CIV4 release date?

New Civ? There goes the next couple of months

Some of the screenshots on that page look a bit confusing (this one for instence -- arrows and circles and lines and such.. whats all that about?). Can't wait to have a go all the same.

No reviews / previews about yet no?

officially, release is 25th of October stateside (on 2 CDs), 4th november across Europe (on DVD, don't know why they use different formats)


from http://www.civfanatics.com/

2 CDs for North America, DVD for Europe
posted by Thunderfall at 10-22-2005 13:10 | comments: 23
Forum member Mercade contacted Firaxis about the DVD requirement of Civilization IV and received a reply from Kelley Gilmore, Marketing Manager at Firaxis:

Civ IV will ship on 2 CD-ROMs to North American stores on October 25th and on a DVD to stores in Europe on November 4th.

I pre-ordered mine form Play.com (for only €28 delivered, great deal) they say they're posting on the 28th, this friday, but i've noticed play.com do this before with new releases, i guess they're allowed because of delay in post, the idea being consumers get it around the day of official release and don't have to wait for an extra week.

However, living here in Ireland as I do, it usually takes about 2 weeks (8-10 working days) for deliveries to arrive. I hope i'll have it on the 4th, but that's only 4 working days after dispatch with the bank holdiay.

klorin wrote:

Also seems to be some "bugs" in Civ 4 especially with newer ATI graphics cards.. See http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=133133

Hopefully they have a patch out to the 4th Nov.

K

i've an X800, i see it mentioned on the link... rats. I also see a potential fix mentioned so i'll keep my fingers crossed. If Play are only posting on the 4th it'll be more like the 18th when i get mine

Still, i figure i've saved at least €20 or so, and i've no money to spare atm.

Manach wrote:

email from play.com - "Your order is posted". Rubs hands in glee.

Got it too, teehee. I tortured myself by reading the long gamespot.com review, I wants it, my precious!

Have civ 3 and all the expansions. Was always meaning to get around to playing the game but never did.

Ouch man, that's really bad luck! After waiting so long.

Return it and go buy it from the high street. I know the 50 odd quid most places are selling it for may seem like daylight robbery, but once you're playing its well well worth it. Absolutely class game.

Manach wrote:

Very bad luck.
The cheapest so far I've seen it was in XtraVision for about 40€.

well i've decided just to buy it in a shop as the turnaround would be at least another month. What extravision was this?

delly wrote:

Got mine in HMV for €35 a couple of weeks ago

a friend told me it was ~€55 in HMV, hmmm i'll check it out. Thanks.

Smyths is currently out of stock, i'm planning on getting it tm anyhow, i hope HMV will have it at low price but I doubt it, I also hope Game have reduced it. I've suffered enough methinks!

Thanks delly for info...

I'm sitting at home reading the manual and looking at the tech tree, torture.

Gyck wrote:

Anyone bought it from Game in the Dundrum center? I'm wondering how much it costs up there...

just picked it up in Game, tallaght for €54.99... curse the fickle fates.