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7 out of 16 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Civilization IV demo
Pros: Love it, Love it, Love it! Excellent gameplay and addicting game. Changes everytime you play it!
Cons: Windows 2000/XP, 1.2GHz CPU, 256MB RAM
512MB RAM for XP! To much RAM
Poor design on memory use!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
2 stars
Version: Civilization IV demo
"Buy only if you haven't played the series before."
Pros: Ok, it has afew minor new features, but possibly the 2 greatest improvements are computer IQ and early city development. After 1, 2,3 Civ, AC Civ etc, the major loopholes in military gameplay have been essentially closed. Also slightly better playing steamlining.
If you haven't played the series to date, then it's worth buying. It will give you weeks or more likely months of playtime.
Cons: I must say that some of the hyped up new features are more gimmick than substance. After playing the other Civ series games, I find that there isn't enough original development and substancially make this better and justify the expense of Civ 4 + expansions. And you need the expansions to make this a proper game. Civ 4 on it's own is really just 1/2 a game.
For those of us who played multiple prior Civ series games before, there isn't enough in this new version to hold our interest. It just gets too tiring to do it all again. (essentially, not enough original content & development).
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10 out of 11 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Civilization IV demo
"Make sure you've got the recommended system!"
Pros: The game has been improved. You can automate workers in several different ways, which is a nice improvement, and the graphics look like they'd be great if my system could handle them. Animated leaders and Sid Meier in the tutorial were just teeth and eyes. But the maps are much more detailed, and there are improvements in governing features and city improvements too. It's quite an update.
Cons: This game is going to hog your memory and bog down your computer if you don't have some serious computing power. My 2.1 ghz with 640 megs of memory couldn't handle it. It's a much updated game, so even hardened Civ fans will need the tutorial.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Civilization IV demo
"Wonderful addition to the Civ family!"
Pros: I have played all four cultures in the demo, six ways to Sunday and my computer has not even blinked. I have an AMD Duron processor, 528 ram, nvidia Geforce4 graphics card. I barely meet the low end of the passable reqs for the program. When it starts it does say I will have problems but so far with the demo I have had none.
I look forward to getting the full version and being able to go beyond 100 turns.
Additional pros include animated livestock, there is nothing cuter than cavorting sheep....;). All in all the interface and the feel is more freindly to this female player.
Cons: I would have liked the demo to have had a female leader available so I could see if that impacts the gameplay any, but otherwise it was a really nice experience.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Civilization IV demo
"Better than all prior Civ versions."
Pros: You can decide on what type of game you want, short, long, mega long ;) Pretty much all around great game play.
Cons: Sometimes takes up too much memory. Make sure you have a good graphics card and plenty of memory when playing this game.
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