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New Atari Games Revealed

Posted by Zonk on from the go-macedonia! dept.

Thanks to HomeLANFed for the news that several new Atari games have been revealed on the official site. These include the action title "Chronos", and the much anticipated Civilization IV.

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  1. Civ IV by OrangeStar · · Score: 3, Funny

    With a new title! "Almost as good as the last one!" Which was almost as good as the last one..

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    1. Re:Civ IV by Daetrin · · Score: 3, Interesting
      With a new title! "Almost as good as the last one!" Which was almost as good as the last one..

      Actually, if you'd been paying attention to previous news on the subject, you would know that a more proper title would be "As different from the previous game as we can make it and still call it Civilization," which will doubtless please some people and cause them to declare that it's the best Civ other while enraging others and causing them to declare that it's the worst Civ ever.

      And generally speaking, the majority of people seem to agree that Civ2 was a big improvement over the original Civ, while opinion is split on whether Civ2 or Civ3 was better.

      And in other news, as the updated article now says the games are no longer listed, which makes sense since as far as I can tell the list consists entirely of already released games.

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  2. You sure about that? by Orne · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because i just clicked on Show All (after visiting Atari's page linked in the article), and Civilization IV is no longer in the list. Perhaps someone noticed, and retracted the listings.

    The internet, it is fleeting...

  3. "offical" statement from Atari by pjgunst · · Score: 5, Informative


    There truly is a Civ 4, but we are not announcing anything definitive about it just yet. The majority of Firaxis's programmers at this point are focused on the Sid Meier's Pirates! release this November. But a team has been working on Civ 4 for sometime already.

    We'll have more information available in 2005, including features, screenshots, and some sort of launch date.

    Best,
    Jeff Foley
    Sr. Brand Manager
    Atari

  4. Re:I've been saying for the longest time by Scrameustache · · Score: 3, Informative

    The original Atari folded for good in the mid to late 90s.

    80's, actually, this is like the 5th fompany or so to use the name. Highly recognised name brand, people feel confident about it, more than about "infogramme" anyway.

    Sneaky? You betcha!

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