I'm still new in Civilization 4 and had a lot of questions about playing the game. I'm finding the game to be insanely complicated so please keep that in mind while giving your answer. If you use too much game jargon I won't understand. Thanks for your help in advance.
Question: Is there anyway I can record my game? I would like to record my game and ask for people's comments or help. Or I would like to replay step by step someone else's game so I can learn the basics.
The civilization in-game tutorial left me filled with too many questions unanswered.
Best Answer
Whenever you finish a game (either winning or losing/retired, does not matter), you will be able to see a quick replay of the whole game on a symbolic, strategic map, showing land, cities and borders. The finished game report shows some various, concise bits of information about each Civilization achievements, such as founded cities, completed wonders, captured/razed cities or attracted great people. Each finished game is then placed in Hall of Fame, and you can see such replay of every game placed there.
As far as I know, there is no way to record game as a whole, including technologies invented, civics chosen, units produced etc., as in Starcraft or Warcraft 3 - this could be problematic, since games in Civilization usually consume quite a few hours (I completed a few that took a dozen or more hours - in single player of course). This might have changed in one of Civ4 expansions - just note that I played only the original version.