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1. Civilization 5
   

   Player Chronicle -- Posted on Jun 19 2010

   Game: Civilization 5
   
   By: 2K
   
   Civilization 5 is the next installment in the Civilization series and although we got a preview of it, the game is still in development. What I’m about to tell you might not reflect their finished project, but is extremely accurate on what they currently have done.
   
   2K has been working on Civilization 5 for over 2 years now, they have been refining their design and the first thing you will notice when you play Civilization 5 is how inviting the game actually is. The landscape looks great with all of the rivers, mountains, oceans, and forests. The landscape will change throughout each continent you play on, which is a great comparison to real life. A major difference between Civilization 5 and the other Civilization games are the game tiles. The game tiles in Civilization 5 have been changed to hexagons compared to the normal square tiles in the past games. It makes the game landscapes transitions and graphics much more seamless and beautiful. 2K has also made the game much more inviting and easy to play by making unit functions such as; Move and Attack much easier to find compared to harder functions like deleting units, seriously why would you want to delete a unit anyway.
   
   The games combat system is much more tactical now, because you can only have 1 unit per tile, and along with the environmental combat bonuses. So for example, you can have a range unit behind an attack unit and the range unit is on the other side of the river, the range unit becomes much more deadly by shooting over attack units and having a river for protection. Notifications are now much easier to find, if anything should happen a popup on the side of the screen will appear, that way players don’t have to sort through a bunch of information to find what’s important and what isn’t. An example of this would be in a unit were to discover ruins, then a popup would be displayed on the right hand side of the screen letting you know that your unit has discovered ruins. The new Tech Tree has a great feature that hasn’t been in any other Civilization games, the ability to preset the tree to work toward a player’s goal. If you would like a certain spearman or warrior in the branch of the tree, you can click on that branch of the tree, and the game will start researching towards that branch in the most optimal way.
   
   A major aspect of the Civilization community has been the mods. Modding maps in Civilization 5 will be easier than ever, and once you have created your map, you can upload it to the games own server! Once their, anyone that is playing Civilization 5 can browse around and download your map along with many others. The city screen will help you organize your city and show you what your city is putting out. It will reveal what players are building, what is already built, what goods are being produced, the city populations, and the city workers. You can also set cities to focus on certain aspects like money, population, economy, etc. Social policies have been added into Civilization 5 and it will help players systems focus on certain aspects like building and honor, plus it will help player’s civilizations.
   
   The leaders in Civilization 5 will blow you away, not only do they look extremely good, they engage enemies using their own home country tactics! But don’t get too excited, because if their old tactics aren’t working their AI is set to do whatever necessary to bring their enemies down. The lead designer of Civilization 5 wanted people to feel like they were playing against friends rather than a CPU. City-states are a fun factor for the game, because they offer bonuses to your civilization that you otherwise wouldn’t have. But, if a city-state of yours gets attacked then you will have to choose whether or not it’s important enough to defend, or to let it fall.
   
   When conquering a city, you will talk to its leader, when in discussion with its leader, you can offer to buy the city, trade cities, or declare war. Once you declare war, you must knock out all HP of the city your attacking to occupy it, once the city has fallen you must make another choice. You can annex the city into your own civilization, burn it to the ground, or make it a puppet government; whatever decision you make will affect your own civilization in a positive or negative manner.
   
   If you are in a tight spot and will lose the war, you have one remaining option, but it should always be used as a last ditch effort, that option would be to nuke the enemy. Once you have nuked a city you have declared an all out war to the end.
   
   This game has amazing graphics and pays special attention to detail. 2K have spent a lot of time and money with this game, and it definitely shows! I give it a 5/5 stars and is a must have for past Civilization players. If you haven’t played Civilization before, it is an extremely good time to start!
   

   
   

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