Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization Review

[Theiphoneskater]

steve butts hahaha i now im later but hahahah

[kris10ish]

USA went to independance becuse they were dicks no offence but killing your king that founded your country isnt that great lol

[Mareczekw30]

@kris10ish "killing king"? Who killed king? I'm sorry, but I think you mistaken.

[kris10ish]

@Mareczekw30 well usa had to kill some english person that was power fulll to get tehre independance becuse it was a war

[dixievfd55]

@kris10ish Ummm...King George never actually visited the colonies. Kinda hard to kill someone who doesn't give you the opportunity. Besides we probably would have ransomed him for money which was pretty common back then.

[kris10ish]

@dixievfd55 Pretty ironic tho YOU shouved us out and then asked for our help in wars WE are now allies

[999Claymore]

@kris10ish Well we help you a lot in WW2 so I think we're even.

[BrennanGoulet]

@kris10ish America never killed the king of England. I admit the Americans had much help revolting against Brittan. But the Americans had a dominating victory against the English in 1912 with no help, "technically a draw but last battle was for America and it was a very young country" look of the battle of new orleans.

[BrennanGoulet]

@BrennanGoulet woops 1812*

[kris10ish]

@BrennanGoulet You barley won. It wasn't much of a victory since after that war you became poor and lost lots of men.

[airdelta9]

why does ign never have any emotion in their voice?

[airdelta9]

Im very bad at this game but good thing they have world builder!

[TheWoodyTiger]

Where are lumberjacks and carpenters?

[B3nkr3w]

This game is hard but satisfying.

[BeanTheForce]

I played the original over and over and over again XD. This new game is an incredible remake!

[lisaraybenlisa]

Is there a nuke in this game?

[BVargas78]

Good game, Civ IV is better but this is worth getting. There is more micro management but it's done in a good way.

[TheGarryModder]

steve BUTTS FTW :D IMA CHILD :D

[RadioHyperactive]

trade was automated before, but it wouldnt change your trade routes/quantities based on stock price.

[SwooshParker]

Why can't you play as Portugal? It's called Colonization, isn't it? Stupid.

[Extraneus3771]

which one is better??

Civilization IV or Civ IV: Colonization???

[ColonelVolkov]

it's like the difference between sex with your mom and your sister - it's a matter of preference

[Southparkpwns48]

@Extraneus3771 Civ 4 all the way.

[Lusitanus]

History something that Sid Meiers said that wanted to include in the game, but until now i didnt see it, neither with the new Civ V....oh by the way I never bought a Sid Meiers game, they are so easy to download and playing online, lololoI dont buy games that mislead History, I like playing but no more than that, so i will not spent money on it, and Civ V will be the next download I will take from Sid Meiers without buying, good isnt it? someday i hope to spend some money on a real history game

[guardcorp]

@Lusitanus

Its just a videogame, get over your self.

[Lusitanus]

@guardcorp I know but you would see the british or and americans talking like me if that was about them....

cheers

[hesitation24]

@Lusitanus you're one disgusting leecher. You know what happens when you pirate games, leecher? You discourage the developers from making other great games, or maintain the game with patch updates. Because of faggots like you, us real and legit gamers have to suffice with the dev team's budget cuts. FAGGOT.

[Lusitanus]

@hesitation24 at least they can stop making stupid video games that distorce History and sell millions

[hesitation24]

@Lusitanus if it's stupid then dont' DOWNLOAD. Fucking twat. Real pirates at least have the decency to give credit where it's due, and love the game they pirate.

[Lusitanus]

@hesitation24 of course i download because are the kind of games with real nations, but with non-real History.

Didnt you know about a new kind of pirates?

[hesitation24]

@Lusitanus I could have never imagined a gamer could stoop so low. Also, You must be retarded to think this is a game "with real nations, but with non-real history." This is a GAME, it would not be a game if it followed real history. How much more stupid can you be? You might as well go watch a fucking documentary on global history you stupid noob

[Lusitanus]

@hesitation24 retarted is you who make confusion between the Real History and the History the game shows and what the player does with that History..

If for you is just a game then why using existed nations? it should had been creative nations.

idiot

[Lusitanus]

well about the fact being low I think the producers of the game goes lower than me when they "create" this kind of "lack-of-knownledge" about a entertainment game based on Historical facts,it doesnt correspond a game based with those facts.

