US mobile gamers get Civilization IV
Will the War of Two Cities cross the Atlantic though?
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.