Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
posted by firebird21 (DALLAS, TX) Jun 26, 2012
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Sid is back with a Civ 4. Now if you have never played a Civ before just know its an aquired taste like clams, or dog meat.
Always time consuming Civ 4 follows a turn based strategy, and allows the player to start from literally nothing. Turn your small village of rock thowers into a bursting metropolis filled with wonders, or be a complete douchebag, and watch as your people suffer, and revolt against you.
Play how you want by customizing your map settings. Do you perfer a barren destert, or a frozen tundra. Do you want to conquer the world with the mongol horde or perhaps you want the world to be in awe of your Civs technolgy. Civ 4 is all about perference and choice, and you get to choose everything from how fast the game plays to the age of the world (not really sure why), and everything inbetween.
You can make the game as easy or as difficult as you would like, but higher difficulty levels requires a large amount of micro-management which in turn is EXTREMELY TIME CONSUMING. Lucky you can set many of the options like workers, production, and promotions to auto so at least you can save a couple of hours.
The AI is fairly solid even though at times it seems the game has it in for you. The other leaders populating your world are rarley peaceful, and will attack if they see your weak. On harder difficulties they will even form alliances to try and take you down. Lucky you can do the same. Become friends with other civs and form defensive pacts so you know your never alone, or if your good play them against each other, and watch as the world descends into war, and chaos. Muhaahahh....ha..... moving right along
Overall Civ has always been one of my favorite TBS games because you can play it how you want to play it. If you try it and like it, hurry out and pick up Civ V, and its newest expand Gods and kings.
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