When it comes to turn-based strategy gaming, no one does it better, or has been around longer, than Sid Meier; any list of the top 10 strategy games of all time could be largely filled with games developed by Meier, but his best-known are the Civilization series. It has been three long years since Civilization IV was released, but now Meier, with his Fireaxis development studio and 2k Games, is back with Civilization IV: Coloniz­ation. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because it’s a remake of the original, released way back in 1994.


Your purpose is to establish a colony in the New World, build a number of settlements and then declare your independence from your own sovereign state.