They're well animated and bursting with personality. The art has veered back towards a less realistic style, shifting into something more of a caricature which really does shine for world leaders like Queen Victoria and Gandhi. The journey along the way is procedural thanks to randomly generated maps and unpredictable AI, with different civs taking different approaches to the world around them and focusing their empires on different things.Īs a vastly simplified celebration of broader human history civ has always worked well, and that's true as ever here. The concept is still the same, of course: You pick a famous world civilization and one of their most iconic leaders and guide them through hours of turn-based evolution, taking them from warriors with clubs and discovering basic concepts like the wheel and farming through to bomber jets and nuclear fission. 'Civ 6 is a smart game that builds on previous concepts for the series to improve them in almost every way.' Civ 6 is a smart game that builds on previous concepts for the series to improve them in almost every way. I feel like it's too early to say if it's truly better than the masterpiece that is Civ 4, since that game had nearly 100 hours to dig itself into my brain - but I'm feeling pretty good about it. Here comes Civilization 6 to destroy my free time, and it's incredible. Had the Firaxis mojo transferred over to the excellent XCOM series? It got better with its expansion, though Civ 5's initial struggles and the lukewarm quality of Civilization: Beyond Earth had me excited and worried in equal measure when Civilization 6 was announced.

Civilization 5 wasn't a bad game, but it certainly failed to live up to the incredible reputation and bar of quality set by Civilization 4.

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