Civilization IV Warlords (Mac)

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $24.77

Features:

• "Warlords – A new great person type called the Warlord will be an
• Vassal States – You no longer need to obliterate an enemy to defeat them. Conquer your enemies and subjugate them to your rule.
• Game Scenarios – The expansion will deliver eight new historical scenariosspanning Alexander's conquests through Genghis Khan's dominance of Asia, in addition to other scenarios that challenge the way that you currently play the game.
• "New Civilizations – Six new civilizations will be included, giving you even more options when planning your domination of the world.
• Units, Resources, & Improvements – Many new items not available in the core game will be introduced in the new scenarios.

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	ATI 100-435317 Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition for G5 256MB AGP Video Card

Customer Reviews:

Civ 4 compared to Civ 3 [Posted on 2007-09-15]
I have never been good at math, but I am good at following the numbers. Civ 1,2, and 3 were good in one regard, it was easy to follow and understand the relationship with production and income and stuff like this. However I find it hard to follow Civ 4. Maybe I haven't played it often enough to grasp it. Half of the time I bang out wonders for the sake of keeping them from the other players when I can. Most of the time I do not grasp what the wonder is doing exactly. For the most part I am reflecting on what it did in Civ two and three.

It is a good game overall. But the heavy changes to the game make it a little confusing at times. A few of the changes I do like, but over all I feel they changed too much from the others.

The things I do like are:
* When you put a unit on automatic it tends to accomplish what I wanted it to do a little better than older versions.
* I like that mountains block travel altogether so you can use it as an impassable wall when making a map.
* Combat is a little fairer; I remember times in Civ 3 when a barbarian will kill an army of 4 modern tanks with a club.

The things I do not like are:
* The city info screen does not provide as much useful info as it did in Civ 3.
* The change in the graphics are cool but a pain in the @$$ to get use to. It provides the game with a whole different feel.
* The game does quit out from time to time. I'm a Mac Tech on a new Intel 24" iMac and I haven't figured out why. (Note: in a 8 hour session I would expect it to unexpectedly quit at least one time but the auto save prevents me from louse the game.)
* After a wile of running I need to quit the game and reload because it slows down. After I reload the game it runs a lot smoother.

Love this game [Posted on 2007-11-29]
An improvement over the original.. Can't play online with the game... but i don't care..

Terrible, until Aspry decides to support this game... [Posted on 2008-01-29]
Im going to start by saying that the Mac port compared to the windows version is ok at best. What I am truly frustrated by is the lack of support Aspyr is placing in its software. I bought this game with the intention of playing multiplayer with my friends, all of which own PC's and were able to buy the gold edition for half what I payed. Regardless, I put up the absorbent amount of money for this three year old game and attempted to play multiplayer with my friends. To my dismay I discovered that Mac users were not allowed to play multiplayer with PC users because Aspyr has not released a patch compatible with the windows patch 2.13. To make matters worse I also discovered that gamespy is no longer supporting the internet play of the Mac version. So even when the patch is finally released I will only be able to play direct IP connect. After learning this crucial information I called Aspyr support to find out if they plan on releasing a patch soon so I could make my $80 investment worth while. But to no avail, the tech support told me that the incompetent Aspyr "is working on it" but have no definite date for release. The final nail of the metaphoric coffin was the fact that Mac users could also not get the latest Expansion beyond the sword. What makes it even more offensive is the fact that Aspyr has no plans of releasing this half year old expansion pack in the future. Please heed my advise and do not buy this game until Aspyr gets their act together!!!

Great game but terrible programming [Posted on 2008-02-18]
Civ IV is a a lot of fun. Similar to old PC games like Master of Magic.
Unfortunately, the Mac version is moderately buggy. Let me count the ways:

1) Audio glitches. Occasionally an old sound will seemingly 'stay in the buffer' as an annoying buzz for several minutes.

2) Video. After playing for a few hours some of the terrain improvements turn completely black. Restarting the game works for this one.

3) Video. After a few hours it gets slow and the video glitches. The menus become partially unreadable. Restarting also works here and there is no noticeable corruption of the autosave files.

4) Complete Crash. Several times I have had my whole machine lock up when playing in full screen mode. Its interesting in that its not a complete freeze, but instead the mouse slows down to 1/100 of its normal speed. However, I am unable to exit the game at this point and am forced to Hold Down the Power Button !!! to hardware restart. This is atrocious and the only program I know of that actually crashes the OS.

I have a 2.4 GHz iMac Intel Duo with 2 GB of RAM and running Tiger.

Great [Posted on 2008-02-19]
My sons have spent hours creating their civilizations. This game seems to be very entertaining.

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