{"id":796,"date":"2005-10-28T21:58:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T00:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=796"},"modified":"2005-10-30T20:33:25","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T23:33:25","slug":"civilization-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Civilization 4 (I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">M<\/span><a href=\".\/wp-content\/ci_v3.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-ci_v3.jpg' alt='ci_v_4' class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>anaged to get &#8216;Civilization 4&#8217;, the long expected successor of (ha, you guessed it) &#8216;Civilization 3&#8217;. According to EB Games, the game came just in today. Short overview:\n<\/p>\n<p>I had a hard time at the start after installing the game: while my graphics card is obviously out of date, at the start of the game the main map was completely &#8216;black&#8217;. It took over 10 turns to have the map to get colours and that&#8217;s when (slowly) &#8216;land silhouttes&#8217; started to become visible.  It has to do with the game and apparently colours start to appear when your &#8216;first city&#8217; starts to expand. Completely different than previous Civs: I almost figured it was time to find another computer to start an install (something I may consider).\n<\/p>\n<p>The game (upto Medieval times) is good and responsive, playing with 5 AI opponents. The AI (definitely) focusses first on &#8216;diplomatic&#8217; solutions. The game is reasonably fast: zooming in and out on the map goes <em>smooth<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>While I could just dive in the gameplay (experienced Civ player), I noticed that there&#8217;s a lot of &#8216;religion stuff&#8217; going on in the background. In Civ 4 you can also try to spread the word of your religion, which may (or may not) be fun at the end of the game. There are several things specialized: you can for example build cattle farms, farmland, workshops, cottages and others around a city. This feels weird.\n<\/p>\n<p>Back to the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managed to get &#8216;Civilization 4&#8217;, the long expected successor of (ha, you guessed it) &#8216;Civilization 3&#8217;. According to EB Games, the game came just in today. Short overview: I had a hard time at the start after installing the game: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}