Listen to the Rain

I've racked up over 500 hours of Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword at this point, so I figured I should review it. But really...I can't, actually. Of those 500 hours, maybe ~7-8 hours of that is vanilla Civ IV, ~30 hours is the Caveman2Cosmos mod (which is itself really great for a certain type of person)...and all the rest of those 500 hours were playing Fall from Heaven or modded versions of same.

So, what is Fall from Heaven, then? Well, if you didn't click the above link and want me to tell you, I'll sum it up--it had its genesis in the lack of differentiation in religions in the game (eloquently summed up in What If Civilization Had Lyrics? as "Spread your equally-valid religion!"), and then later expanded to included fantasy races, magic, an overhaul of the promotions system that makes unit promotions much more important than in vanilla, a huge expansion of barbarians, including wild animals and monsters, dungeons and ruins to explore, and an Armageddon Counter that ticks up as the game progresses and makes the AI more aggressive, summons the four horsemen, and warps the landscape as Hell starts leaking into the material world.

Also, it looks a bit different:



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