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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition Review (continued)
More User Submitted Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition Reviews
Date: 2008-08-18
It's a lot of fun!
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.
Date: 2008-08-11
Fun game, annoying support
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).
Date: 2008-08-05
Not as good as Civ 3
i would rather play Civ 3 than CivIV.I like the graphics better on Civ 3 better as well.Civ seems to have losts its way.
Date: 2008-07-01
Great game, wish I'd bought the Complete Edition
I got to this game a few years after it came out, but I am not at all dissapointed in the content. The only thing I wish is that I'd have bought the complete edition (which I didn't know existed), instead of buying this edition and Beyond the Sword separately.
Date: 2008-06-17
Awesome game, if you have a FAST computer
I've been playing Civilization Games since the game first came out. Even when there were two different brands Sid Meier's and non-Sid Meier, I bought both to see which was better. (Obviously Sid Meier's versions was ;)
This game is FANTASTIC! The requirements are incredably high though and often my PC would lag as the game progressed, taking longer and longer for the computer to compute each turn. I upgraded my computer's RAM though and that largely solved the problem.
If you like ANY of the other Civilization games, you'll love this one. I wouldn't say this is a sequel though, because it's more like a whole new Civilization game.
Also, I would recommend getting the Beyond the Sword expansion along with this for a life changing experience.
Lastly, make sure you check out "Sid Meier's Alpha Centaury." It is INCREDIBLY hard but is FANTASTIC!!! It has Customizable Units and you can even take control of the native flora and fauna.
Make sure you have a lot of time on your hands if you're going to play this game though, as it can easily consume 8 hours of you day without you even realizing it.
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