[hesitation24]

@Lusitanus again, are you stupid? or just trolling? There's an entire encyclopedia in the game called the CIVILOPEDIA, and in there you can read all the factual history you fucking want. You think it'd be fun if you choose to be an American leader and the only way to win is if you do exactly what that leader did in real life? The game is entertaining majorly because players have the freedom to create their own history with their own civ and leader, DIPSHIT. End of discussion, now GTFO pirate

[Lusitanus]

first of all let me explain AGAIN and SLOWLY as I were explaining to a donkey, I never said that you choose to be an American leader and the only way to win is if you do exactly what that leader did in real life, what I said is the way they SHOW how it happened with certain videos and hiding the true of it, of course you will not know that because your country is there no matter what did, have always a big presence in games, so big that sometimes gets boring to see so many usa propagandas on it

[hesitation24]

@Lusitanus such as? give me ONE example.

[churoasasin]

IGN video "reviews" suck these are "reviews" not game quickies

BTW, the game is decent

[ehteht43]

This game desoeraty needs a tutorial mode, and it's just not enjoyable to me, so I'll stick to Beyond the Sword. I really don'y enjoy overbord realistic features, like how only 4 countries colonized, so you can only pick from 4, I mean come on, the last game had 34 civs. It doesn't need to be so harshly strict. Some people may enjoy it, but I don't.

[ozain24]

@ehteht43 Agreed, the "tutorial" which they put in (the little hints every now and then) hardly did anything for me, I had to do most of the working out for myself. Their website even dares to call it an indepth tutorial!! Pff, it did little more than badly explain the most very basic features.

[BUFFTHEDOCTOR]

as they say

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupry

[Civfan26]

@BUFFTHEDOCTOR you got that from Civ 4's quotes?

[BUFFTHEDOCTOR]

ya lol :D

[BUFFTHEDOCTOR]

own, seeing that they owned most of the coastline that shiped the afrikan slaves, and the spanis with almost all of south america and north america.

the thing is if one was to play the portuguese it would either defy the history or one would hav a small part of brazil, there r no slaves in the game(none that i can recall just indentured servants, and petty criminals)

corn can be discovered and used by any1 and potatoes arent even mentioned, theres already too much in it.

[lavosgundam]

For the love of all that is good in the world, do not educate anyone.

[BUFFTHEDOCTOR]

its funny how some1 is discrediting the fact that their r no portuguese in the game and all of a sudden their talking about the usa, europe, and communism.

first of all portugal and spain had disputes on who owns what territories during those colonial times, then not wanting to fight eachother a line was drawn(or something like that)across the map and one side the spanish can own and the other the portuguese which coincidently the line went through part of brazil which the portuguese only

[chukurrinow]

"I'd rather be a slave of a commnuist system"?? That is the thing: in USA every country free of corporate power is labeled in that way - "Communist".

[lavosgundam]

Everyone is under the influence of some kind of power, the trick to it is knowing which power you favor the most.

[GoodAvatar]

There are a few INCREDIBLY frustrating glitches in the game that haven't been smoothed out.

In the North American scenario, you appear at the same spot just above South America every time. Your soldiers, even normal colonists, cannot become veteran soldiers like in the original game. Indians get pissed WAY quicker in this one and they can totally wreck your colonies in a heartbeat if they get the whim, which they could almost never do in the original.

[torkoal531]

you know what I find funny? That in this game, you HAVE to win through revolting against your mother country, and winning a war of indepedence. THAT'S extremely biased...

[zoddie]

get over yourself.

america won...the end faggot.

[torkoal531]

woah, that came from nowhere... Did I ever say America didn't win? Did I ever even say America was fighting something? no, no I did not. All I'm saying is that there should be maybe one or two more options to win with, faggot

[chukurrinow]

That's because most of you take history lessons from videogames and hollywood movies that you are so ignorant. And that's why I am against this game - because it shows a wrong version of the facts in a U:S: conditioned perspective. You are the Empire now... in case you don't know... U.S. represents the evil in world nowadays.

[zerbx101]

This game confused the hell out of me! How do u make like soiders or warriors???? plz help!!!

[AstroFishLol]

I just bought this game. I so can't wait to play it :DDDD

[hyperdude144]

for all the people who start arguments about whose country is the best... This is a GAME lol...

