Re: Civilization IV
Ah_dut, it depends whether you like Civ-type games (ie slow turnbased, with an emphasis on building rather just total war). If you do, I think it is very nice addition to the genre. Lots of fun features and keeps the same tried n tested turnbased strategy game play. It's a pretty substantial game (the manual is 200 pages, pretty much all solid content), so it is worth a full price tag (I saw it in ASDA today for £29.99). So far, I've got to 1750 or so in an epic huge game on noble (the neutral difficulty setting), and it's been fun - building wonders, developing cities, winning the tech race, getting stabbed in the back and fighting wars of vengenance etc.
Whether there is a better game out right now, I don't know. BI is better, but other than that nothing recent has grabbed my eye (Oblivion is the next one on my radar).
Froggy, I'm glad you can hear the opening music - I really took a liking to it when I found out it was the Lord's prayer in Swahili (knowing the meaning behind it gives it more gravitas).
I agree with your assessment of traits - in terms of leaders, I'd recommend Elizabeth. I nearly always play English as I find it easier to remember my towns. But she has two nice traits - financial hauls in the cash (good for a tech lead) and philosophical give you more great leaders which are just fun. The redcoat is a nice and flavoursome unit - it kicks in about the time I might want to fight (being a turtler by nature), although even on epic it was very quickly made obsolete by infantry.
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