Sid Meier's Civilization IV 2005

Released: October 25, 2005
Genres: Simulator · Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Platforms: PC · Mac
Developer: Firaxis Games
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Is it still worth playing?

Firaxis Games' 2005 turn based strategy game for Windows, designed by Soren Johnson, with a Mac version in 2006. It starts in 4000 BC and can end in five ways: conquest, a supermajority of land and population, a spaceship to Alpha Centauri, culture or a UN vote. Great People, spies, missionaries and workers shape a civilization, seven religions spread by missionaries or trade routes, and units gain promotions. The rules are stored in XML, and an in game World Builder lets you make maps. It was the first in the series in full 3D, and its theme Baba Yetu was the first video game music to win a Grammy. Growing your cities toward one of five different victories still carries the game today.