Civ4 - Review & Trailer

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

Alright, quick! Compare/contrast to Civ3 in the next 15-20 minutes. Go!

Also, keep it to actual gameplay. I don't give two shits about the graphics or the audio.

[MarkL444]

Ive never played any Civ games but it seems like something I would like. However, I only have a laptop (dell Inspiron 6000)with an integrated graphics card. (other than the [censored] card, its a good laptop) Would Civ 3 work well with that card?

tia

[jason_t]

Civ 3 ran on my old Inspiron 5x00 (can't remember x) perfectly.

[4_2_it]

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Alright, quick! Compare/contrast to Civ3 in the next 15-20 minutes. Go!

Also, keep it to actual gameplay. I don't give two shits about the graphics or the audio.

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No more pollution and cities revolting in CIV4.
Less military units, but the units are upgradable, which makes for more variety. For instance, your warriors, once they defeat a few foes, get experience points that you to upgrade them with better abilities (like jungle defense, +20% city attack, +10% strength)

You cannot enter an opponent's border without a treaty unless you declare war

Religion is totally different and plays a much bigger part in the game

No more Armies

CIV 4 has Great People which you can use to build wonders, increase science, culture

More flexibility in your government structure, Instead of governments like Monarchy, Republic, Democracy, CIV 4 has 5 or 6 different civics which have 5 or 6 options each, so your government can be very flexible.

More and better resources

Trade routes are automatic.

AI seems more intelligent

Space race victory is achieved when you build the ship

Thanks all I can think of for now, but I've only played for about 4 hours.

[astroglide]

nvidia-based desktop: fails. caused a system reboot once, permanently garbled graphics.
nvidia-based laptop: seems to work fine.
ati-based desktop: seemed to work fine, but i discovered it would randomly make units invisible.

from my experiences and those reported on the various forums already, it would appear that the game is rather buggy.

[Sephus]

i have a pentium 4, 1 GB RAM and a farily new video card, and the game gets bogged down pretty quickly. ill have to wait til i buy a new machine apparently. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[4_2_it]

I have a Dell XPS (1G RAM) that is about 1 year old and it seems to run fine.

[Voltron87]

i never played civ 3, should i get it or just get civ 4?

[4_2_it]

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i never played civ 3, should i get it or just get civ 4?

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Go right to CIV4 (and it's not even close). The learning curve will be the same and CIV4 is much better and has multiplayer.

[Voltron87]

cool. i played the original civ tons, but never really 2 or 3. i was wondering whether it was one of those "each game is the same thing as the last only better and more advanced" or whether each game is a new worthwhile game. kind of like how you wouldnt but madden 05 if you could get madden 06. im guessing it is just like that.