Sid Meier's Civilization IV - Introduction - Game Guide and walkthrough

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The following guide is not prepared for veteran players looking for highly advanced strategies, enabling them to perform things like winning in 100 turns. However, if you are a novice looking for rather basic information and guidelines, this text is just for you.

I hope of course that more advanced players find some interesting pieces of advice here, but my main objective was to help a beginner who has never played Civilization before.

I’ve assumed that reader knows the game’s manual and knows how to use the Civilopedia so I’ve avoided copying information from both sources except when it was absolutely necessary.

Civilization IV is, as every game from the series, very complex and open ended. Your gaming experience is different every time you start a new game. That’s why it’s impossible to give any kind of strictly defined winning strategy – what may be a good choice in one game may lead to your quick downfall in any other one.

It is very important to learn how to plan every decision. “Focus” is the key word. Not only have you to know how to do something, but also why.

There are many tools in game which give you lot of important information about your empire and your competitors. The most useful one is the point ranking which makes it possible to compare your civilization to other nations.

Other tools worth remembering are your advisors (f1-f7) and statistics screen (f10) – use them often.

Last technical information: all numbers in this guide are based on a standard settings game (world size: standard, normal speed).

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info about game: Sid Meier's Civilization IV

title: Sid Meier's Civilization IV | genre: Strategy
developer: Firaxis | publisher: 2K Games
platform: PC CD/DVD | rated: 12+

Civilization IV has already been heralded as one of the top ten games of 2005, and a must-have for gamers around the globe!

With over 6 million units sold and unprecedented critical acclaim from fans and press around the world, Sid Meier's Civilization is recognized as one of the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Now, Sid Meier and Firaxis Games will take this incredibly fun and addictive game to new heights by adding new ways to play and win, new tools to manage and expand your civilization, all-new easy to use mod capabilities and intense multiplayer modes and options. Civilization IV will come to life like never before in a beautifully detailed, living 3D world that will elevate the gameplay experience to a whole new level. Civilization IV has already been heralded as one of the top ten games of 2005, and a must-have for gamers around the globe!
- Faster-Paced Fun - Gameplay has been streamlined for a tighter, faster, and more compelling experience.
- 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!(info about game from official page)

PC System Specifications:

Pentium 4 1.4GHz or Athlon 1400+ processor
256MB RAM
8x CD-ROM drive
1.1GB of uncompressed free hard disk space
32MB graphics card
16-bit sound card

Fansite Kit Screenshots

Screenshots

Wallpapers

Movies

Civilization IV Official Trailer - 640x360 WMV

Civilization IV Official Trailer - 640x360 QuickTime

Downloads

Civilization IV Demo - 314.3MB (FilePlanet)

Civilization IV Fansite Kit - 31.5MB

Civilization IV Patch 1.52 - 45.5MB

Links

Sid Meier's Civilization IV - Official Website

Firaxis Games - Developer's Website

2K Games - Publisher's Website

Apolyton Civilization Site - Fansite

Civilization Fanatics Center - Fansite

comments and responses

	Hi, If this game is for the PC can someone please email me the key bindings for this game to lewis.kenneth@tx.rr.com so that I can add a template for this game to my software called Keystroke! a voice recognition software for gamers by Killers Software at www.killerssoftware.com Thank You	killers 23/01/2009 13:03
	Great game For great games http://eagamespot.blogspot.com	fifagiggs 09/07/2008 15:07
	Ok... Tihs Ioimtrfoan has hlped a lttile, but I arelday konw msot of tihs suftf aynawy... and who creas aobut smoe dman iprnppeor egnlsih... if you udnrsantd waht is bineg siad waht deos it mteatr?	WOW I CANT BELIEVE... 23/05/2008 03:50
	press "alt & tab"	bugleboy 17/04/2007 08:50
	how do u minimize the game on ur desktop and not close the game??	oops 11/04/2007 20:06
	its coo	muss 19/03/2007 00:34
	Thanks for the great guide. Though written in some broken English, it is still easily unserstandable. For a guide as good as this one, the content is all that counts for me. Thank you again for your help, especially since it's FREE!	Thanks! 06/01/2007 02:15
	This guide helped soooo much. I have never put in the time to figure out the economics and city management of these games. Thanks for doing it for me!	SerbNoble 11/03/2006 21:32
	some guides are in better English some are only in some kind of english :) but we are no native speakers :) Take it as it comes, for free and have good fun playing :)	no problem 05/03/2006 00:19
	Thanks for the nice giude. I helped me understand the game and the basic. Nice work! By the way who cares for the damn proper english. ;)	Math 04/03/2006 04:16
	Thanks for the great guide! There is a ton of solid and useful information here, nicely organized. I especially appreciate the detailed information and advice on the civics.	Laura 22/02/2006 23:52
	I thought this was about Civilization IV, not an English lesson.	my mistake 22/02/2006 20:15
	I must agree with civfan. I'm not trying to be rude, but the person who wrote this material needs to learn how to write. Sounds pretty uneducated or inexperienced in conveying his ideas by a proper use of grammar. Sentences run into each other in almost every paragraph. Reading stuff like this makes me mad. Also makes me want to eat a hot dog REAL BAD. >: )	cruel but true 19/02/2006 06:56
	Helpful hints but you guys need to fire whoever proofreads your stuff. It looks like a highschool dropout typed this stuff up. I thought this was supposed to be English. :)	Civfan 19/01/2006 02:12

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