

The best thing that makes this game for me is the multiplayer, I play on the LAN with multiple friends, (Noobies and vets, since it's more friendly for noobs now) and I have a blast, we can play marathon for weeks and have so much fun with diplomacy and allying up with friends against other friends.

I will add I didn't like they left the spys and UN voting concept out for DLC, kind of felt cheated on that a little, but the game is still a great game, it's like a new flavor of the old, battles are more enjoyably, and the key concepts of tech, culture, and diplomacy are great. I love the combat with non stackables, thats one reason the AI was so good in the old, it's a computer and can manage 100 units on one tile better then a human, graphics are gorgeous. but I dig the ease of learning it new, I've been able to get more people planning it then the older ones, because everyone was just too scared. kind of sucks in a way, I do miss the control. Civ vets are obviously going to notice a big loss in micro control over tons of different aspects of the game, it's much more simple then the past. I bought civ 3, 4, and 5 too as quick as possible. I bought civ 3, 4, I love this game, I started off on civ when I illegally downloaded civ 2 and loved it so much I got my parents to buy it. I love this game, I started off on civ when I illegally downloaded civ 2 and loved it so much I got my parents to buy it. I say if you want to be introduced to this franchise, check Civilization V out. What I think is that this game is for people who are completely new or just being introduced to Civilization as I have seen some gameplay of the previous games and they look quite complicated, maybe even more complicated than this. The board game like nature of the game made me think harder than most strategy games and I also thought the overall mechanics of it was really deep. I don't know how the previous Civilization games played or how their mechanics work or how good they were but I really like the turn based style of this game. Getting my personal experience out of the way, I'm going to say how Civilization is from a new comer's perspective. This game is so addictive that I try my best to avoid playing it. I was determined to build my empire, I wanted my enemies to burn for defying my empire and I wanted to get every single hexagon spaces for my cities. When I first played this game, I couldn't stop playing until it was 8 in the morning and I was starting to hallucinate from the lack of sleep. Civilization V to a new comer like me is pure straight addiction.

I'm just going to let it out that this is the first Civilization game I have ever played and you know what? I'm glad I played this first I'm just going to let it out that this is the first Civilization game I have ever played and you know what? I'm glad I played this first because I want to play the rest of the Civilization games and see how they evolved.
