A few weeks ago, 2K Games announced that they are working with Firaxis Games on a new Civilization game: Civilization V. This is the first new Civilization game in 3 years, so people have good reason to be excited for this new release. While many fans of the Civilization series are already saying that this will be "the best Civilization EVER!" based solely on the screenshots, it is fairly hard to tell what 2K really has planned for this game quite yet. Right now, all that's been confirmed are a few leaders, a new combat system (thank god), improved diplomacy screens, a new engine for the game to run on, and (my favorite) hexagonal tiles. Right now, nobody outside of 2K and Firaxis has seen any of these new features in action, so it's pretty hard to tell how the features are actually going to play out.
Civilization V continues to be one of the most popular grand-strategy games you can play on Steam, for about three years.
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Philip Boyes:
When I was a kid, I played a lot of Civilization 2. I played a lot of strategy games in general, but having a deep love of both history and sci-fi, the epic sweep of Civ 2 from prehistory to the stars held a particular appeal. I loved taking my little people from their huts and ziggurats to the world of science and advanced space-flight.
