How good is the information we have about CIV IV?

[Urederra]

I just have read the new preview at gaminghorizon. http://previews.gaminghorizon.com/media2/1122843975.147.html and there is a sentence that bothers me a lot. Here it is.

"There are 18 civilizations to choose from, including the US, Mongolia, Persia, China, India, France, Germany, Japan, England, the Incas, the Aztecs and the Mali"

What puzzles me is the inclusion of the Incas in the list. As far as I know, it is the first time I have seen them in the list of 18 civ included in the game. Is it only a mistake made by the gaminghorizon staff or they are really on the game?

And futhermore, can we rely on the previews or not? Are they giving us accurate information or they are being fuzzy? Or maybe firaxis has changed its mind and they decided to include the Incas and exclude other civ. Which one?

Maybe the only thing we can rely on are the screenies. And even Firaxis can change many things we take them for granted because we saw them on the screenies. And I am thinking about adding or removing resources or improvements rather than changing the graphics.

 

[Civrules]

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/info/#Empires

Are you sure it is the first time you have seen the Incas mentioned? We've known all 18 Civs for a looong time now.

 

[Urederra]

Ops, sorry, civrules, Since there IS nothing else but the name 'the incas' in your document, I missed them.

But I think that my point is still valid. You more than anyone else have found information in the previews that at the end it proved to be false. I remember a couple of things. First is that in some sites, a couple, i think, state that the release date was September 30th (there is a thread about that). And I think that in a preview they mentioned the babilonians as a Civ IV civ (not 100 % sure about that)
or some of them also mentioned that there will be 19 civs in the game.

Personally, I trust the interviews with Soren and other Firaxis staff more than some written previews. I just wonder if there is some information that we think is true but it could be a mistake made by the previews writers. ( I don't blame them, since I suppose they write a lot of previews and they can missundestand or mistype information)

 

[warpstorm]

Another issue is that stuff changes. During the expansion development for Civ3, stuff changed up unitl the last possible minute before mastering the disks.

 

[mitsho]

Yes, and that's why I am somehow hoping they'll decide to squeeze Babylon, Sumeria or Assyria in nevertheless....

No, don't. Leave me the illusion please...

mitsho