Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword is a simulator game developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2007. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Gamebryo.

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate), educational, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword is the 20th of 41 entries we hold in the Sid Meier series. The next entry was Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition in 2007. Its critic score of 83 is almost exactly the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Sid Meier's Civilization IV at 95.

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Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 19 points above the year average.

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword launched on 18 July 2007, within three weeks of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, The World Ends with You, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd and FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition, The World Ends with You, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd, FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage.

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