Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition
- The ultimate strategy game, offering players the chance to lead their chosen nation from the dawn of man through the space age
- Build the most powerful empire and become the greatest ruler the world has ever known
- Civilization comes to life in a beautifully detailed, living 3D world--with all-new easy-to-use mod capabilities and intense multiplayer modes and options
- Includes both Civilization IV and the combat-focused Warlords Expansion Pack
- Gold Edition bonus items include fantasy-style poster, behind-the-scenes DVD, tech-tree poster, and Civilization IV manual
Product Description
The classic strategy game combined with its incredible expansion pack, for the Civ IV strategy action you crave. / Rated T: Teen
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV is the ultimate strategy game offering players the chance to lead their chosen nation from the dawn of man through the space age on a quest to build the most powerful empire and become the greatest ruler the world has ever known. Now, Civ fans can experience more world domination than ever before with Civilization IV: Gold Edition, which includes both Civilization IV and the combat-focused Warlords Expansion Pack! Box Contents Include: - Sid Meier's Civilization IV - You won't want to miss one of the most critically-acclaimed PC games ever from legendary designer Sid Meier. Play as one of history's greatest leaders and battle, negotiate, strategize and explore your way to world conquest. All of human history is at your fingertips.
- Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords - In this first expansion pack to Civilization IV, players have even more options to win by military might - including the devastating Warlords unit. Six new civilizations, ten new leaders and eight additional scenarios just scratch the surface of new content added to the already massive core game.
- Gold Edition Bonus Items:
- Fantasy-style poster set within the world of Sid Meier's Civilization from Greg Hildebrandt, the illustrator of the world famous 1977 Star Wars fantasy-themed movie poster, the Clash of the Titans movie poster, various Lord of the Rings calendars and posters and many others.
- Behind-the-Scenes DVD featuring developer interviews, insight into the Civ IV development process and featurette on Sid Meier's history in the gaming industry.
- Tech-tree poster featuring the paths to researching and discovering all of the technologies needed to advance in Civilization IV.
- Civilization IV Manual
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition
- CD-ROM: 0 pages (2007-07-17)
- Platforms: Windows XP
- Publisher: Take 2
- Label: Take 2
- Studio: Take 2
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 40 reviews
- Sales Rank in Software: #572
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Civ Rules 2008-08-25
Comment: Been playing Civ since the first edition back in the mid 90s when I bought my first puter. Love this game and Civ IV just proves that it's one of the best games ever! Sooner or later, I'll order Civ V, just haven't done it yet. Still having too much fun with IV and it's expansion.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: It's a lot of fun! 2008-08-18
Comment: I bought this as a birthday gift for a friend's teenage boy. He couldn't quit playing it. He says its the best one yet.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Fun game, annoying support 2008-08-11
Comment: I bought the Gold edition and the Beyond the Sword expansion pack and overall I think this game is excellent when you are playing it. I really have to say it is addictive and as long as you are happy with the game right out of the box and assuming you are not the type of person to read the manual anyway you will love it.
Unfortunately it had a few shortcomings:
- documentation claimed that the full manual was on disc 3 (Gold) but at least on mine it wasn't there. I emailed support and they told me to go download it off some third party site. When I responded politely that they must be joking and they must have a pdf version of the full manual somewhere they sent me a link to a pdf of the full manual...who knows why they told me to go hunt one down myself the first time.
- when you go to download an update there is no progress bar so you sit there and wonder if it's almost done, how much longer, etc. The only way you know the update is still running is when you go to click on something else and it tells you that you may not proceed until the update is complete. It might take a really long time depending on how fast your connection is and you pretty much just sit there wondering.
- I checked out the website and it is pretty barren for such a great game, and you can find some of the links are broken on the website so it seems like they don't really maintain the site much.
- some parts of the game itself are somewhat clunky like the Civilopedia. It is pretty decent although they could have added more information to it and the interface for it is pretty poor. I wanted to know what caused the global warming effect and of course that wasn't in there so I ended up chasing down the full game manual just so I can find out what game effect made it (using nukes apparently).
- the only real game issue I had with it was when you get to the end of a game and just barely scratch the surface on super-tech things like space-elevators and interstellar spacecraft it's all over. Years ago I played the Call to Power game and the one thing that I loved about that game was the high-tech. Underwater cities, extreme eco-terrorists (I loved the ability to eco-nuke a city) and stuff like that. None of that here...at least yet (cross my fingers).
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Not as good as Civ 3 2008-08-05
Comment: i would rather play Civ 3 than CivIV.I like the graphics better on Civ 3 better as well.Civ seems to have losts its way.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Great game, wish I'd bought the Complete Edition 2008-07-01
Comment: I got to this game a few years after it came out, but I am not at all dissapointed in the content. The only thing I wish is that I'd have bought the complete edition (which I didn't know existed), instead of buying this edition and Beyond the Sword separately.
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