Essential Info
Developer: Firaxis Games
Publisher: 2K Games
Format: Games for Windows
Release Date: 23 September 2008
ESRB: 10+
Box Artwork
 
Features
- Complete re-imagining Col1
- Civilization IV conversion built from the ground up
- All-new graphics with higher resolution than Civ4
- Enhanced water, shadows, terrain and buildings
- Brand new interface
- Improved diplomacy
- Included modding tools
- Improved performance
Expansion or Stand-alone
Colonization is in the Civ IV family of games because it's a total conversion of the Civ IV engine and Firaxis wanted Civ IV fans to know that this is a game they'd really enjoy. Civ expansions have always required the core game in order to be able to play them, and they have always included significant improvements and additions to the core game. The dev team felt that Beyond the Sword (the second expansion pack for Civ IV) delivered so many improvements and additions to the core game that Firaxis had arrived at the ultimate Civ IV experience.
Firaxis decided to focus all of their efforts on creating a new Colonization experience that would build on the Civ IV engine and deliver the addictive "just-one-more-turn" gameplay fans enjoy. Firaxis made it a stand-alone game because there are no core game additions to Civ IV included and it doesn't rely on any Civ IV game assets, so there was no reason to require the core game to play.
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