The Civilization Series launched in 1991 with the slogan, "Build an Empire to Stand the Test of Time". Civilization V was announced on February 18th and not only does the slogan still stand true, but Sid Meier's franchise is second to none in the genre of exploring, expanding, exploiting, and exterminating.
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.
i so cant wait
Never played a Civilization, but this looks pretty cool. I may have to give it a try.
Looks like some nice improvements over Civ IV.
Have these "previewers" never played Civilization 4 in the past, or do they just not understand their shapes?
Each plot in Civilization 4 was a square, yes. But that meant you could move your unit in one of 8 directions, the obvious up, down, left, right, and the plots diagonal to them.
This new hexagonal plot approach definitely sounds interesting and perhaps an improvement based on the new battle system, but we still have less freedom as to which plots we can move to. We only have 6 choices now, as opposed to 8 in previous Civilization installments!