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Sid Meier's Civilization IV

CIV IV Rules

Written by CZ from Mill Valley

Jul 1, 2006

I bought this game and it provides many hours of fun.

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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.

419 of 624 people found this useful

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Do not buy this game

Written by KM from Columbus

Jul 6, 2006

Once you play this game, your social life goes away. The music is great, the civilizations are much more detailed than the previous versions. If you are into programing this includes a mod application to tweek up the interests. If you are not into modding, there are plenty of sites out there that will allow you to change units, technology research, leaders, traits, religion, and much more.

The two things I like most about this game, the religion factor and the great person factor. The graphics are great and it includes an alarm clock so you can alledgely monitor your game play. Your significant other will hate you and will eventually start yelling at you in new languages and will even sing the new songs.

48 of 69 people found this useful

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Fun, but VERY slow, even on recent Macs.

Written by CF from Midlothian

Jul 8, 2006

I've had this game for about a week now, and while it offers fun with an educational bent, it performs surprisingly slow on my dual 2.3GHz G5 with 1GB of RAM and 256MB of video RAM. I have to drop the quality of the graphics to the lowest possible levels to make the game even playable, and still I see frequent dropped frames, skipped animations and audio cutting in and out. I followed the Read Me's recommendation to set my processor performance level to Highest, but that did not seem to help. The performance is very disappointing.

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Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Good Game but ...

Written by MS from York

Jul 9, 2006

... I have an iMac G5, 2.1 ghz, 1 gig Ram, 128 vRam, OS C 10.4.7, etc. and the game is jumpy, choppy and the sound cuts in and out. The fact that I still think its a good game and that I gave it three stars speaks volumes as to what I feel is a great concept but, come on, its not like I am using a G3 Mac running OS 9 here

47 of 64 people found this useful

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Slow, but why?

Written by PP from Rutherford

Jul 12, 2006

I'm running it on a dual 2.3GHz G5 with 1.5GB of RAM and 256MB of video RAM. as said previously: music cuts in and out, seems to take far too long to calculate moves. Plus i think the interface is confusing and the game board is far too cluttered. it's hard to see whats going on. Civ3 was far superior.

43 of 57 people found this useful

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!!!

438 of 774 people found this useful

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Sound/Performance problems, get the patch!

Written by GW from Seattle

Jul 21, 2006

This is a beta of a patch from the developers of Civ IV for the mac. It fixes many of the performance and sound problems. The final patch is due out later that should fix the rest of the sound problems. You can read about the patch and get it from the "Civ IV - Macintosh" form from this web site: forums.civfanatics.com.

44 of 51 people found this useful

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Excellent Game

Written by LL from Corona

Jul 24, 2006

I have been playing it for about a week now. I had Civ 3. The new game is very different in its graphic representation, far more spectacular. It's a playable game, a fun game and if you like strategy style non-arcade games, you'll like this. It played perfectly on my G-5 dual 2MHz and on my MacBook Pro.

Highly recommended

66 of 99 people found this useful

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Really Fun... the First time

Written by CG from Leesburg

Jul 28, 2006

With my Intel iMac the game ran fine from the most part. Towards the end, when i was at war with two places at the same time, and there were a lot of units moving and a lot going on, it slowed down a little. My iMac has 1.83 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 128 vRAM, it meet all the system requirements, and all but one of the recomended specs. The only problem i had with this game is i could only play it once. I got bored after the first game, one reason is because the start is basically the same every game up until at least the AD time periods, but i don't last that long before quitting or moding. Which is the other problem, when i started my second game i discovered the World Editor. Now i have trouble fighting the urge to mod, and both way (modded and not) seem to bore me. I had a lot of fun with Civ III, i was able to play that one a lot more, i don't know what the difference is now. I think i will be putting my game up on ebay soon, so if you have not bought it already look out for a used Civ IV game.

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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.

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Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Great game

Written by JJ

Aug 12, 2006

works horribly on intel iMacs. Full of bugs. Every time i start it up I have to watch the entire intro movie, and it crashes every 10 minutes or so

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Sid Meier's Civilization IV

lousy

Written by MC from Edmonton

Aug 24, 2006

I have an 17in macbook pro, with 2gig of ram, runs slow, crashes a lot, and is full of bugs. Patch helped very little. Nothing but an exercise in frustration. Don't waste your time.

58 of 89 people found this useful

Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Not a Good Game

Written by BC from BELLINGHAM

Sep 2, 2006

I bought this game recentley at a local gameshop. When I browsed through the manual i saw that it was a turn based game. I started playing and i relized how stupid it was. You can only do a few things before the end of your turn. I quit after 30 minutes

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Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Disappointed

Written by LB from alexandria

Sep 4, 2006

The new civ 4 performs horribly on the intel imac. Movement is jerky, sound cuts in and out and at a certain stage in the game the graphics go black. I was also disappointed with the graphics, the game seems like a throwback to pre civ 3. I eventually uninstalled civ 4 and reinstalled civ 3(the classic version of the game). Civilization is my all time favorite game for the pc, so you can imagine, after the long wait for civ 4, the disappointment of being offered shoddy goods. I hope. if there is a civ 5, that everyone involved in the project, will take a little pride in themselves and prove to us that they have the ability to continue to develop quality successors to civ 3.

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Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Not good

Written by DM from SALEM

Sep 6, 2006

I wanted to get civ 3 but it wouldn't run on my Intel mac book. I got civ 4 instead, expecting it to be like civ 3. But it's not the same. It takes to long to tell everything exactly what to do every turn but if you put them on automate then I don't really feel like I'm playing, I'm just pressing "next turn". I was very disappointed with this game, it wasn't at all what I was expecting.

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Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Great Game!!!

Written by SP

Sep 6, 2006

This game is great once you get a hold of the controls. The graphics are great and its really fun. There is some really great features that make it much better than the 3rd.
I really recomend it to anyone who likes turn based games.

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Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Civilization IV

Written by AK from New York

Sep 15, 2006

Civilization: Call to power is great. I want Call to power for OS X. Civilization IV is disappointting.

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