Background: The legacy of Sid Meier's empire-building strategy series continues with Civilization IV. You're still required to help a fledging culture grow through exploration, discovery, diplomacy, and combat. Gameplay enhancements include a richer combat system that allows you to produce great leaders, increased technical finesse, and uses for ranged weapons.
Features: # Faster-Paced Fun – Gameplay has been streamlined for a tighter, faster and more compelling . # 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 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 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.
Min System Requirements: Operating System:Windows® 2000/XP
Processor:1.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent Memory:256 MB RAM (Windows 2000) (Windows XP) Hard Disk Space:1.7 GB Free
CD-ROM Drive :4X Speed
Video
irectX 9.0c-compatible with Hardware T&L support ( GeForce 2/Radeon 7500 or better) Sound
irectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
DirectX®
irectX® version 9.0c (included) or higher
Recommended System Requirements Operating System:Windows® 2000/XP
Processor:1.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent Memory:512 MB RAM Hard Disk Space:1.7 GB Free
CD-ROM Drive :4X Speed
Video:128 MB Video Card w/ DirectX 8 support (pixel & vertex shaders)
Sound
irectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
DirectX®
irectX® version 9.0c (included) or higher
Supported Operating Systems Windows XP Home or Professional w/ Service Pack 1 or higher
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