6 people found this review helpful

Not Recommended 14.7 hrs on record

Game overall feels like a downgrade from Civ 5 (which felt like a downgrade from the high point of the series, Civ4: Beyond the Sword).



As ever, the AI has no idea how to wage war with one unit per tile and all it takes is a few units of archers smartly managed on the player's part to defeat entire armored divisions in a consistent manner, but if you're reading this review you've probably already seen the common complaints like that. Let me instead talk to you about why this feels like a downgrade from Civ5:



Units. You go from pikemen to armor divisions. Before I knew it, I was in the Atomic age and I still had muskeeters running around everywhere and those had JUST been upgraded from Roman Legions. Civ5 had problems, but it handled the evolution of your civilization very well and very thematically.



I can't recommend this; maybe the expansions make it better, but the base game is worse in every way from Civ 5. Go buy that instead or, if you can handle the slightly out of date graphics, go play the far superior Civilization 4 with the Beyond the Sword expansion: the AI is actually capable of putting up a fight in that one.