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In short, this game is unique: instead of spanning a few thousand years, like in Civilization, Colonization zooms in on just a few centuries. However, this game utilizes the Civ4 engine, interface, and graphics, enhancing it for sure, but relying on the quality of Civ4 to provide a foundation. On the one hand, it is very similar to the 1994 classic, Sid Meier’s Colonization, keeping intact the founding fathers system, economic model, and overall goals (see below). Despite the fact that Civ4 is not needed to run the game, many elements have stayed the same, making Colonization both an old and new game. to release the dos version here today on steam honestly seems like a poor choice as it was the least favored version even when they were still being sold.Civilization IV: Colonization is a standalone title in the Civilization series, released in September 2008 for the PC, approximately one year after Beyond the Sword, the next most recent Civ4 expansion. Col win has much better graphic resolution and hotkeys than the dos version ever had. it was a free patch called col95.exe that they released and distributed freely for a while on their website and later I was even able to contact them directly and request a copy of the patch. I'm just saying, they dont seem to have the same exact released version that I have on cdrom.Īlso releasing the dos box version was a huge mistake as the windows version has a patch that makes it compatibale with windows xp and in turn win7. Its almost like these new fellas are distributing earlier versions that what were released, but im not stating that as a fact. seems like all these titles are a bit off comperared to their originals, I still own their originals. Nightdive may have bought the rights, but someone somewhere seems to have edited it between them purchasing it and us playing it. Originally posted by Bone White:There's no reason I can see why you'd want to pay for the originial colonization (this game) when you could play FreeCol instead.ĭont forget there is a pretty solid mod to make the new civ4 col play just like this title did.

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