WP reports:
''A lot of people mistake Civilization IV: Colonization for a Civ IV expansion pack. What else could it be when it has another game's name in its title, right? The reality of the situation, though, is that Colonization is a completely freestanding title that uses very little from Civ IV beyond some basic gameplay concepts and the sharp-looking 3-D engine. It's entirely possible to buy and play it separately from Civ IV, although this isn't a course of action I recommend. Unless you're very familiar with the basic strategy of Civ IV or at least with the original PC game, you may find yourself overwhelmed by the difficulty and sheer complexity inherent in Colonization.
As hinted above, Civilization IV: Colonization is a remake of the 1994 PC game that ran on the Civilization engine, but was otherwise a totally separate experience. Like the original, Colonization challenges players to take control of one of four colonial powers (England, France, the Netherlands and Spain) and take a settlement through the fairly narrow and complex series of events required to declare absolute victory. You must first found a thriving colony and then use liberty-inspiring tactics to incite your colonists to want to rebel from the mother country. Once you declare rebellion, you must weather an invasion by your mother country and successfully kill all of its ground troops. Only then can you declare independence and say you've won the game.
Colonization's rigid and complicated victory conditions inspire you to plan out your colony's life cycle far in advance, selecting where to build with an eye toward resources you may not need for quite some time into the future. Founding your colony's first city on poor terrain can effectively end a game in the first 10 turns by making it impossible to build up the necessary resources to both generate rebel sentiment and build up a continental army. Taking too long to explore a large map for an advantageous place to build a city can also doom you by making sure you don't have enough turns left to suitably build up your civilization and an army to defend it.''
2K will implement online service changes for several legacy titles, including releases for Windows PC, as a result of GameSpy Technology terminating its online service offerings for video games.
Beginning May 31, 2014, select legacy titles from the Borderlands® and Civilization® catalogs will temporarily go offline while service is transitioned to Steamworks.
GamerDeals.net:
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From now until Sunday, get 75% off Civilization IV and Civilization V games and expansion packs. That means Civ IV is $4.99, Civ IV Complete Edition (both Steam and no-DRM versions) and Civ V for $7.49, Civ V Complete Edition for $12.49, and DLC as low as $0.75."
GameFront, "In an age when even old-school FPS gurus like iD’s John Carmack are defecting to consoles, you can still be sure of one thing: strategy gaming has ever been and will always be the province of PC’s. Whether it’s due to the more cerebral, measured gameplay, or — more likely — the crucial importance of mouse controls, the jump to other platforms is rarely successful. Despite their large market share and stable, unchanging hardware, consoles struggle to sustain a pure strategy game."
I pretty much clicked on this to ensure that Homeworld was included and sure enough it is. I approve.
I never played Homeworld but I'm gonna check it out.....maybe Good ol Games has it for dirt cheap!
Damn it I want to play Homeworld. Why hasn't Relic got it up on a digital distribution service like Steam?!
