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Civilization V is one of the most eagerly anticipated strategy games of all time. Ever since I last saw the title at E3 2010, I have been waiting for the moment to get my hands on the final version. That time has finally come and the only thing disappointing out Civilization V is the addicting gameplay that takes you in and never lets go. If you’re the kind of gamer that wants to cut to the chase and skipped reading a lengthy review, then save yourself some time, go out and buy civilization V, and you can thank me later. For the rest of you, I see you may need a little more convincing. I’ll need to elaborate on why this is one of the best games ever made. In years past getting your hands on a new video game meant waiting for a boxed copy to arrive. With the rise of digital services like steam and Direct2Drive, more and more companies are adopting these services to digitally deliver their titles to consumers. Civilization V is no exception to this. In fact, I expected the publisher to provide us with a review copy via a boxed disk copy. To my surprise, a steam voucher was given to me for the purposes of this review. I quickly copied and pasted the code into steam and eagerly awaited the download to finish. Little did I realize, but these few moments before the download completed or the last my body would see of rest, sleep, or social interaction with any other human for many–many days. As the title would suggest, Civilization V is the fifth installment of the grand civilization franchise. Created and conceived by the genius creator Sid Meier, civilization allows you to take control of one of the many world empires and create your own legacy for you and your people. Your choices are plentiful and you can be a vicious dictator, peaceful ruler, or a manipulative politician waiting for the right moment to strike. Of course, fans of the franchise are already familiar with this brief description and the title brings so much more to the table. In your quest for dominance, you begin with a single settler unit and a warrior unit. For newcomers to the series, Civilization V dozen excellent job of providing tutorial menus and pop-up messages to guide the player throughout the game. These are completely optional and can be turned off at any point–but are nice to have just in case you need a slight push in the right direction. The first was the player must make is to find a suitable location for their capital city. Normally any location nearby where you start is a good place to found that city. At this point the player must then begin to work on improvements to their city, build workers to improve the land, train additional soldiers for protection and to scout out the area, and select the technologies they wish to research. The first big difference players will see in Civilization V is the change from a square to a hexagonal system. Along with this change is the removal of multiple units per tile. This means that a player can only have a single unit on a tile at a time.

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