Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Complete Edition
Sid Meier’s Civilization is widely recognized as one the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Heralded as one of the top ten games of 2005, Civilization IV is a must-have for gamers around the globe. Sid…
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Complete Edition is a simulator developed by Firaxis Games, released 12 May 2009 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Complete Edition is
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Complete Edition is a simulator game developed by Firaxis Games and released in 2009. It was published by 2K Games. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sid Meier’s Civilization is widely recognized as one the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Heralded as one of the top ten games of 2005, Civilization IV is a must-have for gamers around the globe. Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: The Complete Edition includes Civilization IV, plus all three expansions: Warlords, Beyond the Sword and Colonization.
How it plays
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.
Where it sits in the Sid Meier series
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Complete Edition is the 24th of 41 entries we hold in the Sid Meier series. It arrived 10 months after Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution. The next entry was Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution in 2009.
What it launched against
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Complete Edition launched on 12 May 2009, within three weeks of Minecraft, Infamous, The Sims 3 and Plants vs. Zombies.
Released around the same time: Minecraft, Infamous, The Sims 3, Plants vs. Zombies.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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