About Sid Meier's Civilization 4

Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a historical 4X grand strategy game developed by Firaxis Games, taking the series into new heights, adding new ways to play and win, new tools to manage and expand your civilization with easy-to-mod capabilities, and multiplayer game modes.

• Experience a beautifully detailed world, elevating your gameplay to a whole new level.
• Play with eighteen playable civilizations, eight of which had multiple leaders for players to choose from. Lead France as either Louis XIV or Napoleon, and America as Roosevelt or Washington.
• Regardless of which victory condition you want to achieve, you have to balance the wants and desires of your people with the need to expand and protect borders, research new technologies, and manage relationships with other civilizations.

Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Reviews

After all, there's nothing else like this online. There aren't a lot of turn-based strategy games on the market, perhaps because publishers don't think they're sexy enough. A game with this much depth, this much strategy, this much replayability, and multiplayer is totally unheard of in this space. Civilization IV stands alone. No fan of strategy games should leave this on store shelves.

GameSpy

Computer players pick up for missing humans, or the entire game can be saved and picked up later when human opponents and friends are more readily available to play. Multiplayer can be fun, especially on small maps, but overall, I still find the single-player game to feel more epic.

Gamers' Temple

One thing's for sure: Civilization 4 is a virtual guarantee to keep you up into the wee hours, playing "just one more turn." Flaws aside, any game that makes me see the sun come up is a great one.

Worth Playing

Minimum System Requirements:

• OS: Windows 2000 / XP
• CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1.2GHz, AMD Athlon
• RAM: 256MB
• HDD: 1.7GB
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 2, AMD Radeon 7500
• DirectX: 9.0c

Recommended System Requirements:

• OS: Windows 2000 / XP
• CPU: Intel Pentium 4, AMD Athlon
• RAM: 512 MB
• HDD: 1.7GB
• DirectX: 9.0c

Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Editions

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition

This CIV 4 game pack contains Sid Meier's Civilization IV and three standalone expansions, which can be played without buying the base game.

• Base Game
• Civilization IV: Warlords - The first expansion pack for Civilization IV, it pays homage to some of history's greatest military leaders, delivering six unique and interesting scenarios, giving players the chance to change the course of history with the help of new Warlord units.
• Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword - The second expansion pack, focusing on time periods after the invention of gunpowder, delivering 11 unique and challenging scenarios, ten new civilizations, sixteen new leaders, five new wonders, and a variety of new units.
• Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization - The third expansion of the game is a total conversion of the engine into a new experience in which players will lead a European nation on their quest to colonize and thrive in the New World.

Sid Meier's Civilization IV Bundle / Sid Meier's Civilization IV Classic

This game pack of Sid Meier's Civilization games contains the following base games and their respective DLCs.

• Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete - The complete CIV III experience with the updated and enhanced multiplayer expansion pack with Sid Meier's Civilization III: Play the World, new civilizations and scenarios from Sid Meier's Civilization III: Conquests.
• Sid Meier's Civilization IV - Taking the series into new heights, adding new ways to play and win, new tools to manage and expand your civilization with easy-to-mod capabilities, and multiplayer game modes.
• Sid Meier's Civilization V - Rule the world with your civilization over the centuries, starting from its first steps towards the conquest of space.
• Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth - set in the future during a time when global events have destabilized the world, leading to the collapse of modern society. A new world is being built; go into deep space and chart mankind’s new beginning.