Sunday, October 30, 2005

The Makers of Civilization IV care about their customers

Civilization, the classic computer game encompassing all of history, is back. The fourth release came out this week and I picked it up yesterday.

I am quoting directly from the manual here:


The Clock Options Screen lets you turn on and off a clock to time how long you've been playing, as well as set an alarm to let you know when you should stop playing and go to work. Or eat.


Of course, they had the fabulous ad campaign at civanon.org which appears to be down (overwhelmed or ended, I'm not sure.) I'm happy to announce that the game seems no less addictive and I made good use of my extra hour this weekend. In particular, many of the more tedious actions have been removed, automated or at least present you with more choices so that it's not A, B, repeat.

So if I vanish for a while...yeah, you know where I am. I just have to get my civilization to research Gunpowder...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Argh! I'm way too busy to even think about Civ right now, but I'm thinking about it anyway. On the other hand, even if I had a copy of Civ IV I wouldn't be able to play it right now: Kim's old computer probably can't handle it, and the Mac version won't be out until sometime next year. Once I get it, though, I'll be eager to give the multi-player modes a whirl.

So I'll just mope jealously here for a little bit. :)

I like the clock thing, by the way! They're really cool.

In fact, a whole lot of things about this version sound really good. (No more "smallpox" strategy, for one.)

Stevis said...

I have less than the recommended, but more than the minimum, ram, and unfortunately that means the hard drive is getting a workout--to the point of overheating my laptop, because i don't have great circulation with it and the apartment is too warm today. (Damn South.) Since it is 3-d graphics I think it will blow a lot its demographic out of the water...

You should probably focus on graduating before the Mac version comes out and all will be well.

Anonymous said...

I have Civilizations 2 and 3. They are good enough for me. As it is I hardly play them because they are just too addictive. 4 should be fun!

--shane