Prometheus1992
Warlord
Civ IV: The game that should have never been made.
I'll admit it. I was anticipating Civilization IV, and now, I honestly regret ever getting the game. This is one of the faultiest pieces of crap I have ever played. Here's a tip, if you were planning on getting it, use your money on something better like Battlefield 2 because once you get this game, you will hate yourself for life. Atari should have never sold the title to the know-nothing 2k Games, who can barely equal Firaxis' gaming capabilities to Civ 2. I have organized this post into my own little personal preview for you.
Barbarians: Ok, so I pop in the game and start up as the Germans and im thinking to myself "Wow, what a great game!" How could I ever be more wrong? I found my first city and shortly thereafter, lose 2 scouts because of barbarians, which was pretty bad. I founded 3 more cities and became the first to found Judiasm, then out of nowhere, a 5-unit barbarian horde comes out and ravages my capital and another city. So now im stuck with 2 cities. I mass produced Swordsman and Archers and launched an offensive against my capital that had been captured. I had roughly 3 swordsman and 2 archers attacking about 3 archers. This is when I discovered that the Barbarians can actually MASS PRODUCE archers and use some weird hack so that they can clobber my swordsman (level 6 str) with their pathetic 3 strength. Not to mention, these units were trained at a barracks and had the City Raider I promotion, which abusolutely nothing. I quit that game. So I enter the Rome scenario and 3 of my cities are captured by a barbarian horde of 7 swordsman and axeman that came from seemingly nowhere.
Artifical Intellegence: So they were claimed to be smart. Guess again. This AI was deemed to be "competitive" and when they outnumber my cities 2-to-1, they have no military whatsoever other than an occupational guard. This was on the difficulty Noble. Now tell me when a 13 year old child starts to own the crap out of a computer on an Easy-Moderate difficulty and ne might wonder "Were they designing this game for a 4-year-old?" Yes, they were, they were trying to pull more of the youth up to like the game by dumbing down the AI to such a poor extent. The AI's attitude was HORRIBLE. Im sure the Russians are only going to be annoyed when I burned 3/4 of their cities. When you do get a friend, they usually are on the Friendly mode. Ok, so I tried to sign a Defensive Pact. Nope, they were stupid enough to reject it when I was the leading world nation. The AI in this game is nearly as stupid as Civ 2.
Graphics: Realm of the dead. Zoomed out, the graphics are awesome...for the terrain. The unit graphics are worse then they were in Civilization III. This game was so badly plotted that they decided "Hey guys, lets NOT test it on Radeon graphics card and just ship it to make out fans happy!" Yeah, thanks the pixelated tiles, I enjoyed that. Civelopedia graphics are terrible. Gee, I didn't know that Modern Armor had TRIANGULAR turrets! The cities were designed beautifully along with the terrain, but the units is a no go, its just so bad its nearly indescribable by the English language. The ICBM, which looks little more than a steel spike with paper mache and a green tip on it. On a computer that had no video card, Civ 2 and Civ III worked, but not Civ IV, the terrain was ALL BLACK! AWESOME.
If you have already bought this game, you'd better start writing a suicide note.
Also, if you already bought this game then read this for some pros and cons about what you can do:
Pro: Makes a great gift to someone you hate =)
Con: It’s too cruel to make them feel that bad
Pro: Makes great firewood!
Con: Can’t burn well
Pro: A good dog toy
Con: Dog’s may choke on sharp pieces
On a scale of 1-10, im afraid this game will have to earn a 5.5. Its mediocre at best for a Civ game. I was very dissapointed by this game.
Thanks for your time and HEED MY WARNING!
I'll admit it. I was anticipating Civilization IV, and now, I honestly regret ever getting the game. This is one of the faultiest pieces of crap I have ever played. Here's a tip, if you were planning on getting it, use your money on something better like Battlefield 2 because once you get this game, you will hate yourself for life. Atari should have never sold the title to the know-nothing 2k Games, who can barely equal Firaxis' gaming capabilities to Civ 2. I have organized this post into my own little personal preview for you.
Barbarians: Ok, so I pop in the game and start up as the Germans and im thinking to myself "Wow, what a great game!" How could I ever be more wrong? I found my first city and shortly thereafter, lose 2 scouts because of barbarians, which was pretty bad. I founded 3 more cities and became the first to found Judiasm, then out of nowhere, a 5-unit barbarian horde comes out and ravages my capital and another city. So now im stuck with 2 cities. I mass produced Swordsman and Archers and launched an offensive against my capital that had been captured. I had roughly 3 swordsman and 2 archers attacking about 3 archers. This is when I discovered that the Barbarians can actually MASS PRODUCE archers and use some weird hack so that they can clobber my swordsman (level 6 str) with their pathetic 3 strength. Not to mention, these units were trained at a barracks and had the City Raider I promotion, which abusolutely nothing. I quit that game. So I enter the Rome scenario and 3 of my cities are captured by a barbarian horde of 7 swordsman and axeman that came from seemingly nowhere.
Artifical Intellegence: So they were claimed to be smart. Guess again. This AI was deemed to be "competitive" and when they outnumber my cities 2-to-1, they have no military whatsoever other than an occupational guard. This was on the difficulty Noble. Now tell me when a 13 year old child starts to own the crap out of a computer on an Easy-Moderate difficulty and ne might wonder "Were they designing this game for a 4-year-old?" Yes, they were, they were trying to pull more of the youth up to like the game by dumbing down the AI to such a poor extent. The AI's attitude was HORRIBLE. Im sure the Russians are only going to be annoyed when I burned 3/4 of their cities. When you do get a friend, they usually are on the Friendly mode. Ok, so I tried to sign a Defensive Pact. Nope, they were stupid enough to reject it when I was the leading world nation. The AI in this game is nearly as stupid as Civ 2.
Graphics: Realm of the dead. Zoomed out, the graphics are awesome...for the terrain. The unit graphics are worse then they were in Civilization III. This game was so badly plotted that they decided "Hey guys, lets NOT test it on Radeon graphics card and just ship it to make out fans happy!" Yeah, thanks the pixelated tiles, I enjoyed that. Civelopedia graphics are terrible. Gee, I didn't know that Modern Armor had TRIANGULAR turrets! The cities were designed beautifully along with the terrain, but the units is a no go, its just so bad its nearly indescribable by the English language. The ICBM, which looks little more than a steel spike with paper mache and a green tip on it. On a computer that had no video card, Civ 2 and Civ III worked, but not Civ IV, the terrain was ALL BLACK! AWESOME.
If you have already bought this game, you'd better start writing a suicide note.
Also, if you already bought this game then read this for some pros and cons about what you can do:
Pro: Makes a great gift to someone you hate =)
Con: It’s too cruel to make them feel that bad
Pro: Makes great firewood!
Con: Can’t burn well
Pro: A good dog toy
Con: Dog’s may choke on sharp pieces
On a scale of 1-10, im afraid this game will have to earn a 5.5. Its mediocre at best for a Civ game. I was very dissapointed by this game.
Thanks for your time and HEED MY WARNING!
