Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Rule throughout time and create your own legacy as you guide your civilization from the dawn of man through the space age and beyond with Civilization IV. 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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Overview
Sid Meier's Civilization IV comes to life like never before in a beautifully detailed, living 3D world that expands the gameplay experience. This latest installment takes the Civilization franchise to new heights with the addition of new ways to play and win, new tools to manage and expand your civilization, all-new easy to use mod capabilities and various multiplayer modes and options.
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Features
- Faster-paced fun--Gameplay has been streamlined for a tighter, faster and more compelling experience.
- Greater accessibility and ease of play--An easy-to-use interface will be immediately familiar to RTS and action game players, and newcomers to the series will be able to jump in and play.
- Tech tree--Flexible Tech tree allows players more strategic choices for developing their civilizations along unique paths.
- Grow bigger empires--More Civilizations, Units and Improvements to enhance and grow your empire.
- Multiplayer--LAN, Internet and play-by-email offer players all-new strategies and ways to play when competing or cooperating with live opponents.
- Team Play - Whether playing multiplayer or single player, team play offers a new way of setting locked alliances that result in shared wonder effects, visibility, unit trading, and shared territory that delivers a plethora of new strategic and tactical options.
- Beautiful 3D world - Sid Meier's Civilization IV comes to life with a beautiful 3D world. Cities and wonders will appear on the map. Wonder movies are back!
- Mods and community tools--Designed from the ground up for modability, the game contains a powerful map editor with XML and Python support.
- Choose your leader--Most Civilizations now have two leaders from which to choose.
- Civics--With the discovery of new techs, civic options can become available.
- Religion--Now there are seven religions in the game that are unlocked through researching.
- Great people--As you use specialists you gain Great People points in the city that is utilizing the specialists. Great People include the Artist, Tycoon, Prophet, Engineer and Scientist.
- Promotions--Each unit has a promotion path that emphasizes specific unit traits.
- In-Game cinematics--Sid Meier's Civilization IV has over 40 in-game cinematics.
System Requirements
- Mac OS X v10.4.6 or later
- 2.0GHz or faster G5 or Intel Core processor
- 1GB RAM
- 3.5GB free hard-disk space
- 128MB VRAM
- ATI Radeon 9600 or NVidia GeForce FX 5200 or higher (Supported cards include ATI Radeon 9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X600, X800, X850, X1600; NVidia GeForce 5200, 6600, 6800, 7800)
- DVD drive
- Internet (TCP/IP) and LAN (TCP/IP) for multiplayer play; Internet play requires broadband connection
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Most Useful Reviews
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Beautiful
Written by PW from Cross River
Aug 2, 2006
When I lost my Civ III disc about a month ago, I though I was going to cry. Then I browsed around to see if a new one was out yet, and i read that they were developing it for the mac. The moment it hit the shelves I bought it and I cant put it down. Think of Civ III, Copy it twice, put the two together and you've got Civ IV. To a person who likes Shooting Games like Doom or Medal of Honor, consider this but be prepared should you be to be let down. To a person who loves strategy games like The Sims 2, Civ III, and/or Simcity 4. This IS your Game. …More
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Civ IV is awesome.
Written by JR from Short Hills
Jul 6, 2006
I bought this game yesterday after hearing many good things. I anxiously waited as it installed, then quickly played through the tutorial because I have never played any previous games from the franchise. I was instantly hooked. At first I wasn't sure if I would like the turn based style of the game, as when I purchased it I had thought it was more of an RTS. It almost does play like real time, the game moves quickly and is very fun. It runs great on my standard 2.16 ghz MacBook Pro. …More
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Horrible performance outweighs improvements
Written by CL from Wenatchee
Jul 17, 2006
The Civ games have been my top favorites over the years, absorbing more hours of my time than any other games of any format on any platform, so I have anticipated this Mac release for a year now. I can hardly express how extremely disappointed I have been with this program. I'm using a 9 month old iMac G5 1.9 GHz/1.5 GB RAM/OS 10.4.7/Radeon X600 Pro, which exceeds all minimum requirements and meets all recommended requirements except 2.0 GHz speed. I have tried all settings, followed all recommendations, and finally resorted to the lowest graphic options possible, and yet - the game cannot even scroll across the screen smoothly! Response is incredibly slow and jerky at all times. I never thought I would say this, but I actually wish I had bought the PC version of a game!!! …More
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Most Recent Reviews
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Civilization IV: Vanilla
Written by LH from San Francisco
Nov 24, 2009
Don't get me wrong. It's a great game, but it lacks multiplayer support as there is no huge Mac fan base for this game. The replayability is low due to the lack of multiplayer in Game Ranger. Someone should really make a hybrid support for Game Spy for cross-platform multiplayer like Blizzard's Battle.net that is my opinion. Three Stars for a great game and lack of multiplayer support from Aspyr. …More
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Hardware, compatibility issues, even under Windows
Written by SC from Goshen
May 29, 2009
I'm a huge fan of the game. New aluminum Macbook 2.4GHZ 4Gb ram.
Latest Patch with Warlords. Ran under Windows. Just like the other comments after 10 minutes the computer overheats and freezes. Restart, same issue.
Tech support recommends downsizing the graphics settings in the game (low-mid)
How many $$$ for a macbook when the old PC ran it fine? …More21 of 29 people found this useful
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV
Ehhh..it's ok.
Written by JH from Hilliard
Mar 19, 2009
O.K. I bought this game, always having thought it was the exact same as age of empires, just a different version. This one I didn't care for so much as I didn't realize it was turn based before I bought it. I didn't do enough research. If you're not familiar with turn based, it's nothing like Age of Empires. Your units can only move a few tiles at a time, and then you have to end your turn and let the other civilization make a move. Luckily the Apple store is allowing me to do an exchange, which I will be exchanging for Age of Empires III. The apple store has great customer service. …More
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Questions & Answers
Most Interesting
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Will this game run smoothly on a Macbook running Snow Leopard?
- Asked by NN
- Oct 8, 2009
