Sid Meier's Civilization IV

Also known as: Civilization IV, Sid Meier's Civilization 4, Civ IV, Sid Meier's Civilisation IV

Sid Meier's Civilization Chronicles (PC)

Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Publisher: 2K Games

E10+ for Everyone 10+ Language, Mild Fantasy Violence

Sid Meier's Civilization IV (PC)

Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Publisher: 2K Games

E10+ for Everyone 10+ Violence

Sid Meier's Civilization IV (Complete Edition) (PC)

Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Publisher: 2K Games

E10+ for Everyone 10+ Alcohol and Tobacco Reference, Mild Violence

Sid Meier's Civilization IV (Gold Edition) (PC)

Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Publisher: 2K Games

E10+ for Everyone 10+ Violence

Sid Meier's Civilization IV (Special Edition) (PC)

Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 24, 2005
Publisher: 2K Games

E10+ for Everyone 10+ Violence

Expansion packs related to this game:
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (PC)
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords (PC)

Also available on: Macintosh

Multiplayer

Online Multiplayer - Versus: 16

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• Faster-Paced Fun – Gameplay has been streamlined for a tighter, faster and more compelling experience.
• Greater Accessibility and Ease of Play – An easy-to-use interface will be immediately familiar to RTS and action game players, and newcomers to the series will be able to jump in and play.
• Tech Tree – Flexible Tech tree allows players more strategic choices for developing their civilizations along unique paths.
• More Civs, Units, and Improvements to enhance and grow your empire.
• Multiplayer – LAN, Internet, PBEM and Persistent Turn-Based Server (PTBS) offer players all-new strategies and ways to play when competing or cooperating with live opponents.
• Team Play - Whether playing multiplayer or single player, team play offers a new way of setting locked alliances that result in shared wonder effects, visibility, unit trading and shared territory that delivers a plethora of new strategic and tactical options.
• Civ IV comes to life! - Beautiful 3D world with dozens of fully animated units (including culturally unique units) and totally customizable armies. Cities and wonders will appear on the map. Wonder movies are back!
• Mods and Community Tools - Designed from the ground up for modability, the game contains a powerful map editor with XML and Python support.
• Choose Your Leader – Most Civs now have 2 leaders from which to choose, with each Leader having traits that provide various bonuses to the player.
• Civics – With the discovery of new techs, civic options can become available. Freedom of speech or slavery? Hereditary rule or open elections? This creates endless government choices and possibilities!
• Religion – Now there are 7 religions in the game that are unlocked through researching. When unlocked, the religion spreads through a player’s empire allowing them to use the religion to help manage happiness, gain gold and create Great Prophets.
• Great People - As the player uses specialists they gain Great People points in the city that is utilizing the specialists. Great People include the Artist, Tycoon, Prophet, Engineer, & Scientist. They can be used to get free techs, start Golden Ages, or join a city to increase its output.
• Promotions – Each unit has a promotion path that emphasizes specific unit traits. Promotions include bonuses to Attack/Defend on specific terrains/features, movement bonuses, sight/visibility bonuses and increased withdrawal chances.
• In-Game Movies – Civ IV will have over 70 in-game movies.