Loses its appeal after a few days. I tried to like it!

User Rating: 6.6 | Sid Meier's Civilization IV PC
By Rolls1931 | Review Date:
Introduction: With the release of civilization 4, and the score of 9.4 on gamespot, I decided to try the game. The reviews promised huge amounts of addiction and intriguing gameplay, but I recieved none of the above. Gameplay: The gameplay was pretty solid, but after about three hours of playing most people will get very bored of researching and sending individual soldiers one by one to attack the enemy. Possibly the biggest factor to my low rating of the gameplay is the combat system. It is boring, and tedious. Multiplayer didn't feel remotely like multi-player - rather just extremely aggressive computers.

Graphics: The graphics were very nice. The earth in the background of the menu was very well done, and the portraits of the leaders were shiny and nice. Graphics were probably the strongest part of the game for me. Sound: The tribal music that I heard when I first played was an immediate turn off. I thought I was going to be in hell with a lion-king soundtrack the whole time, but luckily I was mistaken. Playing as Washington you'll hear "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" performed by woodwinds, and playing as Gandhi you'll hear cultural Indian music. The soundtrack is quite nice. Value: The low score comes from me not wanting to play the game after around 18 hours of trying to like it. Tilt: I tilted it to five - (mediocrity) due to the same reason as the value part. The sound and graphics don't make up for the dull experience I had.

I don't feel that I'm qualified to give out recommendations for this one.

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