It features great new graphics, new features, and a new combat system while still maintaining the same core game mechanics that has made this series popular for so many years. It could put a strain on your relationship with your bed, too, causing you to loose countless hours of sleep and before you know it it'll be light outside, the children will be asking what's for breakfast and you'll find you've got half an hour before you need to be at work.Civilization V is here and it’s as addictive as ever. My computer also hung for a few seconds when it was loading a message from one of the world's other leaders unhappy with some aggressive action I had shown towards them or some smaller nation.Ĭivilization 5 is one of those games that will command your attention from the moment you start playing. My PC, with a Core 2 duo CPU running at 2.13Ghz, 2Gb ram and nVidia 8600GTS graphics card, played the game well, but at times when the computer was determining its next move there were delays of 15 to 20 seconds.
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You'll need a fairly hefty PC to get the most out of it, both graphically and performance- wise. It's a minor annoyance that the game is accessed through the Steam online system, but that will ensure speedy patches and updates when needed. The benefits include additional military units every 20 turns or increasing your civilisation's cultural influence or access to resources.
The influence, too, of city states is also a big change for the series, with civilisations in other parts of the world playing a big role in how well you do.ĭiplomacy is a key strategy for in keeping allies and befriending other states.
For example, ranged units, such as archers, can be moved to a safe location but still strike an enemy long before it has reached your own borders.Īnother change is that cities can now bombard enemies with a ranged attack, so there is now no need to constantly stack military units in your city. You can now only place one unit on each "hex" and it forces you to be more strategic in how you plan battles. The game's map has now been segmented into things called "hexes", which is a tile-based system that offers more detail of how the land lies and what resources are available. The more direct your path through each technology, the quicker you'll move through each age and the faster you'll develop technologies and resources.
It's still the same brain- searing, thought-provoking Civilization of old.įor newcomers, the Civilization series features turn- based games where you move military units and settlers around the game's "tiles", conquering foes while at the same time expanding your founding city's influence and leading it through technological ages. Some of the simplifications in the console version, such as the refined user interface, have been carried through to the PC version, with much more information now available to the player.Īlthough that's not to say that the gameplay has been simplified: It hasn't. The last Civilization game that I played was Civilization Revolutions on the Xbox 360, the first time the famed series from Sid Meier appeared on a console, and while it was a stripped-down version of the PC classic, it was enticing enough to suck long hours of gameplay out of me. Like Civilization games of old, this new edition has the magical power to suck you into its virtual world and cause you to lose countless hours as you explore the dawn of new ages. Civilization V is one of those games where you say to yourself "One more turn then I'll go to bed", then you realise that two hours have passed.
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