Game of the Year. GameSpy named the game Game of the Year, PC Game of the Year, and Best PC Turn-Based Strategy Game of the Year. 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. At the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards of 2010, the song "Baba Yetu", which was written to be the title theme for Civilization IV, won in the Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist category, because it had been allowed eligibility in the competition through Christopher Tin's inclusion of the song in his subsequent release of his 2009 album Calling All Dawns. This decision made "Baba Yetu" a landmark in video game history as the first Grammy Award nomination and win for any video game theme. The editors of Computer Games Magazine named Civilization IV the best computer game of 2005, and presented it with their awards for "Best Strategy Game", "Best AI" and "Best Interface". They wrote, "It's a towering achievement, even for a series as revered as this one. Even for long-time fans of the series, playing Civilization IV is like discovering it for the very first time." Civilization IV also won PC Gamer USs "Best Turn-Based Strategy Game 2005" award. The magazine's Dan Stapleton called it "a huge facelift to a winning formula." It was nominated as PC Gamer USs "Best Multiplayer Game 2005" and overall game of the year, but lost in these categories to Battlefield 2''. References Citations Sources External links Official website Official website (Macintosh version) 2005 video games 2K games 4X video games Alpha Centauri in fiction Aspyr games 4 Cooperative video games Cultural depictions of Augustus Cultural depictions of Franklin D. Roosevelt Cultural depictions of George Washington D.I.C.E. Award for Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year winners Firaxis Games games Gamebryo games Games for Windows certified games Historical simulation games Interactive Achievement Award winners MacOS games Multiplayer and single-player video games Multiplayer hotseat games Multiplayer online games Play-by-email video games Python (programming language)-scripted video games Sid Meier games Take-Two Interactive games Top-down video games Turn-based strategy video games Video games developed in the United States Video games scored by Jeff Briggs Video games using procedural generation Video games with expansion packs Windows games Video games using Mohawk dialogue