2K Games is bringing a new title "conceived from the ground up" exclusively to PC this autumn in the form of Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization.
If that wasn't enough to tickle your taste buds, you'll be thrilled to know that it'll not only use the Civilization IV engine, it'll take advantage of it. Colonization doesn't even need the original Civilization IV game to run it.
"We've received many requests from fans over the years to bring back Colonization and now seemed to be the perfect time to do that," said Sid Meier. "The Civilization IV engine provided a fantastic foundation for a new Colonization experience and allowed us to create something great for both new players and long time fans of the game."
So you'll lead one of four European nations on a quest to conquer and rule the New World, says the blurb. You'll get to shepherd the little people from the oppressive motherland, discover a new world, and negotiate, trade and fight with the natives.
Sounds like your average package holiday abroad to us. Now there's a game waiting to be designed...
I have played both Civilisation & Colonisation, but I can't remember the difference. Aren't they essentially the same thing?
They are essentially the same sort of game - building cities, fighting rival nations etc, but Colonisation is over a much shorter time period, a smaller area and is a much more intimate experience. Rather than going all the way from dawn of time to the future, it just covers the discovery and colonisation (a-ha!) of the New World i.e. the Americas.
I loved Colonisation, and still play it now actually. Although it's in theory more limited than Civilization, it goes into a lot more detail and there's a lot more to do - like trading with the native Americans or conquering them, maintaining your relationship with your home country, dealing with colonists from rival nations, individual colonists having their own specialties e.g. expert fisherman or gunsmith or veteran soldier, producing different trade goods that you can sell to your home country, your rival colonists or the natives, and of course the final big declaration of independence and war against your home country...
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