

In reality, the most revolutionary renovation is warfare. Likewise, though I wasn't certain about it for the first dozen hours or so, the new super-friendly interface has grown on me quite a bit, despite its almost over-eagerness to move things along. In practice, this turned out to be one of the least transformative changes-after just a few minutes of ordering around my units I barely noticed the difference, and I never once found myself pining for the old squares. Some seem like a bigger deal than they actually are-going in, I'd expected the most dramatic one would be the shift from the traditional map of a grid of squares to Civ V 's honeycomb of hexagons. Under the striking visual layer are innumerable changes to the usual Civ gameplay. It's the most beautiful, lively virtual game board you've ever seen. Cattle, sheep, horses and elephants graze their respective tiles indicating sources of food, mounts and ivory, and in the hypnotically glistening ocean you can see whales breaching and schools of fish swimming beneath the surface. Zooming in on a tile with a fur resource shows a pair of foxes frolicking together. The painterly art style of the randomly-generated virgin landscape you see when starting a new game feels like Monet meets Google Maps, with bright colors and stunning attention to detail. Graphics may be superficial in a game like this, but it has to be said that Civ V is indisputably the best looking turn-based strategy game ever made. You begin with a single settler in 4000 BC, and over the next 6,050 years you lead your fledgling nation turn-by-turn as you found a city, research technologies, raise an army, build history's greatest man-made wonders, expand to a sprawling empire and finally make your play for world domination - all in competition with other nations. The Complete Edition of Civilization V includes the blockbuster original game and all of its downloadable content add-on material.At a foundational level, it's very familiar.
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In addition, an extensive suite of community, modding and multiplayer elements also make an appearance. The addition of ranged bombardment allows players to fire weapons from behind the front lines, challenging players to develop clever strategies to guarantee victory on the battlefield. Wars between empires feel massive as armies dominate the landscape, and combat is more exciting and intense than ever before.

The game features fully animated leaders interacting with players from a screen-filling diplomatic scene and speaking in their native language for the first time. Civilization V takes the strategy game series in new directions with the introduction of hexagon tiles allowing for deeper strategy, more realistic gameplay and organic landscapes for players to explore as they expand their empire.
