There are tons of different civilizations in Civ4, I decided to start with the Arabian Empire and become an expert at it. Well, I played 4 games so far, each lasting between 2-6 hours, and lost them all. Lost the first 2 because of barbarians that randomly attack my empire. After I had increased the amount of military influence and expanded my borders, I lost again to other civilizations that waged war. Diplomacy is available and sometimes I do keep foreign civs happy, but if they want to expand, they will attack no matter what the cause.

Civ4 is a game requiring lots of balancing strategies or else loss is inevitable. In fact, I lost the 4th time because I expanded quickly, eliminating my neighboring French civ, and then producing military units like crazy. City upkeep reached extremely high (-20/turn) that funds in my treasury plummeted in few moves, disbanding all my military and starting an age of strikes. Moral: Never expand too fast! </p>

Civ4 is a good strategy turn-based game, but the interface is not smooth, and many things are actually done automatically. I want more control over the progress over city building. It differs from Caesar series in that you don't build a city in Civ4, but rather an empire. Also, if I'm building the Hagia Sophia or the Pyramids or whatever, I want to see it on my map. Viewing the city doesn't show it as well. Go figure...

Updated games collection with whatever games I could think on the top of my head. Will add more later when I have time.

Finished this game on April 4, 2006. A nice game in 3D, enjoyed the main character a lot. The support IDs were very friendly, unique and extremely useful in beating Dracula. Levels designs were horrible, but the boss fights were interesting, albeit a bit easy. Music rocks! I have the soundtrack also.I doubt I will play this game again, though I did unlock Trevor Belmont (strong but useless skills). I didn't unlock everything, but then again, I finished it in less than 20 hrs!- Megatrex