Civilization IV is the most expensive of the Civilization games.
At the ninth annual Interactive Achievement Awards, Civilization IV won Strategy Game of the Year and was nominated as an entry for Overall Game of the Year and Computer Game of the Year
== Gameplay ==Civilization IV follows some of the 4X model of turn-based strategy games, a genre in which players control an empire and "explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate", by having the player attempt to lead a modest group of peoples from a base with initially scarce resources into a successful empire or civilization

