Players will be challenged to guide their people from the oppressive motherland, discover a New World, negotiate, trade and fight as they acquire great power and battle for their freedom and independence. A re-imagining of the classic Colonization game Sid Meier created in 1994, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is a total conversion of the Civilization IV engine into a game experience in which players will lead a European nation on their quest to colonize and thrive in the New World. Customize your games and choose your own level of difficulty so you never play the same game twice.Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is the third offering in the award winning Civilization IV series.Play either the French, English, Dutch, or Spanish colonial powers, each with distinct characteristics and political situations.Plant a foothold in the New World and establish your independence in Sid Meier’s Colonization! Overseeing economic, military, and political growth, you strive to establish independence from the mother country while competing with other colonies for control of the New World.

This New World can be the historically accurate Americas (North and South) or a randomly generated world with varying resources and challenges. Players control either English, French, Dutch, or Spanish colonists in the New World. Only then can you launch your revolution and declare your independence. You'll have to overcome your foes with superior military strategy and wily diplomacy.

But beware of your enemies! Angry natives and rival powers can encroach upon your territory. The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise, and infinite possibility: your colonists anxiously follow you to shore and the treasures of an entire continent await you. Discover the New World and fulfill your Manifest Destiny!

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