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| From: Aspyr Media
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $39.99
You Save: $10.00 (20%)
New (9) from $39.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 1253
Platform: Mac Os X
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.1
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 11250
Model: 11250
UPC: 618870112503
EAN: 0618870112503
ASIN: B000FEYG7O
Release Date: June 30, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Can't get through a game because it Crashes December 23, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Until they release a patch for the Mac OSX - I would strongly recommend NOT buying this game, as the frequent crashes will leave you very frustrated. The game itself is great, but I haven't been able to finish a game because it keeps crashing. Good luck!
 extreme entertainment November 14, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this product is hard to put down once u start. the different scenarios add a fun challenge to the game. i defiantly recommend this to anyone who enjoys strategy and turn base style games.
 Great game poor port October 21, 2007
This is a fantastic game, but the third party port of this game leaves something to be desired. Only recently has the latest game revision become supported, but the latest expansion is not. Worse, the game suffers from crashing (mean-time to crash seems to be around 1-2 hours), poor info graphs (compared to the PC version), and a buggy world-view.
Bottom line: It's playable on Mac... it's just not equal to the PC version at all. Also, it seems to crash mainly when playing in multi-player.
Won't Run... October 4, 2007
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
So I bought this, assuming it would run on my MacPro. Apparently, that's not the case. Every time I attempt to download the 1.74 update, the game hard-freezes about 1/2 way through the download. Not only that, the game requires you to insert the DVD before playing! What is this, 1995?!? You'd think a dual-Xeon machine with 6GB RAM would have no problem running the game...
And why is there no download for the 1.74 patch? I can download 1.61c, but 1.74 requires you to use the in-game downloader. Very annoying! Not only that, the support system is convoluted. I can't possibly be the only person to have this problem! If Aspyr support doesn't answer my problem soon, I'm sending this one back to Amazon.
I'll post again if anything changes.
The game crashes often, for some reason, so I eventually stopped playing it. Perhaps by now it's updated to the point where it will play. I just can't get excited about playing it anymore.
 The best since the original! September 24, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Civilization was one of the first video games I ever played. I still remember my first game, when the computer's tanks easily rolled over my horsemen. This newest version is the best of the uneven sequels. If you don't know, the game basically tasks you to guide a civilization from the days of nomadic tribes to the conquest of space. Along the way you research technology, colonize the world, wage war, trade resources and build wonders of the world. Civilization does a little bit of everything, from strategic war gaming to city management, none of them in the detail you might find in other games, but with such a variety that you really feel like you are running a nation. The graphics in this newest version are excellent, but a bit heavy on computer requirements. Really, is it necessary to have such steep requirements for a game that is fairly simple at its heart? I would also be remiss if I didn't mention Leonard Nimoy's excellent vocal narration.
The mac version is excellent, except for one thing: Mac publisher Aspyr is doing an awful job of publishing updates. The problem is that you must be running the same version to play against PC players, so internet play is impossible until they get off their lazy behinds and update the game.
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