But for a game which is just about plain experience, you're in trouble, especially if they've got decent modding abilities. An MMO? Some different locales for you to hang around in beating up slightly different monsters for some slightly different treasure and the same old moreish XP. An RPG? Some more dungeons and a half-baked plot. A single-player first-person shooter? Some levels in which to head-shot people. In a game which is about experiencing passing through content, an add-on pack has an obvious reason to exist. Woo!Įxpansion packs are a tricky beast for something that's as much of a pure game as Civ. Meanwhile, back in the world of videogames, Civ 4's got an expansion pack. Peerless in all techniques, Rossignol is - apparently - the man for all your orgasmic needs. From what I understand - from many earnest and slightly breathless witnesses with red cheeks and tingling groins - fellow Eurogamer writer James Rossignol is a phenomenal lover. One of the more inventive mods has you playing as the Barbarians, with your objective being to destroy Civilization itself.Before we get down to the hardcore analysis of the first expansion pack for one of the best PC games of last year, I've a little information of public interest I feel compelled to disseminate. It does span the stone age up until the modern age and beyond (the game ends in the year 2050), although you can end the game in many ways (through focusing on culture, military, technology and research, or diplomacy) depending on your long term strategy - this itself depends on which civilizations you choose, as you start off with different technologies, and as later versions of the game have proven, each civilization is geared towards a certain type of gameplay though you may play it as you wish: as the Mongols I played to crush allcomers, while as the Germans I played to out-produce everyone and gain several technologies, for instance.Ĭiv4 is highly moddable, and there have been numerous fan-based mods (some of the better ones of which have also appeared with the official expansions) where you can recreate specific world conflicts, play in different settings (including a future world, a fantasy world, and outer space itself) etc. In the basic game (the game itself is far from basic ) you guide a small tribe towards building cities, farms, military units, and discovering new technologies along the way, eventually creating a large country among other rival civilizations, involving trade, war, diplomacy, etc. Click to expand.It's essentially a good old fashioned civilization simulator.
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