US mobile gamers get Civilization IV

Will the War of Two Cities cross the Atlantic though?

| May 15, 2008

| Sid Meier's Civilization IV: War of Two Cities

US publisher Oasys Mobile has just released Sid Meier's Civilization IV: War of Two Cities for mobile phones.

The game, which is on sale now in the States, claims to take "classic aspects of Civilization and pulls them into a new strategic game".

It's certainly new. Instead of building a civilization up over several centuries, the game focuses down onto a single city, which you control and have to protect against a neighbouring metropolis that wants to destroy you.

Whether hardcore fans of the PC games will be happy with that remains to be seen. As does whether Oasys' game gets a release over here in Europe.

However, it's not the first time Civilization has gone mobile. Korean publisher Com2uS released a mobile version of Civilization III in 2005, while Nokia released a version of Civilization for its original N-Gage in 2006.

Stuart Dredge

Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)

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