Civilization IV was an award-winning new chapter in the series in 2005, and last year's Warlords expansion pack helped make a good thing even better. And now, the Beyond the Sword expansion brings ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The title of Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword has a couple of meanings. The most obvious is that the second expansion for GameSpot's 2005 PC Game ...

I'm a ginormous Civilization fan -- Civ IV and its predecessors have eaten countless hours of my sad, lonely little life -- but hey, I know slightly more about the ancient world, so it's all ...

2K Games has blown the lid off Beyond the Sword, a second expansion for Civilization IV which is due to release in July. Beyond the Sword focuses on time periods post the invention of gunpowder ...

Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword will focus on the late-game time periods after the invention of gunpowder and will deliver 12 challenging and decidedly different scenarios created by ...

Well, what makes Beyond the Sword arguably the Civ series' finest expansion pack is that you don't really notice it's there. You play Civ 4 more or less as you've always done, and most of the ...

Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword probably won’t sway the heart of any Civ IV hater, so if you didn’t like the original game, unsurprisingly, you won’t like this expansion either.

Sid Meier's Civilization IV has already enjoyed one solid expansion pack, but this week's release of Beyond the Sword brings so much new stuff to the table that it nearly qualifies as a sequel.

The rise of your civilization through strategy and confrontation, rather than non-stop wars is something Firaxis is keen to emphasise and the 'Beyond The Sword' title is a conscious effort to ...

A concept new to Civilization IV is the leader. Instead of merely picking a civilization as you did in past versions of the game, you must pick a leader based on the civilization as well.

then comes this expansion pack. Civilization IV: Beyond The Sword. It's too good. I feel like I'm chasing the dragon again. Few simple expansion packs have ever introduced this much content.

The sleek and smooth implementation of Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword blends in extremely well with the original game. So well in fact, that a lot of the time you will find yourself ...