6 responses so far ↓

• 1 Krupo // Sep 27, 2008 at 12:39 am

  I want to hear more about it. Reading about it in PCG just made me think, “meh, looks too much like just a mod.”

• 2 Thomas Kiley // Sep 27, 2008 at 5:37 am

  The question we all want to know is, is it a great Mod, or have they done something very special with it?

  What is the RRP?

• 3 Michael A. // Sep 27, 2008 at 7:07 am

  This is definitely more than a mod. After one (long) evening, this feels very much like old Colonization to me. All the old strengths - and all the weaknesses of that game.

• 4 Jason Lefkowitz // Sep 28, 2008 at 6:46 pm

  Is it true that Civ 4 Colonization uses the much-hated SecuROM for its copy protection?

  As a huge fan of old-school Colonization, I purchased C4C with high expectations. Got it home and started Googling around to see how hard it would be to create an Alcohol 120% virtual disc image of the CD (so I don’t have to dig it out just to play)… and find a bunch of pages indicating that C4C is SecuROM-infected.

  If this is true, I’m hugely disappointed in Firaxis — and the gaming media, since I saw absolutely zero mentions of SecuROM in any of the pre-launch hype. I skipped Spore because of SecuROM, I skipped Mass Effect because of SecuROM, and if I’d known in advance that C4C was SecuROM-encumbered I’d have skipped it too.

• 5 Alan Au // Sep 29, 2008 at 12:40 pm

  I’m not sure if it uses SecuROM or not, as there’s no mention of it anywhere. Gee, thanks 2K. At least C4C doesn’t have any of that dial-home installation-limit nonsense, and there will probably be a no-CD executable available before too long (if there isn’t one already).

• 6 Jason Lefkowitz // Sep 29, 2008 at 3:59 pm

  They’re discussing the SecuROM issue in Amazon’s customer forums.

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