I agree the game is beautiful and addictive...but not for long. The entire game can be summed up as a mindless clickfest. Everything is random clicking, it doesn't matter which building or tech you pick, everyone ends up in the same place in the same amount of time. You end up getting all the techs anyway, so research becomes meaningless.
The computer players just want war all the time, and the AI is weak. Also, taking over cities is very frustrating, requiring hundreds of units to take over a decent sized city. I won't even get into how aggrivating it is when a catapult destroys my attack helicopters or musketmen take out my marines.
Needless to say, I played this for a day or two and uninstalled it.
snnyUnregistered4 years ago
Can' wait to play my favourite game! my laptop doesn't have a dvd drive, so one of my firend some how managed to put the entire game into my computer (with an iso extention) but still cant run the game.. says it need the proper dvd... isn't there any way i can play it without a dvd drive?!??!
MartinUnregistered3 years ago
Too easy, every other Civ game has had the element of toughness, a slight difference for which ever civilisation you chose, not this time, now it does not matter who you choose they are all the same, frustrating to the point of annoyance, I managed to complete the game in 3 hours, out of all the Civ genre games I must vote for Alpha Centauri with expansion disc, at least with that format, the different Civ's had different goals.
PhenomUnregistered3 years ago
What is the song in Civilization IV?
the song that plays when you are in main menu?
Happy_AndyUnregistered3 years ago
Hello Phenom, just to answer your question...I have no idea what the name of the song is but I can help you get it. After you install the game just go to start, search, for files or folders, then click on all files and folders, then type openingmenu. Just like that, no spaces. You will get the song you are looking for. And, just a tip to everyone out there that has heard a song in a game or anything that you really like...always remember that the game is only able to play those sounds or songs because they are installed onto your computer when you install the game so you can find any songs that are in the game somewhere in the main folder that the game was installed in. Hope that helps :)
Gareth EvansUnregistered1 month ago
The game is good but no where near as good as it's made out to be. The major problem is the lack of *macro management* tools.
Once in modern times, the sheer hassle of manually loading planes on carriers, manually moving them, manually clicking each plane to attack, the screen flicking over to the next manual unit etc; it gets tedious beyond belief.
Also you are pretty much "railroaded" down they way our Civs have previously developed. This is just not as fun as say Galactiv Civilizations (which offers lots of empire management tools), or Alpha Centauri, which allows custom unit design and the ability to set planes on repeated auto runs etc.
Also the tech whoring AI is ridiculous, as Max says below everyone ends up at pretty much the same tech level. The game feels bland and degenerates into an almighty click fest at the end.
I beat it on Prince level on the latest patch which is apparently quite hard; its more hassle than fun, there are better games out there nowadays, and frankly Firaxis have yet to beat Alpha Centauri, but then they may never do since Brain Reynolds left.
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I agree the game is beautiful and addictive...but not for long. The entire game can be summed up as a mindless clickfest. Everything is random clicking, it doesn't matter which building or tech you pick, everyone ends up in the same place in the same amount of time. You end up getting all the techs anyway, so research becomes meaningless.
The computer players just want war all the time, and the AI is weak. Also, taking over cities is very frustrating, requiring hundreds of units to take over a decent sized city. I won't even get into how aggrivating it is when a catapult destroys my attack helicopters or musketmen take out my marines.
Needless to say, I played this for a day or two and uninstalled it.
Can' wait to play my favourite game! my laptop doesn't have a dvd drive, so one of my firend some how managed to put the entire game into my computer (with an iso extention) but still cant run the game.. says it need the proper dvd... isn't there any way i can play it without a dvd drive?!??!
Too easy, every other Civ game has had the element of toughness, a slight difference for which ever civilisation you chose, not this time, now it does not matter who you choose they are all the same, frustrating to the point of annoyance, I managed to complete the game in 3 hours, out of all the Civ genre games I must vote for Alpha Centauri with expansion disc, at least with that format, the different Civ's had different goals.
What is the song in Civilization IV?
the song that plays when you are in main menu?
Hello Phenom, just to answer your question...I have no idea what the name of the song is but I can help you get it. After you install the game just go to start, search, for files or folders, then click on all files and folders, then type openingmenu. Just like that, no spaces. You will get the song you are looking for. And, just a tip to everyone out there that has heard a song in a game or anything that you really like...always remember that the game is only able to play those sounds or songs because they are installed onto your computer when you install the game so you can find any songs that are in the game somewhere in the main folder that the game was installed in. Hope that helps :)
The game is good but no where near as good as it's made out to be. The major problem is the lack of *macro management* tools.
Once in modern times, the sheer hassle of manually loading planes on carriers, manually moving them, manually clicking each plane to attack, the screen flicking over to the next manual unit etc; it gets tedious beyond belief.
Also you are pretty much "railroaded" down they way our Civs have previously developed. This is just not as fun as say Galactiv Civilizations (which offers lots of empire management tools), or Alpha Centauri, which allows custom unit design and the ability to set planes on repeated auto runs etc.
Also the tech whoring AI is ridiculous, as Max says below everyone ends up at pretty much the same tech level. The game feels bland and degenerates into an almighty click fest at the end.
I beat it on Prince level on the latest patch which is apparently quite hard; its more hassle than fun, there are better games out there nowadays, and frankly Firaxis have yet to beat Alpha Centauri, but then they may never do since Brain Reynolds left.