Civilization 4

Basics: Developed by Firaxis Games, Published by 2K. Released only for PC (hooray!). Rated E 10+ for violence. It is a turn based strategy game.

Civilization is yet another huge franchise and in fact is one of the oldest, the first game dating back to the early nineties. Civilization 4 is an excellent and entertaining game that has kept me busy for hours. Anyone who is familiar with this game now that it is basically a big souped up board game (as a side note there is also an actual board game based on civilization, I have played it and it is also very good)

The game spans from around 3000 B.C. (when man began settling down and “Civilizing”) to the near future 2050 A.D. The game features 18 different civilizations to be and 26 different leaders, each offering there own advantages to the game.

Many things have been upgraded from civilization 3. There are more than triple the buildings, there are four new kinds of great people and, of course the extra leaders.

The AI is excellent. I really enjoyed learning how to deal with the different personalities (don’t get an open borders pact with Genghis Kahn :D). Yep it would really be an awesome game if it didn’t crash me to the Blue Screen Of Death! Yes the game ever so often decides to critical error and force me to reboot (I have it fully updated as of this post). Granted, it got a little better after I updated my video drivers, but the game still occasionally bugs out pretty bad.

One thing of note that I wouldn’t usually mention is of all things, the soundtrack. I found it very pleasant and varied, one can really tell that there was extra effort put into it and I pays off.

All in all Civilization 4 is a good game that could just use a few more patches

6.9/10