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Sid Meier's Civilization V
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Civilization V brings brand new gameplay elements to this beloved franchise, while maintaining the "just one more turn" mentality.
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"Firaxis offers a hardcore turn-based strategy experience that nearly anyone can approach, without sacrificing any of its wildly addictive appeal."
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A Fantastic Continuation of the Civilization Series

On the off-chance you’ve not encountered it before, Sid Meier’s Civilization is a series of turn-based strategy games which task you with leading one of the great civilisations from human history, and… Read more

Civilization V: Gandhi is a Prick

Ah yes, the Civilization games. There mostly known for their complete addictiveness (I'm not sure that is a word) and that prominent issue of "just one more turn" Before long, it is 3 in the morning a… Read more

Sid Meier's Civilidon'thaveanymorefreetimebecauseofthisgame

The Civilization franchise has been a mainstay of PC gaming since I was a child. Even though I never tried a Civ game until Civilization 4, I always had a deep respect and fear of the series. So when… Read more

Small improvements make it the best in the series...

Civilization V is the fifth historical turned based strategy game in the Civilization series. Five years after the previous title, it seems that not much has changed. Civilization games have always be… Read more

civ 5

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Cue "Also Sprach Zarathustra"

Prior to Civilization V , I cannot remember the last time I sat down with a game for an entire Saturday morning… and subsequent afternoon. Civ V’s addictive time-draining nature is understandable when… Read more

Civ enters a Dark Age?

Here is a little disclaimer first. I have played Civ I,II,III extensively; skipped over IV but just bought it off of Steam to replace Civ V (from what I've heard it's currently the best Civ). Instead… Read more

Can you build a civilization that will stand the test of time?

Civilization V is an epic strategy experience that follows a lineage of games that hang delicately balanced between deep, hardcore gameplay and accessibility. Somehow, though, Civ 5 continues to refin… Read more

Taking a Step to the Right... and a Step Backward

In many ways, Civilization V is the best iteration of the Civilization series. In many other ways, it isn't. The Civilization series is a longstanding one, possessing an impressive pedigree of games.… Read more

Grew on me fast

I started out like most dedicated Civ 4 fans. Hating on this new edition of the game for the absence of my Byzantine civilization (which is expected; I know that they are at best an expansion pack fac… Read more

Civilization V: Review

With a franchise as revered and successful as Civilization, each release will evidently have very high expectations to live up to. After showing off all the new features and changes in the latest addi… Read more

World domination, brotha.

Part of me felt confused when I caught wind that Civilization 5 would present a more streamlined experience than in the past. I never thought that the original Civilization games were particularly com… Read more

Civ V from a Civ IV fan

Civilization V feels like Firaxis took a giant step back and decided to start designing Civilization from scratch. What they produced is a game that’s a lot more accessible to new and casual players,… Read more

Fuck Napoleon. Ghandi RULES.

I played this game for nearly 6 hours straight. Before this game, I'd never played a Civilization game before. I'm not even a big fan of RTS games either. This game is great. There are a few goofy thi… Read more

Civilization 5

I'm not a long time fan of the Civilization series. I've dabbled in them in the past but they never caught my interest for various reasons. However, after playing the demo which made me purchase the g… Read more

Steam Gestapo

I used to be a big fan of all of the Civ games. Not anymore. The illicit and misbegotten marriage with Steam has me feeling like the red headed step child. Once it's running, all the other reviews are… Read more

From the Civ Rev World

I have never played a full Civ game before Civ Rev. So the incredibly complex world that appeals to many Civ fans was not what drew me to give Civ 5 a go. It was the enjoyment of the "one more turn" a… Read more

Civ 5 first impresstions

Here is a list of things I have had to do to get Civ 5 to run. Install, and re-install the game Reinstall DirectX Reinstall Video Drivers Edit a .ini file - everything else was fine but this is a step… Read more

Own The World, Lose Your Time

Back in the late 1990s, my parents bought me a pretty old Mac from a friend my mother worked with. On this computer was Civilization II, thrown in with a bunch of other games I spent my late Middle Sc… Read more

Conquering the world, or, How I lost seven hours in a snap.

I'll be up front and say I'm not a "Civ-Fan." I've dabbled in the series off and on and even those were largely kept to the more recent sequels. Now it wasn't that I hated the series, it just never st… Read more

A review for Civ-fans

It started with me skipping lunch to play Civ 1 in the computer lab in high school, and it led to spreadsheets calculating tile yields and worker moves to maximize the first 100 turns of Civ 3 games a… Read more

The time killer is here.

The sheer amount of time you can invest in this game and still have a new experience dwarfs anything on the PC, including WoW. When you add in mods and customizing anything you want, well, it could be… Read more

Australia for the win!

As a long term fan of the original, I approached this with a sceptical heart. I had been burnt badly by Civ Rev and wondered if I was doomed to Dosbox and my original copy of Civ 1. But I was actually… Read more

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