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Sid Meier's Civilization® IV

by Firaxis Games

Released Oct 25, 2005
$19.99
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)

92%positive reviews

3,418 positive282 negative

What players say

Pros

Deep, open-ended strategy with many routes to victory
Long-lasting replay value

Cons

Crashes and bugs on modern systems
Online version has frequent problems

Mixed

Some call it a great Civ, others find it crashes too often

Media

Game intro (YouTube)

System requirements

Minimum: Windows 2000/XP, 1.2GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent, 256MB RAM, 64 MB Video Card w/ Hardware T&L (GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better) DirectX7 compatible sound card, 1.7GB of free hard drive space, DirectX9.0c (included)

Recommended: Windows 2000/XP, 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent/better, 512 MB RAM, 128 MB Video Card w/ DirectX 8 support (pixel and vertex shaders), DirectX7 compatible sound card, 1.7GB of free hard drive space, DirectX9.0c (included)

Sid Meier and Firaxis Games will take this incredibly fun and addictive game to new heights by adding new ways to play and win, new tools to manage and expand your civilization, all-new easy to use mod capabilities and intense multiplayer modes and options

Ratings

85IGDB players308 ratings
95Critics3 reviews
90Overall311 scores

Languages

Language	Interface	Full audio	Subtitles
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish (Spain)

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