Starting today, until Friday, Sid Meier's Civilization® IV: The Complete Edition will be at half price.

US: $19.99
UK: £12.49 (1% lower)
EU: 19,99€ (48% higher)

Wow great deal. That'll easily get you well over an hour per dollar spent. This game is addicting like no other.

... i can't resist that. Shit.

This is quite tempting. I don't know if i want to use up that much hard drive space though.

I don't know if I have enough machine to justify this....

How old is your PC? 

2006 Inspiron E1505.

Dual-core T2500 @2.0 GHz, 256MB X1300, 2 GB of RAM.

Hmm, this is tempting.

come on, get it.

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and I'll use this thread to advertise the best mod I have ever played, Fall from Heaven 2, which, unsurprisingly, is a Civ4 mod. in fact, after I started playing FFH2, I could never go back to "vanilla" Civ.

Fall from Heaven is a dark fantasy game mod for Civilization 4. It is loosely based on my long running Dungeons and Dragons campaign world. Although the original D&D game provides a lot of the history, flavor and mythology in the mod a team of writers are constantly creating new material to detail the world. The intent was never to replicate the D&D campaign, but to create the best possible turn based fantasy strategy game using any material that would help.

The first version of Fall from Heaven was released on December 16th, 2005. At the time it focused on limited spells, summoning and a new unit upgrade structure. New religions and heroes followed quickly after and made Fall from Heaven a popular Civ4 mod at CivFanatics. It was popular enough to attract six team members, Woodelf, Loki, C.Roland, Chalid, Corlindale and Wilboman who began providing new ideas, art and writing for the mod.

Most importantly the team began planning Fall from Heaven II. Firaxis released the SDK for Civ4, allowing modders even more control over their games and Fall from Heaven II was designed without regard for technical limitations. Understanding that the design was going to be beyond my meager programming skills Talchas was recruited to create an elaborate spell system.

The first version of Fall from Heaven II was released on May 19th, 2006. It quickly eclipsed the popularity of the first version and became the most popular Civ4 mod in the world, a title it retains to this day. All of the original members remain active team members, additionally AlazkanAssassin, Nikis-Knight, Ploeperpengel, SeZereth, Sto and White Rabbit joined the team bringing us to 14 members.

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The game is now "feature-locked", meaning that now they only work on original art, balance issues and bug-hunting. there's even a card game with multiplayer support!

You can read the official forums at http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=190

There's an awesome PDF manual, a huge PDF with FFH lore, a huge thread with random stories, official scenarios and lots of discussion about the story too.

And the wiki at http://fallfromheaven.wikia.com/ is also a good source of information

I'm not going to touch this. I don't want to get stuck in the game as I have before. Damn game is too addictive.