GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. As the next chapter in the definitive PC strategy game franchise, Civilization IV is naturally one of the high-profile games of 2005. All that ...

The best thing about Sid Meier's Civilization IV is also the worst: It will suck any armchair strategists in. Perhaps for days. The goal of creating a nation that withstands the ebbs and flows of ...

Civilization is arguably the most iconic strategy game franchise ever, but some entries are far better than others.

Civilization IV has done away with separate attack and defend values for each unit in favor of a single power rating. While that simplifies the combat system a bit, ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While there have been many previews of Civilization IV, there's hardly been any coverage of the game's middle to late stages. That's due to the ...

Civilization IV, of course, came in second with 21.6% of the vote. No other game in the series came close, which I first assumed was because most people in the survey started with Civ IV or Civ V.

The release of Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword is only a few days away now and we've been doing our best to make sure that you're properly prepared. To that end we've talked about the core game ...

Take-Two Interactive has announced a stand-alone expansion for Civilization 4 entitled Civilization 4: Colonization, based on Civ creator Sid Meier’s 1994 title Sid Meier’s Colonization. This ...

Civilization 4 was released in 2005, and while there were definitely already fans of video game music, I would not say that it had the same broad cultural reach that it does now.

The Civ IV engine is over a decade old at this point, but Ashes of Erebus squeezes everything it can from it. Its development team is currently led by CivFanatics user black_imperator, ...

In Civilization IV the health system gave an overview of a city health. This was based on a range of factors such as pollution and access to clean water.

I'm really excited to see Firaxis include such a feature. They didn't have to give users the ability to import old maps and convert them to Civ 5 automatically — units, cities, resources, and ...