Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
About
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword is the second expansion of well-known turn-based strategy video game Civilization IV made by Firaxis Games. It includes 11 new scenarios, 10 new civilizations, and 16 new leaders. The game takes place in the times when gunpowder was invented. This expansion offers features like corporations, espionage, random events, advanced starts, expanded space and diplomatic victory. It also includes much more improved AI, more visually detailed units and new, improved behavior of colonies. This expansion is quite famous for its huge amount of various different mods, official and unofficial. Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword offers a broader gameplay, for example now players have option to play as any leader-civilization combination, also now players can only trade away theirs researched technologies. Once player finds specific religion-founding technology he or she has a right to choose any of the religions.
System requirements for PC
Recommended: 1.8GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent (or better), 512 MB RAM, 128 MB video card with DirectX 8 support (pixel and vertex shaders), DirectX 7 compatible sound card, 1.7 GB of free hard drive space, DirectX 9.0c (included)
System requirements for macOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.5.6
- Processor: PowerPC G5 or Intel
- CPU Speed: 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB
- Hard Disk Space: 2.5 GB free disk space
- Video Card: (ATI): Radeon 9600 Video Card (NVidia): GeForce FX 6600
- Video Memory: (VRam): 128 MB or higher
- Media Required: DVD-ROM Drive
- Peripherals: Macintosh mouse and keyboard
- Supported Video Cards: NVIDIA GeForce 6600, 6800, 7300, 7600, 7800, 8600, 8800, 9400, 9600, GEFORCE GT 120, GEFORCE QUADRO FX 4500 ATI Radeon 9600, 9650, 9700, 9800, X600, X800, X1600, X1900, HD 2400, 2600, 3870
- NOTICE: Intel integrated video chipsets are not supported.
- NOTICE: Apple original CPU’s only, CPU upgrades not supported
- NOTICE: This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive) REQUIRES THE FULL VERSION OF Civilization IV for Mac OS X TO PLAY
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