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OK, got the full version from my g-friend as a gift yesterday... Now we are gonna see how this game is really like...

Hey Frogboy, thanks for trying. There are just not that many people who even attempt to create a strategy games these days - mostly because it is way easier to find 100 good artists for a shooter than a single analyst that can construct viable gamplay rules for a strategy game. Too bad that it like that, its just that Big Pharma and Big Med pay so darn well for good software analysts/architects that nobody with a right mind would want to work for a company where a 7 figures

"It was also good for nearly every high rated and successful strategy game in existence." Uhm... Yes and no. Hex strategy games are inherently different then 4X empire building games. In most empire building games battles are tactical and battle groups / armies have many, many units in them. In hex strategies the size of the map is adjusted to the needs of a particular battle and size of units used. A single token in

"CAN YOU COMMAND WITHOUT A...CENTRAL COMMAND? The economy is nose-diving into the red and you want to reduce the percentage going into research for a while? The fickle people of your civilization are unhappy and you want to placate them by increasing their entertainment allocation? You have discovered conscription and you want to upgrade all your musketeers into recruits? Well, TOUGH LUCK! There is not central command screen to do so. Only advisers that you have to thank f

Most reviews on Amazon UK are actually negative. Here is one that puts in a much nicer form what I am thinking but maybe expressed it more aggressively: The working relationship between a game designer and his publisher is never a simple one. So I would not know where exactly to place the blame, Sid Meyer or 2K GAMES. But in the end, it does not matter. Because it is simple sad to see a great gaming franchise came to this. THIS IS NOT A CIVILIZATION GAME <br

"I love it when people talk about how they played the demo and then proceed to break everything down like they've been playing the game for months. Saying things like "So Civilization V goes like this-" after having played the demo for awhile is pretty silly." It is enough to give the "flavor" of the game - and I do not like it... I mean it is a cool 4X game in its own right, for me it is just not the "Civilization". The thing I liked about the original Civilization game and C

After having the Aztec go bloodthirsty and conquering 4 other civs on its continent I though I had lost for sure ... until I found I had 6 oil wells on my northern border - 50 years later I won via conquest with 4 turns remaining till 2050. go navy! Not to diminish your hard-won victory, but that kind of confirms my fear that luck in resource location can have a very significant impact on the outcome of the game. At least if the resources were visible

"1. You can set city to concentrate on growth, science money etc. and you also can manually assign population to work on specific hexes." Oh, brother... And as I explained it does not mean crap. When you have 1:1 population to hexes nothing changes no matter your assigment. In the old days you could use production to make money or money to make science... "2. Civ5 is more strategic than previous Civilizations - there was nothing strategic about combat in them - in Civ1-4

[quote]Civ 5 is nothing like Revolution[/quote] Are you kidding me? This game is exactly like Revolutions. It is slightly more expanded, so OK, you can call it Revolutions 2, but the basic mechanics is all the same...

Because there are no economy-related decision in Civ 5. You have citizens - they work on tiles - tiles produce money. End of story. You need money passively, that is true, but you cannot use it actively for anything. You cannot say: I am going to focus on production, or I am going to focus on research. All that is passive and all it takes is just to have enough citizens to work enough tiles and you take what comes. You select focus, but you still have the same tiles with the same reso

To be perfectly honest I will buy Civ 5 eventually - as I said - I am a 4X maniac, but it can wait a year or two until it costs $19.99 at Walmart :) And I do not think anyone can accuse Elemental for lack of depth while comparing it to Civ 5. There are games out there that are immense by comparison, true, but we cannot say that about an XBox360 port with few extra features that Civ 5 is. For now if I want a fast-paced butt-kicking Civilization style with a single game lasting3-4

First of all I would like to say I am a HUGE maniac of 4X games and I played EVERYTHING that ever came out and I could find - including Stars!, Space Empires V and Pax Imperia: titles ranging from Civ1-4, Colonization 1&2, MoM, MasterOfOrion 1,2,3 (3 sucked), Alfa Centauri to Age of Wonders 1,2 and Lords of Magic are so obvious that not worth mentioning (yes that includes GalCiv series and SinsOfSE). I have not played the Elemental, because there is no demo. But I am done wit