Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization | 
| From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 600
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: military_and_historical_strategy_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.7
MPN: PCSTK231491
Model: 710425314919
UPC: 710425314919
EAN: 0710425314919
ASIN: B001F637T4
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Civilization IV not required for play | | • | Classic game design | | • | Detailed tutorial | | • | Improved diplomacy | | • | Historical figures provide for adaptive gameplay |
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is the third offering in the Civilization IV series. A re-imagining of the classic Colonization strategy game Sid Meier created in 1994, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is a total conversion of the Civilization IV engine into a game experience in which players will lead a European nation on their quest to colonize and thrive in the New World. Players will be challenged to guide their people from the oppressive motherland, discover a New World, negotiate, trade and fight as they acquire great power and battle for their freedom and independence. Features:
- Classic Game Design: The strategy classic is rebuilt with improved visuals, while retaining the addictive gameplay and fun that are synonymous with Sid Meier games.
- Establish a New Nation: Play as the English, Spanish, French or Dutch and journey to a brave new world in search of freedom from your oppressive homeland.
- Detailed Tutorial: Enhanced tutorial helps both fans of Colonization and new players on their way to ruling the New World.
- Multiplayer Offers Tons of Replay: Compete with friends from all over the world via the Internet and "Play by Email" modes or compete locally via the Hotseat and LAN modes, offering multiple ways to conquer the New World.
- Improved Diplomacy: Sustain peace and support your followers as you engage in advanced negotiations with natives, other colonists and the hostile homeland. Trade resources, gold and land as you build the foundation for a self sufficient and powerful colony.
- Historical Figures Provide Adaptive Gameplay: Acquire founding fathers such as John Smith, Patrick Henry and Samuel Adams who will help guide your nation to freedom based on your gameplay style.
- Mods and Community Tools: Players will have limitless options for modifying the game to suit their needs. Game includes modding tools including a map editor using XML and Python.
- New Interface: Both Civilization IV fans and players new to the series will feel right at home with an interface that's been built to be accessible and easy to navigate.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 Sid Meier Nails It! September 24, 2008
Tim Challies (Oakville, Ontario)
28 out of 41 found this review helpful
It is a tough gig taking a classic game and attempting to bring it up-to-date without messing with what made it great in the first place (similar to the challenge facing film-makers when they remake a classic movie). Sid Meier has seen both success and failure in this task. While the Civilization games continue to tick along and continue to get better and better, a great many fans of Railroad Tycoon were extremely disappointed with Sid's attempt to bring that franchise to modern PCs with Sid Meier's Railroads. 2008 sees his attempt to take Colonization (first released in 1994) and update it. I'm glad to see that the results are stellar.
Civilization IV: Colonization is built on the Civilization IV engine. The graphics have been updated and look superb, but the Civ IV foundation is visible throughout--from the first moment you open the game. You'll recognize the entire process of creating a game and will even recognize many of the leaders. When the game map opens, you'll see how the graphics have been improved (light years over the original Colonization and a good step over Civ IV). The gameplay is exactly what you'd imagine if you took Colonization and mashed it with Civ IV. From Civ IV come national borders, nation-specific leaders and traits, and so on. The way the game plays out is largely unchanged from the original game. You still begin in a ship off the coast of the new world and still need to explore, build colonies, import labor from Europe, build and sell goods, deal with the natives (through either diplomacy or open warfare), contend with the other European powers, and put up with an increasingly demanding monarch. Eventually you will have to declare independence and defeat the king's armies.
Though much has changed, much has remained the same. Colonization was one of my absolute favorite games when I was a kid and on occasion I still load it on my laptop and enjoy a trip down memory lane. With the release of Civilization IV: Colonization I can enjoy it with great new graphics and some excellent advances in gameplay. Sid Meier has nailed it with this great remake of a great game. Let's hope he takes another shot at Railroad Tycoon...
If you loved the original Colonization, you will love this one more. November 11, 2008
Lynn Moorhead (San Antonio, Texas USA)
As a fan of the original Colonization, I always wondered why they never built a sequel or had any type of continuation to the game... well with this release I am pleased to say that Sid Meier and Firaxis have done an outstanding job of remaining true to the original game while significantly enhancing the game with improved graphics on the CIV-4 Engine.
For those of you who like playing with the game settings to allow your cannons &/or other pieces to move more than one space, this is still contained in a file that can be modified to play with these settings. Most of the code seems to be contained in XML and Python, but it isn't difficult to figure out if you like messing with this stuff.
The game itself has a very high replay factor, though I will advise with High Graphics settings, and if you manage to take over the whole world with lots of pieces in play, you may experience some significant delays in processing a round, but I still consider this game worth every penny.
Colonization/Civ 4 October 25, 2008
Joseph S. Riddick
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hard to learn but once you get it. Its a very fun game. Perfect for those of us that like to build our civs from the ground up. Good graphics. Extremely hard to win if your colony grows to big. Forget what you know about Civ 4. Come in ready for a fresh look.
Great game, beautifully done October 4, 2008
Storylover (Philadelphia, PA USA)
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is a remarkably fun game. I didn't realize that this was not going to be just another expansion to Civ IV, so I was a little surprised to find that it was really a completely different game. But after I got over my initial confusion, I found myself happily trading tobacco for cotton and guns, placating the natives, defying the British, and sailing the ocean blue! There is a ton of depth here, and for fans of Civ, do not be scared. This has the same kind of addiction factor that you crave. Not really that surprising, considering this is a Sid Meier creation--the man does know how to make good games. Anyway, great price, fantastic game, beautfiul graphics, intuitive interface, great game play. Go for it, you'll thank me later.
My Comments On Other Reviews October 13, 2008
Mysticism (Chicago, IL USA)
4 out of 13 found this review helpful
First off, the people complaining about SecuROM are really stooping to new lows giving this great game one star. This does not have the limitations that the other controversial games have, and SecuROM has been around for YEARS. This is a very primitive implimentation of SecuROM that is extremely lenient. Where do people get off rating this game one star over that? Sid Meier rocks, and he's applied minimal protections to this game.
Second, to the reviewer that says that if you play the game for fun you can't win, wrong wrong wrong. I've always played the game the way it's meant to be played, and it's a blast. Yes, declaring independence is tough, but it's meant to be. You can easily get a very well developed network of cities together and declare your independence, I usually have 8-10 cities by the time I do. It's called having newspapers and Elder Statesmen!
Also, in regards to indians, there are very exciting new bonuses with them like the ability to use them in diplomacy for your cause whether it be against others or just for great trade. Also, the first person to visit their camps gets a bonus which is a huge deal. Another thing the person failed to mention was the relics, artifacts, and ruins scattered about. Oh, and what about inter-colony warfare against the others trying to colonize the new world? Then there's multiplayer... it's great. I could go on and on.
This is another Sid Meier classic, and it's a damn shame that people here want to be petty about SecuROM just because of the way it was implimented in other games. Some people need to grow up, this is a 4-5 star game all around, I promise.
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