Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 275
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: Military and Historical Strategy Games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Gold
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.4
MPN: 710425311833
UPC: 710425311833
EAN: 0710425311833
ASIN: B000RHFZTM
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Box has some shelf wear. Open box, but CD looks new.
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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From the Manufacturer
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
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 It's a lot of fun! August 18, 2008
Ronda L. Horne (Augusta, GA USA)
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.
 Fun game, annoying support August 11, 2008
S. Hinkle (PA USA)
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).
Not as good as Civ 3 August 5, 2008
Daniel Greer (louisiana)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Great game, wish I'd bought the Complete Edition July 1, 2008
Simon A. Carroll
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Awesome game, if you have a FAST computer June 17, 2008
Creation27 (San Jose, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've been playing Civilization Games since the game first came out. Even when there were two different brands Sid Meier's and non-Sid Meier, I bought both to see which was better. (Obviously Sid Meier's versions was ;)
This game is FANTASTIC! The requirements are incredably high though and often my PC would lag as the game progressed, taking longer and longer for the computer to compute each turn. I upgraded my computer's RAM though and that largely solved the problem.
If you like ANY of the other Civilization games, you'll love this one. I wouldn't say this is a sequel though, because it's more like a whole new Civilization game.
Also, I would recommend getting the Beyond the Sword expansion along with this for a life changing experience.
Lastly, make sure you check out "Sid Meier's Alpha Centaury." It is INCREDIBLY hard but is FANTASTIC!!! It has Customizable Units and you can even take control of the native flora and fauna.
Make sure you have a lot of time on your hands if you're going to play this game though, as it can easily consume 8 hours of you day without you even realizing it.
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