The game has been out for two weeks and the first mods are starting to appear. Most of them are still quite simple but some show a lot of potential. If you haven’t noticed yet, I have added a Mods section to the site. I’ll be adding more mods over time but for now the [...]
TomsGames interviewed Colonization producer Jesse Smith about Civ IV: Colonization. It’s an interesting interview, giving some rare insights into how Colonization came to be. Here’s a snippet:
TG: How much effort was put into Colonization’s multiplayer experience, and what sort of scenarios do you anticipate players will find themselves in when matching against others to [...]
While here in Europe we’re still waiting for the game to arrive, game reviewers have been playing the game for a couple of days and are sharing their thoughts with the rest of us. A summary:
VideoGamer is scoring the game a 9 out of 10, saying:
Being the gloomy people that we are, we’ve tried [...]
The Gamespot editors went head to head in a game of Colonization and wrote up their findings in a Hands-On Multiplater preview. A snippet:
It wasn’t long before we ran into a village belonging to the English—controlled by another player. The city was low on resources, and it was the hope of that player that founding [...]
The Spanish faction profile is up and concludes IGN’s profile overview:
Jose de San Martin
Liberator of Chile, 1st President of Peru
Lived: 1778 - 1850
Traits: Conquistador (+25% vs. Natives), Resourceful (-50% XP needed for unit promotions)
Groomed from a young age for the life of a soldier, Jose de San Martin would grow to lead the [...]
IGN’s French Faction profile is up. Here’s a blurb:
Samuel Champlain
Founder of Quebec
Lived: 1567 - 1635
Traits: Cooperative (Natives are more tolerant, -50% time spend living among Natives to learn a new skill), Enterprising (+100% Native conversion rates from Missions)
A soldier, sailor, and scribe, Samuel de Champlain founded the French colonial capital of Quebec and [...]
Worthplaying posted up a preview of Colonization and they seem quite taken by what the game has to offer.
The actual process of building up your city and managing your colonists is intuitive and delightful, but you are going to lose most of your battles with the CPU unless you opt to play titles on [...]
IGN followed Firaxis producer Jesse Smith while he was playing a session of Colonization as the English faction.
Forum user Greybriar accidentally stumbled upon Take 2’s official Civ IV: Colonization site. There’s not much to see or do there as it consists only of a single page, but it does give a nice overview of what’s to come and does so in five different languages.
IGN’s English Faction profile is also up. A snippet:
John Adams
Second President of the United States
Lived: October 30, 1735 - July 4, 1826
Traits: Tolerant (-25% Crosses needed for immigration), Libertarian (+25% Liberty Bells in all settlements)
A diplomat, politician, lawyer and firebrand, John Adams was one of the driving forces of the American Revolution.
Born in 1735 [...]
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