Sid Meier's Civilization Chronicles Announced

[Thunderfall]

[IMG="right"]http://www.civfanatics.com/images/civ4/civchronbox200.jpg[/IMG]2K Games and Firaxis Games yesterday announced Sid Meier's Civilization Chronicles, a huge compilation that includes all four games and five of six expansion packs in the Civilization series:

• Civilization I
• Civilization II, Civ II: Fantastic Worlds, Civ II: Conflicts in Civilization, Civ II: Test of Time
• Civilization III, Civ III: Play the World, Civ III: Conquests
• Civilization IV
• Civilization: The Card Game, an original tabletop card game designed by Soren Johnson, featuring more than 250 custom cards and rules based on Civilization IV.
• The Chronicles of Civilization: A 96-page book containing the history of Civilization, as told through interviews with past Civilization designers, an interview with Sid Meier and lead designer Soren Johnson, an article by journalist and author Steven L. Kent on the significance of the series in the computer gaming industry, and other original literature.
• Video DVD: Includes a presentation by lead designer Soren Johnson and artist Dorian Newcomb about the creation of Civilization IV, complemented by gameplay footage of every iteration of the game, game trailers from the Civilization series and more.
• Printed tech tree posters from each game, wallpaper images, podcast MP3s, and more.

The only item not included in the box set is the Civ4 Warlords expansion pack. The compilation will be released for the PC this October and the suggested retail price is $69.99.

EDIT (9/30/06): Civilization Chronicles is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

 

[GarretSidzaka]

AARRGGGHHH!!! I need this but im broke

 

[GenMarshall]

I knew it would cost a pretty penny. As for the older versions of Civ (Civ2 & Civ1), did they made sure to have it workable in Windows XP and future OSes?

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I knew it would cost a pretty penny. As for the older versions of Civ (Civ2 & Civ1), did they made sure to have it workable in Windows XP and future OSes?

$69:99 isn't so bad when you consider it comes with Civ4 and some fairly hard to find games (outside of the internet).

Though the making it workable in XP would also affect my buying this - didn't the Total War series get rerealesed recently to make sure it was all fully workable?

 

[Pvblivs]

Uh no! Just another Civ thing that is a must have. But I've bought all this stuff one by one before.

What should I do? Help!

 

[GarretSidzaka]

Uh no! Just another Civ thing that is a must have. But I've bought all this stuff one by one before.

What should I do? Help!

sell plasma, sell labor, sell kidneys, sell hair, sell sex, sell soul

 

[Tycoon101]

That's quite a good deal to tell the truth.

40$ For Civ4, 20$ For the Civ3 stuff, and 10$ for the other stuff. That's crazy low.

Too bad I have all 4 games, so I don't need this.

 

[GenMarshall]

That's quite a good deal to tell the truth.

40$ For Civ4, 20$ For the Civ3 stuff, and 10$ for the other stuff. That's crazy low.

Too bad I have all 4 games, so I don't need this.

Perhaps this package is more for the people who have not played the Civ Series.

 

[Truronian]

If only it had SMAX aswell...

 

[Red Door]

For the two games that I don't have (Civ 2 and Civ 1), Chronicles isn't worth the money.

 

[thenooblet22]

You all are forgeting that is also comes with a book, a dvd, and a card game. Sounds like a great deal to me.

 

[Nobody]

If i hadnt already bought civ3 and civ4 i might consider it, but thats probabaly looking at $150 in New Zealand maybe a little much.

 

[Sid]

I want it too -- will wait for the AUD price and start saving. Yeah, it would have been great to get SMAC/X included, and I bet that Brian Reynolds doesn't feature in the 'making of' DVD!

 

[Mama Lazarou]

Seems a bit odd not including Warlords don't you think?

 

[lost_civantares]

They don't want to slow down the sales of Warlords, though I would be hesitant about buying this since there's going to be at least one more expansion pack for civ4.

 

[Ranbir]

No Warlords?

Er..right...

I'm gonna wait for the second Chronicles pack.

 

[Slax]

I don't have civ IV yet, and would buy a civ IV compilation or this product. As always, wait for a review of the Chronicles.

 

[Master_Debater]

Man, I posted this first in the civ4 forum, nuts.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I already have III and IV, so there is no way I would pay $70 for Civ I and Civ II, a card game and some posters.

 

[Aneurism]

How about including:
CivNet (in addition to, or instead of Civ 1), Call To Power I & II, Alpha Centauri, Warlords

and why not Master of Orion I and II? (Microprose)

I used to play Civ2 and if I won the Space Race I'd start up a game of MOO2 and name my Galactic empire after my Civ2 empire