Finished my first game of Civ4. Almost won, but another culture won the space race before I did. The part that sucks is that the reason they won was because I was so helpful to them in the middle of the game, trading them technologies at less than face value, etc. Oh well...
The game's starting to grow on me. Before I play again, I think I need to look through the manual. I didn't get a sense of how religion worked in the game, and I need to figure out a few other things as well. Overall, it was fun though.
The game worked fine, no crashes, no hangups, nothing. My coworker ahs the game as well, and he said his crashes every 10-20 minutes of gameplay. Not sure what the deal is, but I'm glad mine's stable.
If you like strategy games, it's probably worth trying. It felt a little RTS-like in the beginning, but once your civ starts growing and you have to actually do some planning (instead of just scouting the world), it does get better.
CW