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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: 2008-03-26
A Giant Step Down
I was extremely disappointed in Civ IV compared to Civ II and III. Civ IV plays extremely differently than its previous versions. Did Sid have a conversion experience because Civ IV seems to be all about religion? I bought my computer a year ago and it wasn't a bare-bones model but the videos are choppy and the graphics are awful. So unless you have spent thousands of dollars on a sports car of computers, don't waste your money on this one.
Date: 2008-03-19
Civilization 4 Gold Edition
Great game with tons of replay value and endless components of strategy. You can never play the same game over again because of the randomness of the AI and how, with increasing difficulty, it seems as if they are ganging up against you, making it a wonderfully difficult experience.
Date: 2008-03-05
excellent
This is a superb visual and stunning achievement in gaming, with amazing flexibility of use! It's mods are myriad and removable, able to do just about anything. The units are more balanced and powerful than CIV III, and the governments seem to work better. I took me back to the enjoyable simplicity of the first CIV's, with available complexity that does not intrude, like specializations for units you can use or ignore. Very intuitive, even for a part-time gamer like myself. Highly recommended, Sid is back!
Date: 2008-03-03
Good as Gold
Civilization IV: Gold Edition is one of those rare gems that make you remember why you play games. For newcomers to the series, Civilization is a board game like strategy game-- just imagine Risk on steroids! The signature symptom of this series is the "just one more turn" factor. Civ gives you absolute control of one civilization throughout the ages. Discovering technology, managing cities, building world wonders, commanding armies, fighting other civs, and interacting with other world leaders through diplomacy, you need to guide your civilization from the stone age to the space age. When all's said and done you have a game that is part Risk, part sim-city, part Axis & Allies, and part Diplomacy, all done with the complicated parts kept track of by the computer. I've been a big fan of this type of game, having played Civ I, II, and III, although I fell out of the series on the 3rd title. Now Civ IV: Gold ups the ante over it's predecessors with new game mechanics, better 3D visuals, and more leaders, civs, and units than you can shake a stick at. Yet it retains the same addictive formula as the first iteration. Plus this Gold edition gives us the Warlords expansion. I have rekindled my love of this epic game and am quite pleased with the purchase. The only caveat, is that there's a Civ IV: Complete out there that also adds the Beyond the Sword expansion. Of course, having gotten Gold on sale, I just grabbed a separate copy of the BTS add-on to fuel my addiction. For the price, this is one of the best games to grace my hard drive in awhile.
Highlights include: the tabletop miniature style units that represent your armies; variety of victory conditions (space race, cultural, domination, etc); variety of civilizations and leaders complete w/ different bonuses/traits; bonus scenarios; turned based strategy at it's best. I highly recommend this game.
And if you're not completely satisfied with the variety this game offers, check out [...] for all sorts of add-ons (many of which are incorporated into the expansion discs!).
Date: 2008-03-03
Super fun time sucking game. What more do you want?
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.
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