Power and Tyranny in Civilization IV (Blogcritics.org)
Civ IV deserves praise for integrating religion into the game play, but in the end it becomes one more tool for tyranny. It took awhile, but after its release in 2005, the latest installment of the popular computer game Civilization IV was received warmly by many cultural commentators. Civilization IV, or Civ IV for short, was hailed alternatively as “a video game for the ages,” and “a kind of …
