Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords Expansion Pack

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Product Features

• Bring new leaders into pre-existing Civilizations to help them advance
• Strive for world domination in this expansion pack to the award-winning game
• Play as legends like Alexander The Great and Genghis Khan
• 6 new civilizations and associated unique units; 3 new wonders
• 6 unique and interesting scenarios; 10 new leaders; 2 new leader traits

Product Details

• Our recommended age: 5 - 20 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 0 months and up
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000FHGA4S
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches ; 2 pounds
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: July 24, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,692 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords is the first expansion pack for the award-winning game that has become an instant world-wide hit. Paying homage to some of history's greatest military leaders, the expansion delivers six unique and interesting scenarios, giving players the chance to change the course of history with the help of their new powerful "warlord" unit. Civ IV: Warlords includes new civilizations, leaders, units, and wonders that offer even more fun and exciting ways for players to expand their civilization's military power as they strive for world domination.

Features:

• Warlords: a new great person type called the Warlord.
• Vassal states: conquer an enemy and subjugate them to your rule.
• Game scenarios: the expansion delivers eight scenarios.
• New civilizations: the pack provides six new civilizations and associated unique units.
• Civilization leaders: 10 new leaders, including leaders for the new civilizations as well as additional leaders for existing civilizations.
• Leader traits: two new leader traits.
• New wonders: three new wonders.
• Unique buildings: each civilization has a new unique building as well as their unique unit.
• New units, resources, and improvements: many new items are presented throughout the scenarios.
• Core game tweaks and additions: expanded features and gameplay tweaks made to the core game.
• Post-release patches and game upgrades: the pack contains all of the patches and game additions (pit boss, etc.) yet released for Sid Meier's Civilization IV.

Product Description
Civilization IV: Warlords expands the Civilization games to include the world's most successful conquerors. You'll get a chance to play as legends like Alexander The Great and Genghis Khan. March your armies across the world, as you attempt to destroy your rivals and expand your Civilization through millitary conquest. Secure your place in history by becoming the greatest conqueror thsi world has ever seen!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Obsolete Piece of Software, September 7, 2007

By	Helping Hand "Helping Hand" - See all my reviews

Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

DO NOT BUY THIS IF YOU ALREADY OWN BEYOND THE SWORD! All the core game changes, including wonders and civilizations, are included in Beyond the Sword. Only get this game if you want to have the scenarios that were included in Warlords.

40 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent expansion, September 28, 2006

By	J. A Magill (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

Long term civ fans may groan when an expansion appears, offerings to previous games in the series having offered little in the way of interesting play, but merely offered a few ornements like a new civ or some new units. Not so with Civ 4: Warlords. Of course this offers the usual, a few new civs like Koreans, Vikings, Carthanaginians, and the return of the old favorite Zulus, but that is what makes this a worthwhile expnasion. On the side of the mundane and worthwhile, the game now does things like dispalys the odds for each encounter when you attack, a useful addition to learning players. Of strategic interest the game gives each civ a unique building, really a variant on a pre-existing structure, but a wrinkle that will give players some food for thought.

Where the expansion really shines is on the creative side. The designers truly went out of their way here. THings like the chance to play the barbarians -- a faciniating idea that gives interesting perspective -- or highly creative scinarios such as one being the mongols in the conquest of asia where you have no cities and develop techs through conquest -- an excellent strategic metaphor for nomadic expansion.

Overall, those who did not like civ 4 should not bother. But for those who found them perpetually moving their cursor for "another chance" this game proves well worthwhile.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An average expansion that's essentially been phased out, September 6, 2007

By	James Davis (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This was a decent expansion to the highly addictive Civ4 release but as of the release of Sid Meiers Civilization IV Beyond the Sword the Warlords Expansion pack is really moot. Now, if price is a factor, you do pay less for the Warlords expansion but the Beyond the Sword expansion not only retains the Warlords features, it adds tons and tons of new material. Yes, 2K games should have just skipped Warlords but they didn't and to those of us who bought both Warlords and Beyond the Sword, most of us may be a bit peeved. Alas, that is the nature of the computer gaming industry.