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Civilization IV Review (continued)
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Manufacturer: Aspyr Media
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ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
Platform(s): Mac OS X
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
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More User Submitted Civilization IV Reviews
Date: 2007-07-02
BUGS! Dell laptop users Watch out!
Great Civ game but a bug rendered it unplayable past a certain point. I've been playing on a new-ish(newer than the game) Dell Inspiron notebook with an ATI Radeon x1400 thingie and plenty of memory and I'm still waiting for the next patch (last one is 1.61). I've tried the most reasonable of the fixes on all the various boards to no avail. I'm not alone.
Date: 2007-06-27
Endless play
Civilization 4 is a game you can play and play. I had an earlier version on an old Mac and never tired of it. I stepped up to an IMAC with OS X so it required a newer version. Each time I start a game I'm warned that my computer is below the minimum requirements. I asked a Mac Genius and he said it should work and it does, but it is occasionally unstable and will shut down. The game itself is amazing. I marvel at its detail, complexity and historical details. Somebody must be a lot smarter than I am to have put this string of code together.
Date: 2007-06-08
slow on my 2.0 GHz G5
Like almost every version of Civ, Civ IV is a GREAT game, that's for sure. I mean, how many of us have said "just one more turn" at 3am when we had to be at work the next day? Too many of us. Thanks Sid Meier!
But Civ IV, at least on my Mac, doesn't cut it. I've got a dual 2.0-GHz G5 and this game runs slooow. Specifically, towards the end of the game (once you've built up your cities and developed lots of terrain...all of which needs to be rendered and animated by your graphics card), the game scrolls very slowly and choppily. And I've actually got a better video card than the stock video card (cuz I run a 30"). Even if you turn all the graphics settings way down and play on a tiny planet, it's still slow and choppy at the end. And because scrolling is such a major part of the user interface in this game, it means that game turns near the end take forever to conduct.
I've heard this game runs just fine on Windoze. It's just this Mac port that's slow and choppy, videowise. Maybe with a faster computer and better video card it'd be fine, but on my machine it's just *barely* playable.
ps: I should mention that at the beginning of the game, the thing runs zippy. It's just that the more things that get built and devloped, the more things slow down.
Date: 2007-06-08
civ, not as good as it looked
I have a pretty powerful mac that matches all the recommended specs for this game and it still runs pretty slow unless I am zoomed in all the way. It could be a lot more fun if it wasn't so slow.
Date: 2007-06-06
Stick With III
There are a couple of bells and whistles with IV that are nice. The little wonder movies are cool. The overall look of the game is more fantasy like - softer. I prefer the look of III. The real downfall is the AI, which has far more advantages in IV. I play CIV for fun. That means I want to enjoy myself. I enjoy the exploration and building more than anything else. In IV, you are immediately inundated by wild animals who kill off your scouts. Shortly after this, the barbarians descend. They know exactly where your weak points are and they never stop attacking. In III there were five settings for barbarians. In IV there are three: Off, raging or insane. If you start to get ahead of other civs in the game, don't worry, the AI is set up to inundate you with barbarians and keep you in check. And just try to win through war. Good luck. I attacked a city of three spearmen with ten horse archers and a bunch of catapults and lost every single battle. Then, another civ, my ally in the war, rode up with three horsemen and took the city - no sweat. In short, this game will only infuriate you with its gross unfairness, its limited playability, and it crappy custom game controls. Let's put it this way, I unloaded this game from my computer and tossed the discs into a file drawer. Then, I reloaded Civ III. Now I'm happy.
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