Civ4 Warlords Review on Game Revolution: A-

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Game Revolution has posted their review of Civilization IV: Warlords, giving it an A- rating. The reviewer wrote that the Warlords expansion is "exactly what Civ IV needs" by adding more of everything. Here is an excerpt:

The overall presentation hasn't changed at all, which is mostly a good thing. Loading a scenario still results in an ugly dump back to the desktop while a bunch of XML is processed, but otherwise you'll see the same intuitive menus as in the original game. There's a lot of new music specific to the new societies, all of which is solid, and a main menu theme that's a lot more satisfying than that cotton-candy David Byrne world beat tune in Civ IV.

New players lured to the series by this expansion would be forgiven for waiting until the inevitable Gold Edition drops, hopefully containing the original Civ IV and Warlords. But to the hordes who have already stayed up countless nights playing just one more turn, the cost of expansion is a pittance, and the sleepless nights merely part of the price of victory.

The report card listed the following positive points: Awesome replayability, Warlords enhance the military approach, Barbarians and Mongols invert the Civ formula, and Is any Wonder cooler than the Great Wall?". The only negative point listed is "Not much here for pacifists".