Highly Compressed Civilization IV Game ~ GamesNHacks

Hammad Ansari on Friday, October 22, 2010

Civilization IV | PC Game | Genre: Strategy | {230MB}

The premise of Civilization IV, as well as the previous Civilization titles, is that you start from scratch and create an entire civilization. You begin the game with a single unit called settlers, and they can be used to establish a city. Once this city is established, you can train workers to go around build roads, farms, and more. Eventually, you’ll also need to build up a military to defend your city. Once that city grows big enough, you can create more settlers to build more cities. In the meantime, you can research simple things like ‘the wheel’ or ‘iron working’ and eventually work your way up to nuclear weapons and space exploration.

This game is presented using an overhead map of the world, and you can zoom in and out for detail. To view your cities, just double click on them. The whole game can be controlled by the mouse, and it is all turn-based, so you have plenty of time to calculate your moves. As the game goes on and your world gets bigger, each turn will take longer and longer. If you make it all the way into modern times, one turn could take a half hour or more, depending on how big the world is and how many other active civilizations are still competing for dominance.There is so much you can do in Civilization IV that it would be impossible to even briefly touch on all the possibilities. That is what makes this game so great in that you can play it over and over again, and never play the same kind of game twice. For me, being able to replay a game is a big deciding factor in how long I keep it installed on my hard drive, and this is one that will keep you occupied for a long time. Be careful, though, this game can been quite addictive once you get into it.

Even single-player and multiplayer options have been improved in Civ IV. The single-player game offers much-improved artificial intelligence that seems to cheat much less than in previous games, or not at all. In the single-player game, rival nations won't mysteriously explore the entire world in two turns, nor will they use those two turns to magically build a network of five cities where there were none before. Computer-controlled nations will also make much more reasonable bids at the table, but they can't be easily bribed with small handfuls of cash, either. The single-player difficulty seems to scale extremely well by offering a very gentle introduction for beginners at the lowest levels and a suitably tough challenge for experts at the highest levels.

Minimum System Requirements

OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Processor: Pentium 4 @ 1.2 GHz or Equivalent
Memory: 512 Mb
Hard Drive: 900 Mb free
Video Memory: 64 Mb
Video Card: with Shader 1.1 Support
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 9.0c
Keyboard
Mouse
DVD Rom Drive

Recommended System Requirements

OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Processor: Pentium 4 @ 1.8 GHz or Equivalent
Memory: 1 Gb
Hard Drive: 900 Mb free
Video Memory: 128 Mb
Video Card: with Pixel & Vertex Shader