[Goober715]

I have a 0/8 win ratio please help me!!!

[chukurrinow]

Portugal has the same level of importance toi the AMERICAN CONTINENT history than Spain and Englan. The largest country of south america is Brazil, an ex-portuguese colony. The third most-spoken language in america (the continet, by the way) is portuguese, following english and spannish.

[JinRenegade]

Beyond the Sword. Many more things to do.

[ehteht43]

Thank you

[chukurrinow]

Why there isn't a PORTUGUESE faction in this game?? Is Sid Meier ignorant or what? Didn't he knew that Portuguese discovered Brazil and were the first to bring Corn and Potatoes to Europe? Didin't he knew the portuguese were the first to bring africans to america? I think this game only shows the ignorance that PROSPERS in the U.S.A.

[germanman95]

calm down

[Cashis20]

Your making it seem worse than it actually is.

The game didint include many countries...so why are you just complaining about portugal

If you want Portugal that badly then just download some mods.

[chukurrinow]

"the game didn't include many countries", ok, maybe Portugal it's more important to the exploration of the New World than France or Netherlands... USA citizens think that America is their country, but America is a continent!! Why the hell do you call to your country AMERICA??? Imperialists.

[Cashis20]

Yes america is a continent.... Everyone here in the U.S refers to the country as the U.S

The ones that use the name america is mostly Europeans.

The full name is United States of AMERICA

Meaning its in America.. and they would yous the name for short

I dont know why you are pinning this on the U.S though. Its just a game

...NOT A HISTORY BOOK.

[Tmancubs33]

wow u are a fricken nazi

[redskinsk47]

ahahahah not a country? your just like every other america hater. you cant stand how powerful we are so you try to strip us of everything you can. but this is by far the dumbest...not a country...ahahaahahahahahahaha­hahaha

[chukurrinow]

If you don't understand what is told, please, for the sake of yourself, don't say foolish things. I didn't said "not a country", I just said that AMERICA is the continent, that your imperialistic behaviour turned in just a particular country - U.S.A. It's sad... but along the history of the world, I still have TIME to know your history too... perhaps better than 99% of your population, that don't even know where Europe is. You are rednecks... save for New York, all the rest is shit.

[redskinsk47]

you say were ignorant but then you go and belive what your media tells you. you really think that 99% of our country doesnt no where europe is? yet we have the best universitys,docters and scientists? your the ignorant one.

[chukurrinow]

I'm sorry, maybe I over-reacted... You have wonderfull things... I've seen Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Addendum, I've, seen the last Phoenix missions on mars... I've listened the Obama speach, I've listened the music, and I, as you, know what you CAN DO.

[chukurrinow]

That's why I get PISSED whenever the U.S.A. does SHITTY THINGS (just like these game) because you HAVE THE POWER TO DO NICE THINGS, but you tend to do 99% of SHIT and 1% of HEAVEN (even though that 1% corresponds to 99% of the world... take the instance of the Kioto protocol, the war on Irak, the global domination of corporations...) You have to much responsibility and YOU CAN'T CRAP OUTSIDE OF YOUR ZONE. With great power comes....

[Koolkidscomedy]

What about Oregon? I mean the populated areas, not the rural. You ever been there? Most of us are far from rednecks.

[chukurrinow]

Nice. It's also interesting the comparison between the area of the USA and the area of Europe, you see, you are much bigger... do you which to compare any state in the USA with, perhaps... Bulgary? Ukraine? hmm... Finland?, whatever country you see in Europe? The thing is that you are not a country, you are a Union of countries, or states if you prefer, designed with rulers... you ahve no history my friend.

[sokerkritik]

we got plenty of history hmm how bout saving Europe's ass in World War II

[chukurrinow]

"Saving Europe's ass" or "Making the business of the century"?? Before that you where selling weapons to the nazis.

[brayden99Roblox]

do you under stand what the word "united" means? dont be jealous of america. you would be a nazi right now if it wernt for us.

[chukurrinow]

"I would be a nazy right now"... you only say that because the U.S. is a "Jew-Haven", always suporting the killing of inocents in the middle-east... FOR OIL, FOR PROFIT. You are the nazis. Ku Klux Klan... whatever.

[brayden99Roblox]

FAIL lol

[RadioHyperactive]

Oil!? OIL!? we didnt even take any oil except perhaps what convicted terrorists owned.

