A.C.S. Announces "CivIV" Coverage

[DanQ]

Apolyton Civilization Site ( http://apolyton.net ) [ACS], one the premiere online fansites for the Civilization computer strategy gaming series and its extended family, is today announcing its formal intention to cover the fourth incarnation of the Civilization series. From developer Firaxis Games and publisher 2K Games, a division of Take-Two Entertainment, comes Civilization IV with an anticipated release this coming winter. It is to be covered in full on ACS as are any and all expansion packs that may follow. News items for the up-and-coming title are currently housed in the ‘Miscellaneous’ section of the site, and will continue to be so until a complete section for CivIV is compiled and online.

"It is the long-standing endurance and superior reputation of the Civilization series that keeps us going", says ACS Co-Owner/Administrator Daniel “DanQ” Quick. "Almost seven years ago ACS was formed to better serve the growing Civ community online. Since then the strength of this community has permitted us the opportunities and resources to expand our quality coverage to closely related turn-based and even real-time strategy series. There has never been any doubt in our mind that should CivIV go into development, we would cover it too. We are pleased that our commitment can be realized".

ACS’ original coverage was limited to Civilization, Civilization II, and Civilization: Call to Power back when it officially launched in July of 1998. Since then, Apolyton has added coverage to Civilization III, Call to Power II, Alpha Centauri, Master of Orion III, the Galactic Civilizations series, Rise of Nations, the now-defunct Dinosaurs endeavour and numerous so-called ‘Alternative Civs’ most notably Freeciv.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Nikolai]

Good. But it was on time. Now it's all up to Firaxis!

[Dinner]

I'd rather it be late then crap. Personally, I'd lock them in a room with nothing but a computer and CTP2 for a week or to so they can see how to design a good interface.

[Zoid]

Great! Hopefully Civ 4 wont be the suckfest Civ 3 was at the beginning

[spartak]

Perhaps they should use the smax engine and just fix the bugs.

[Zoid]

I´ve wanted a combination of SMAC/X and (the final version of) Civ III for a long time. Alas, that will never happen

[spartak]

Poo. Why?

[Gramphos]

Well the reason why Civ3 is so buggy is that it's based on an old enginee to start with. I say that I hope thay start from scratch rather than rying to same a few weeks of development byadapting obsolete code from an old game. That only creates bugs, trying to extend on an existing base.

[Zoid]

Originally posted by spartak
Poo. Why?

Because Civ III eventually became a great game, albeit lacking in certain departments. Combine the greatness of SMAC with the best bits of Civ III and you would have a killer game IMO.

[Brent]

I think it can and may well be neither late nor crap. But what we should do is lock them up until the end of November with Civ2, Civ3, Colonization, Axis and Allies, Lord of the Rings, a manyvolume encyclopedia of world history, and access to our Civ4 forum, the CFC Civ4 forum, the CivWiki, and the Civ3 list. Maybe throw in a time machine somewhere too. They might need some food too. Maybe toss in the Dune strategy games. They can spend some of the time playing Risk and Chess too.

[spartak]

Originally posted by Kamrat X


Because Civ III eventually became a great game, albeit lacking in certain departments. Combine the greatness of SMAC with the best bits of Civ III and you would have a killer game IMO.

Actually, I meant why would it not happen?

[alva]

Oh, and Dan, could you please not use coloured text, it's quite difficult to read using certain themes(in my case MoO3).

[Zoid]

Originally posted by spartak
Actually, I meant why would it not happen?

Well it haven´t happened so far, and Firaxis seems reluctant to dig up the old SMAC/X engine. But you never know, maybe a few years down the road? If there can be a Colonization II, there might very well be a SMAC/X II

[Atahualpa]

ACS announces Civ4 coverage - who would have guessed that

[Asmodean]

It had to come, of course, but it's nice anyway

Asmodean