very interesting to see where Sid Meier's takes the franchise from here.
The graphics aren't the greatest but that's not why you play a Civ game. The mechanics are where this game truly shines. You can conquer by force or by diplomacy and you can be hands-off or you can micro-manage almost every aspect of your cities and territories. The choice is yours.
The scenarios and maps will provide hours upon hours of strategy fun and you will find yourself saying "just one more turn" at 3 a.m. before you know it.
If you like strategy games and you do not own Civ IV, you are doing yourself a disservice. Pick up the game and conquer the world.
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Summary: Civ Rules
Comment: 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.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The classic strategy game combined with its incredible expansion pack, for the Civ IV strategy action you crave. / Rated T: Teen
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