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Sid Meier's Civilization IV Gold Edition announced

by: Dan - posted: 7/9/2007 10:07:00 AM
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On July 17th, PC fans of Sid Meier's Civilization IV will have the opportunity to pick up a Gold Edition of the game. The Gold Edition contains both Civilization IV and Civilization IV: Warlords as well as a game manual, two posters and a behind-the-scenes DVD. The Gold Edition will hit stores just before the highly-anticipated Civ IV expansion pack 'Beyond the Sword'. See full details after the jump:

2K Announces Sid Meier's Civilization IV™: Gold Edition

2005 PC Game of the Year Sid Meier's Civilization IV™, Civilization IV: Warlords™ and exclusive bonus content – all in one box

New York, NY - July 9, 2007 - 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), announced today Sid Meier's Civilization IV™: Gold Edition for PC. Containing Sid Meier's Civilization IV™ and its first expansion set, Civilization IV: Warlords™ plus an impressive list of bonus items, the Gold Edition allows gamers who have not yet experienced the thrill of ruling the world to now own the two most recent games in the world's greatest strategy franchise for one incredible value. Developed by Firaxis Games™, 2K's world-renowned development studio, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition ships to retailers in North America on July 17, 2007.

Sid Meier's Civilization IV is an award-winning strategy game that challenges players to build and expand an empire, throughout all of human history, and become the most powerful ruler the world has ever known. With the Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Warlords expansion pack, players have even more options to win by military might - including the powerful Warlord unit - and have six new civilizations, ten new leaders and eight additional scenarios from which to choose.

With more than eight million units sold, the Sid Meier's Civilization® series is recognized as one of the greatest gaming franchises of all time. Civilization IV has been hailed as "The best version of Civilization yet" by IGN and was awarded "PC Game of the Year" by several top gaming outlets, like GameSpot, GameSpy and IGN. In addition to Civilization IV and Civilization IV: Warlords, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition includes these bonus features:

  • Exclusive fantasy-style poster from world-famous artist Greg Hildebrandt (illustrator of the original "Star Wars" fantasy-themed "Clash of the Titans" movie poster, "Lord of the Rings" calendars and posters and other seminal artwork)
  • Behind-the-scenes DVD with developer interviews, insight into the Civilization IV development process and a short feature on Sid Meier's video game history
  • Tech-tree poster featuring the paths to researching and discovering all of the technologies needed to advance in Civilization IV
  • Civilization IV Game Manual

"Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition is a great way to get into the award-winning Civilization IV series," said Christoph Hartmann, President of 2K. "Gamers will now have the chance to change the course of world history and relive battles from every era of the past with both Civilization IV games in one box - in stores just in advance of the highly anticipated second Civ IV expansion pack, Beyond the Sword."

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Gold Edition will ship on July 17th for the PC. For more information, please visit http://www.civilization.com/.