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Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 18:37

Anybody looking forward to this game?

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Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 18:59

no, civ 3 was worse than its predecessors and it sucked how they took away refrigeration and the workers never changed to engineer uniform, so always had workers walking about with a rag around their waist, this game is a dead horse.

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Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 19:02

I am. I have been looking forward to Civ IV for about a year now, ever since I got Civ III Conquests. Looks pretty good, I just hope that the game can run on 256 MB RAM. With a three-dimensional look, more unique units, realistic battle system, Civilization IV looks to be a pretty good strategy game. Civ III wasn't that bad, but it could have had a lot of improvements.

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Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 19:34

Civ 3 was made better with the conquests expansion, but frankly that should have shiped with the original.
There was a promo clip floating around, a brief glimpse of Cov4 and then some stuff about civ-addicts.
I'll try and find it.

Arrrgh!!"

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Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 19:37

www.civfanatics.com has a very good article on Civilization IV and has all the videos under its Civ IV section.

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Posted: 02-Aug-2005 at 19:37

Can someone actually goive a brief description of how the first three civ games were diff from each other?

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Posted: 05-Aug-2005 at 15:17

I saw it has the empire of Mali in it, so even if its not better than 3 Im getting it anyway now!

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Posted: 09-Aug-2005 at 19:23

Trust me, from the screens, it owns Civ III.

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Posted: 18-Aug-2005 at 13:29

Yes, I am! I liked II better than III, but I'm willing to give IV a shot. I just
hope it's released for the Mac; has anyone heard if it will be?

The screenshots are gorgeous, which you can see www.firaxis.com/games/game_detail.php?gameid=6">here if you
haven't already.

What culture do you enjoy playing the most and why?

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Posted: 18-Aug-2005 at 15:15

I like playing as the Turks because they get the Siphai, an awesome Industrial Age cavalry unit.

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Posted: 19-Aug-2005 at 18:35

Originally posted by Zagros

Can someone actually goive a brief description of how the first three civ games were diff from each other?

I think they are basically the same: better graphics, better AI, some other changes... the normal evolution of games.

NO GOD, NO MASTER!

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Posted: 20-Aug-2005 at 12:16

Yes, but some major changes in graphics from Civ 2 to Civ 3.

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Posted: 02-Sep-2005 at 16:40

I found that they really varied a lot the difficulty level from Civ2 to Civ3. I used to be able to win on a regular basis on Civ2 deity, but on Civ3, deity was really too difficult. Otherwise, I think that corruption and civ traits were the biggest changes.

Civ4 looks pretty good, but after so many years of playing different versions, I'm getting kinda sick of it.

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Posted: 03-Sep-2005 at 11:17

I have only played all of the Civ 3 versions, I get sick of it sometimes and then a month later I play again. It is fun to mod the game though.

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Posted: 05-Sep-2005 at 05:50

Originally posted by Emperor Barbarossa

Trust me, from the screens, it owns Civ III.

Looking at screenshots, Civ3 would seem better than Civ2. It wasn't, so allow me to remain sceptical.

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Posted: 05-Sep-2005 at 07:28

I never got to play Civ2, but I do not think it could be better than Conquests. The modding abilities are amazing. Graphics do not always show if a game is better than another, that is the gameplay. Graphics are just an add-on.

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Posted: 06-Sep-2005 at 00:10

Originally posted by doorman

Anybody looking forward to this game?

Not me. After Stronghold I need a serious break.

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Posted: 11-Sep-2005 at 18:33

okay I have th eproof that Civ 4 will rock, a screenshot if you will....

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Posted: 12-Sep-2005 at 15:54

Yeah, I saw that pic to. You can get an easter egg in Civ III that if you name a "New Constantinople" Not Constantinople, you get the Turkish 50's song.

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Posted: 12-Sep-2005 at 16:38

i'm not really content with the Religions:

Religion	First to Discover	Buildings & Wonders
Buddhism	Meditation	Buddhist Shrine
Christianity	Theology	Christian Shrine
Confucianism		Confucian Shrine
Hinduism	Polytheism	Hindu Shrine
Islam		Islamic Shrine
Judaism	Monotheism	Jewish Shrine
Taoism		Taoist Shrine

why including Confucianism and Taoism? those are not religions, i would have rather liked to see religions that were important in the past but declined up to now, like especially Zoroastrianism and perhaps Manichaeism or Jainism. Zoroastrianism was one of the first religions and state religion of the Sassanian empire after all.

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