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Civ 4: Beyond the Sword
Will be out either tomorrow or wednesday. Gamestop says tomorrow and Best Buy’s website says Wednesday. I played one last Warlords Game and did pretty well. I think this was my third best score in the expansion pack. So you can download it and play this last turn and add it to your high score…
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Civ 4: Warlords is Out!
Today is the official release of Civ4: Warlords! Go get it, but make sure you leave me a copy!
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[1.0] Civ 4 will be out soon!
Linux Uptime: 17 days, 2:16 Time in Civ3: 3 hours 41 min 45 seconds Score in Civ3: Eric X the Pathetic I have been playing the Civilization franchise ever since the first Dos version. At first I didn’t like it, but as I learned the complexity in the game, I began to like it more…
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Getting back into Civ4
I played some Beyond the Sword this weekend. First game was my first civ game in what has to be at least half a year. I’ve just been busy with other hobbies/games. This was the first time I was actually able to have a Corporation. I built the Sushi and Cereal corporations. Pretty interesting concept. …
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Civ4: Warlords Absolute first impression
There is a new, war oriented opening movie that kicks butt! The opening screen no longer plays the happy Lion King-like theme, but a more ominous one. Instead of a nice happy world in the background to the main menu, we have an impatient looking warrior who likes to twirl his sword. Impressive!
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My Best Civ4 Game Ever
Before I get to playing civ4: Warlods, I wanted to share my best high score ever in civ4. It was as the Eric-Chin IV of the Chinese. My final score was 7217 (the next one is 5699! as the japanese) and I finished in 1988 AD with a Domination victory in Chieftain difficulty. I might…
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New Civ4 Game Started
I’ll post my file from my last game soon. Just started a new civ4 game with 2 new elements. First of all, I’m playing pangea so boats are irrelevant. Second, I’m playing Germans which have some differences from previous civs I’ve played (Japanese and Chinese). One primary difference is that the German special unit comes…
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Playing Civ4 on the New Computer
At first, Civ4 seemed not to play much better on this computer with twice the stats of my old machine. Yeah, the game didn’t take 15 minutes to load, but it wasn’t as close to instantaneous as I’d hoped. But then I slowly began to see the places where Civ4 was much better on this…
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Civ4 Computers Fighting
I was surprised that, by only raising the level of difficulty by one, the computer opponents in civ4 began to fight each other. In this instance, it was to my advantage because Washington of the Americans attacked Peter of the Russians, who I was planning to attack anyway. I think I will play my fourth…
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civ4 patch released!
I’m a couple of days late, but – the patch is out! Click on advanced -> check for updates. Civfantics.com has the details of the patch.
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My second civ4 game is over
My second civ4 game is over and I did MUCH better this time! I won a Space Race instead of just having the highest score upon end of turns like last game. This earned me a score of # – Neville Chamberlain! Here is my save file if you wish to add it to your…
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Ending my second civ4 game
I’ve got a little more than 100 turns left in my second game ofciv4. As my first game served to teach me many new concepts in the civ series, I have fared much better. One of the key concepts I’ve learned is that barbarians are everywhere, even in Settler mode. Previously, in the easiest difficulty…
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My first Civ4 Game
Here’s a save file from my first civ game. All you need to do is load up the game and hit “enter” to complete my turn. This will give you something to compete against in your Hall of Fame – unless you’re way better than me. My brothers and I started doing this with Civ3…
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Civ4 from another’s perspective
If you think that my review of Civ4 was a bit too rosy, check out this review by Tara, who has a review close the middle, but a little more towards the negative side. A verteran civ gamer, like myself, she found herself basically feeling something was different without quite being able to put her…
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In depth Civ4 coverage continues with Navy/Airforce Review
Another area where civ4 has become more balanced for me is in the role the sea and air units play. Although I was always primarily a winner by culture in civ3 and space race in civl/2, whenever I *was* faced with aggression, it was usually my armies that did the heavy lifting. I almost never…