New Civ IV Expansion Announced, Ninja Gaiden DS

A new expansion pack for Civilization IV has been announced, with an emphasis on the late-game portions of the title. CVG says that new civilizations, technologies, and leaders will be available; added functionality includes the ability to form corporations and spread them throughout the globe, new espionage elements, and the ability to start games further up the tech ladder. "Advanced Starts: A major fan request, this new feature will enable players to 'buy' components of a custom-tailored empire and begin play in the later part of the game, allowing them to experience many of the new features of the expansion pack in a shorter amount of time." Also newly announced: Ninja Gaiden:Dragon Sword for the DS, an overhead 3D action game wholly unlike the side-scrolling original titles. That article, at 1up, also points out that a demo for the PS3 Ninja Gaiden title will be available in April.

I definitely won't be buying Ninja Gaiden DS

Forking over $40 for a new Xbox controller because a wall collided with it is one thing, but $130 for new DS? That's a whole new ballgame...

Thanks Fraxis

A new expansion pack for Civilization IV has been announced

That's a week of my life gone, ... Gee thanks Fraxis. ;P

FP?

Only a Week?

You're lucky. The total time I've wasted on civ games is measured in percent of life expectancy.

Damn

You combined two stories.

I thought the new Civ expansion pack was Ninja Gaiden.

IMAGINE HOW FUCKING COOL THAT WOULD BE.

Instead of one cool game, we're talking about two lame ones. :(

Hah!

I already have Ninja Gaiden for my Lynx.

Take That!

Less Civilization

and more Alpha Centauri!

Re:Less Civilization

i agree!

building a globe-spanning empire is great and all, but what really made AC fun was embodying the wonderful characters they invented for the leaders. the philosophically zen but emotionally void chen-xi wang, and the ruthless fire and brimstone of miriam godwinson were the most fun for me to emulate. of course, the cyber hippie (diedre skye) was another favorite.

and yeah i know "wonder movies" are considered fluff, but damn AC had some brutal and brilliant ones! there was a ton of clever writing that went into that title.

Re:Less Civilization

the philosophically zen but emotionally void chen-xi wang, and the ruthless fire and brimstone of miriam godwinson were the most fun for me to emulate. of course, the cyber hippie (diedre skye) was another favorite.

Sheng-ji Yang is a paranoid reactionary fool intent on establishing a repressive dictatorship and stifling all creativity, while Godwinson is simply a dangerous fundamentalist and a threat to all intellectual integrity and human progress upon Planet. Dierdre Skye is at least reasonable, and her Green policies combine well with our current research projects into the nature of the xenofungus; of course our interest is purely scientific, while hers seems rather emotional. Oh, but I should tell you that it is in fact true: she does dance naked through the trees. The nanomachinery lab at Zarya Sunrise recently developed a new type of microlens allowing the construction of invisibly small spy cameras. We've seeded them throughout the pine forests at Gaia's Landing, and we're negotiating with MorganNet to obtain a fair price for the movie rights...

Civ IV: Ninja Gaiden

I totally had images of Ninja units in Civilization IV... or maybe a ninja civilization to start the game with... or maybe just ninjas dominating the whole world.

What, you mean they're totally unrelated? Oh. My bad.

new AI priorities? excellent...

i do hope that this expansion adds a new early history development aspect with a leader or civilization that puts the alphabet ahead of some other techs. perhaps leaders that play go for bronze-working while building the oracle (to achieve free metal casting!). perhaps a roman leader that tries to conquer the world with the almost overpowered praetorians?

i'm excited to see this, especially since i'll be out of college and have much more time to devote to ruling the world...

Re:Advanced Starts aren't new

Advanced starts aren't the same as starting in a later era. It's about "buying" stuff for your empire as well, as the announcement says. By the way: hi Friedrich, fancy meeting you here :).

Re:Advanced Starts aren't new

I thought you could have an advanced start from Civ I, or at least Civ II. Granted, it was just the AI had a couple of turns for you at the beginning, during which time they would build your capital in some crappy spot and maybe build a second city with overlapping resource squares, but it was definitely there.