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Sid Meier's Civilization IV

The world's most famous strategy game is back! Rule throughout time and create your own legacy as you guide your civilization from the dawn of man through the space age and beyond. Implement new technologies, conduct diplomacy or wage war to grow your society and become the most powerful leader the world has ever known.

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€60.45

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Overview

With Sid Meier's Civilization IV, history as you know it, is history: implement new technologies,conduct diplomacy or wage war to grow your society and become the most powerful leader the world has ever known.

Key Features:

  • 3D Living World
    Detailed environments where animals roam and smoke billows from small huts, set in a vibrant and colorful world.
  • Overhauled Interface
    RTS style, intuitive interface allows you to manipulate units and cities with greater control and faster speed.
  • Multiplayer
    Built from the ground up for multiplayer with Era Starts, variable game speeds, hot join, team play and a bevy of connectivity options: Internet, LAN, Play by Email (PBEM), hot seat and more. The best multiplayer Civ experience ever developped means hundreds of hours of gameplay for you and leaders across the world.
  • Customization
    An unprecedented level of modding power allows you to customize the units, environments and gameplay to meet your vision, including: a WorldBuilder editor, XML and Python scripting language editing.

This game has been developped for the Mac by Aspyr.

System Requirements:

Minimum System Requirements

  • Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
  • PowerPC G5 or Intel chipset, 1.8 GHz or faster
  • 512MB or higher
  • 3.5 GB free disk space
  • Video Card: Radeon 9600 or better / GeForce FX 5200 or better
  • 64MB VRAMor higher
  • Multiplayer: Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) play supported. Internet play requires broadband connection.
    • Media Required: DVD Drive

*Supported Video cards: NVIDIA GeForce 5200, 6600, 6800, 7800 ATI Radeon 9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X600, X800, X850, X1600

Recommended System Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4.6 or later
  • PowerPC G5 or Intel chipset, 2.0 GHz or faster
  • 128MB VRAM
 

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3.5

Based on 5 reviews

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  • Sid Meier's Civilization IV

    3.0

    Ummm...
    • Written by TB from London
    • 23-Aug-2006

    Civ IV is a good game...a very good game in fact and a massive improvement on Civ III.

    It is hampered by massive deficiencies in its performance, which is simply not up to scratch (I'm running a 20" Intel with RAM and VRAM maxed out) - the game is buggy and you'd have to say that the port has not been a success.

    If you can live with that for now, buy this game - it is very enjoyable. Otherwise wait until it's been patched and issues fixed properly. One patch so far....more must follow.     …More

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  • Sid Meier's Civilization IV

    1.0

    Two steps behind...
    • Written by SR from Espergærde
    • 06-Aug-2008

    As always the Mac release is two steps behind the Windows release and it must be compared to that as an alternative.
    By now the game has been out for several years, so we all know what it's about - no need to dig further into that.
    The game as such is really worth five stars, but considering the fact that it costs about 5 times as much as the Windows equivalent, my rating will be five times less.

    And while we are still waiting for the third expansion pack to hit the shelves (with an obscure price tag), "Civilization IV Complete" is available for Windows at a LOWER price than this regular Civ IV is for Mac.

    Somebody wake up and fix this!     …More

    73 of 88 people found this useful

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  • Sid Meier's Civilization IV

    4.0

    One for the fans to come back to...
    • Written by AR from Wimbledon
    • 22-Sep-2006

    With each new release of Civilization, I find myself wondering whether they really can sustain the whole franchise, and make the new version so much better as to justify buying into it all over again.

    Well, they certainly have this time; returning players will find the improved graphics and gameplay far improved over the previous version. Additional gameplay options (improvements to multiplayer both online and locally, map creation, playing styles and more) make it feel immersive and sophisticated; it's just that much more fun to play.

    Playing the largest maps with all AI opponents caused no noticeable slow-down on a 2.16GHz 15.4" MacBook Pro with 1Gb RAM until the game was far advanced. I was really impressed with this, and expect that it can only be better on a desktop machine with similar or higher specs.     …More

    73 of 92 people found this useful

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  • Sid Meier's Civilization IV

    4.0

    Very Good
    • Written by JW from High Peak
    • 11-Jun-2009

    This is one of those games that you think is brilliant for the first month or two and whenever you get back from whatever you were doing during the day, you instantly go and play as soon as you get home. But then you find it loses its flair and is left on a shelf while you just go on the next best game or on the internet.

    It is quite difficult to pick up but once you do it is a very enjoyable game. The graphics when zoomed out are good but lose their quality when you zoom in but you get over that. It is very well thought out and I think it's a good game.     …More

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  • Sid Meier's Civilization IV

    1.0

    Two steps behind...
    • Written by SR from Espergærde
    • 06-Aug-2008

    As always the Mac release is two steps behind the Windows release and it must be compared to that as an alternative.
    By now the game has been out for several years, so we all know what it's about - no need to dig further into that.
    The game as such is really worth five stars, but considering the fact that it costs about 5 times as much as the Windows equivalent, my rating will be five times less.

    And while we are still waiting for the third expansion pack to hit the shelves (with an obscure price tag), "Civilization IV Complete" is available for Windows at a LOWER price than this regular Civ IV is for Mac.

    Somebody wake up and fix this!     …More

    73 of 88 people found this useful

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  • Sid Meier's Civilization IV

    5.0

    Fabulous game!
    • Written by GS from Tonbridge
    • 15-Jun-2007

    Possibly too many new features to count. Runs a little slow on my iBook but perfectly on my Intel Mac. Just be patient people!

    38 of 51 people found this useful

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