For an expansion this is a good one.

User Rating: 6 | Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword PC
If your main Civilization IV game wasn't a problem to begin with, this expansion very well might cause one. But if it doesn't, or if you manage to tweak your system enough to fix the issues, it's pretty cool.

For me, and my system which way surpasses the minimum required needs of the main game and this add-on, this game was mostly non-stop trouble in a huge and maddening way.

So for the few moments at a time that I wasn't wanting to throw my system against a wall, the game was just peachy and had a lot to offer.

I think they need to raise the minimum requirements by leaps and bounds, and they need to get someone to manage their support team, because I couldn't get any help.

When I tried removing the game from my system, it caused a full crash and I lost a lot of valuable information. Truly sad indeed and a learning lesson.

I will never again be playing a Civ game on a system that has information I actually need on it.