Civilization IV
by Aspyr Media
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Video Game Reviews of Civilization IV
Customer Review: Civ. 4 review
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great strategy game and provides hours of fun. This game is an interactive, modern day game of Risk. Customer Review: Plays on a macbook!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is more of an evolutionary addition to the Civilization saga, but it delivers enough new features that I can still play it for another couple years. It's just one of those games that I can play for hours and hours, if I'm winning.
Best of all it works on my macbook just fine! I have a mb cd 2.0Ghz w/ 1Gb RAM and the fan does run a little bit, but not enough to worry. Definitely ignore the minimum requirements and the fact that the demo doesn't work, if you have an Intel machine.
Customer Review: Best Civ so far
Summary: 4 Stars
I am really impressed with the evolution of this game. I started playing Civ II years ago and loved Civ III. This latest version is quite robust and, in my opinion, uses a much better system for "growing" your civilization. They've incorporated religion into the mix and acknowledged the importance of great people and culture. It actually pays off a lot to build wonders and if someone else builds it before you, you exchange all that effort into gold. It is really an intriguing game.
The complaints I have about it are more technical. It's requirements for processor speed and memory are a bit excessive. On my brand new iMac (2.16 dual core, 1 GB RAM) it has a tendency to crash unexpectedly. I am hoping that can simply be cured by more RAM, though.
Customer Review: Even better than its forbearer's !
Summary: 5 Stars
Just get this. If you like the game play of this type of adventure you will love this one. The best of the lot. AddictiveCustomer Review: Resource Hog, but good addition to the genre
Summary: 4 Stars
Running the game on a "recommended" system (2Ghz, etc.) still requires a substantial amount of time particularly as the game progresses and enemy moves are calculated. However, as the game is turn-based, the occasional substantial pauses between turn updates is an excuse to turn to more productive tasks - the impact (when in window mode) on other tasks appears to be minimal, possibly because the game exploits only a single processor (which it tends to run at 100% utility).
While I miss some of the features of prior games, the richer diplomatic actions, the fine graphics rendering, and the fairly substantial number of technologies makes playing the game both enjoyable and challenging. I expect it to be part of my actively played set of games for some time to come making it worth the price.
I'd like to suggest that Aspyr consider exploiting multi-processing however, to the extent possible in order to reduce turn latency.