It's great first, but as you continue playing and realise the many many small problems add up to a deeply flawed game, you find yourself cursing Sid Meier for sucking at the tit of another incomplete cash cow. My feeling is that they screwed up many gameplay aspects that needed to be updated to such an extent that it would've been better to leave it the way it was in 1993. I've played it through to victory for over a week straight, something in the neighborhood of 92 hours. It's hard for me to say it's a product of laziness on the part of Firaxis as they have clearly upped the ante of the graphics for the Civ IV engine, however, it seems like that was their main focus, as they then failed to smooth out too many rough edges to make it worth mentioning in this review. It's hard for me to say it's a product of laziness on the part of Firaxis as they have clearly upped the ante of the graphics for the Civ IV engine, however, it seems like that was their main focus, as they then failed to smooth out too many rough edges to make it worth mentioning in this This game has critical design errors in gameplay mechanics and many half-finished features. This game has critical design errors in gameplay mechanics and many half-finished features. I'll stick with Civ IV and its expansions. Growing your settlements while trying to create Liberty Bells (to attract Founding Fathers), building structures, and making money is difficult to achieve.which is the point, I suppose, but the "reward" for playing just isn't worth it. Interaction with your home country is irritating and can be as strange as the AI (King asks for 2500 credits on the 3rd turn of the game?) Trade route system is cumbersome. AI also misses some great industry growth.a settlement near a tobacco resource should be growing tobacco and making cigars, but the AI decides on cotton instead and doesn't bother putting settlers to work making coats. AI makes some strange decisions in putting your colonists to work (Master Ore Miner growing crops, even with an ore mine outside the settlement? Meanwhile a Master Farmer is fishing?) which requires lots of micromanagement. Colonization doesn't offer very compelling gameplay. I get bored with it after 20 or 30 minutes of play with Civ IV I would (and still do) play for hours and be angry about having to sleep so I can function at work the next day. AI makes some strange decisions in putting your colonists to work (Master Ore Miner growing crops, This game doesn't draw me in as much as Civ IV did. This game doesn't draw me in as much as Civ IV did. This made this game fresh, with lots of new opportunities to explore. New victory conditions, Portugal as a player, overall game balancing, random events and decisions, quests. And this changed greatly the game experience, bringing it closer to the original Colonization. But then, the people at Firaxis released the game mechanics source code, and some great guys at Germany / Switzerland developed the "The Authentic Colonization" mod (TAC 2.0.3). A game to be played once and then leave it. The original Colonization IV game had lot of flaws that disappointed greatly the fans of the original Colonization game, and made it kind of shallow. But a mod make it totally fresh, right now! Most games have a very finite lifecycle: you play a story from start to end, explore their features and leave them. The original Colonization IV game had lot of flaws that disappointed greatly the fans of the original Colonization This game was a disappointment at release. This game was a disappointment at release.
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