[zoddie]

whatever to you too dumbass, you dont even know what you are talking about.

killing innocents in the middle east, have you ever taken a history class in your entire pathetic life? The middle east has plenty of blood in their hands more so then anyone else.

nevermind..someone like you is an utter waste of time.

[YoungFlame1377]

funny how your on a american website talking that bull shit. we have alot of history. thats all im gonna say.

[kris10ish]

@YoungFlame1377 american history is BRITISH history we britans made your history most of it if it werent for Uk usa or america would not be here today or atlleast it wouldnt be wat it is

[YoungFlame1377]

but then again that is true. all the states over here dont have the same laws. and when you think about it we are technically a capitalistic soviet Union.

[chukurrinow]

And don't be so sad about the "redneck insult", I was only trying to piss all of you and it was so easy...

[Koolkidscomedy]

People get riled up on the internet really easily. It's no big deal really. Like you said, it's easy to piss people off.

[chukurrinow]

:) that's not important what we say, but it's important to have arguments once in a while, it energizes the brain. This started because, in my opinion, a game about "colonization" without the portuguese, that iniciated the age of discoveries, is a little bit strange... I only wanted to say that this game had an "USA view of the disoveries/colonization", not a global view, like other games such as Age of Empires... Indeed, it's no big deal, but the game should have that, it's a big BIG fault.

[Koolkidscomedy]

Yeah, I totally agree that Portugal should have been included, and I agree that an argument every once in while is important. Plus if the game was made for the United States of America to play (Mostly) it probably would be made with a USA spin on it. =)

[chukurrinow]

When I was a kid I used to play Colonization, and in the start menu you only had "Spanish", "english", "French" and "Dutch"... later I was told that Sid Meyer didn't put Portugal on it "because of the space": a square with four squares (four factions) a fifth one "would damage the screen"... :P

[YoungFlame1377]

lol were rednecks. lol you wanna see rednecks? go to compton and call them rednecks. lol they'll give you a redneck, with a bullet.

[chukurrinow]

Yes, you've made a point, and I agree with you. It's that... I dopn't know, but to us, in europe, seems like the U.S. manipulates history always by their point of view. Your country is too much important to the world, you CANNOT have PARTIAL VIEWS of History, because you put in danger all the history of the world... THE U.S. HAVE TO BE MORE RESPONSIBLE, for the sake of all.

[redskinsk47]

look you and i both no you didnt play as big of a role as england or spain. so why would the devolopers spend alot more moeny on portugal, when they could be spending it somewhere else. oh and you can call us ignorant all you want but it doesnt change the fact that we are the richest and most powerful country in the world.

[chukurrinow]

Profit. I would prefer that those "developers" made some effort on other things than their particular profit... are they artists or just burgois? Maybe that's why you are the richest country in the world... and maybe if, for you, the goal wasn't PROFIT, there would be PEACE in the world, along with INTELIGENCE and well-being for ALL. You are the richest, the dumbest and, for the SAKE OF US ALL (the world is screwed) the most powerfull. Open your eyes. Hope for Obama...

[YoungFlame1377]

and btw dumbass that was the spanish the spanish took over the incas and aztecs and used them as slaves, after they died off they went to africa and took them as slaves. how bout you go to school jackass.

[chukurrinow]

You should be the one to go to school: PORTUGUESE, and not spanish, took africans to america (the continent, by the way...); all the african coast had portuguese colonies/forts. That was wrong... that's why the world doesn't need that to happen again: today WE ARE ALL SLAVES OF YOUR CAPITALIST SYSTEM.

[issareign]

its not real capitalism though, it facism. gee i wonder why the congress has two giant fasci symbles on both sides of the podeom.

[zoddie]

seems you rather be a slave to a communist system instead?

[chukurrinow]

You should be the one to return to school: the spanish didn't take africans to america, portuguese did - all the african shore had portuguese colonies/forts.

That's because we have history, that we don't wan't to see it repeat itself.

[megacarl87]

@chukurrinow Because its a game.... chill out dude.

[ltc12695]

@chukurrinow NO BALLS!!!

[CoolKidX85]

rofl nice xD

[baskoffie]

haha! STEVE BUTTS :D

[jow3st]

steve BUTTS LOL