I tried to pick the most basic game settings for this sample. With that said, let's dive into a sample game of Civ5. The rest of the review will make a whole lot more sense afterwards, and I've written the review with the intention that the reader knows Civ5's mechanics very well. For the vast majority of people who are not crushing their way regularly through Deity games, I'd encourage you to take a look at this sample game first.
#SHOSHONE CIV 5 FREE#
Feel free to skip ahead to the review if desired.
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If you've been playing Civ5 at a high level, then most of this will be familiar to you already. Civ5's gameplay in this final patched form has changed drastically from the early release versions, and it's important to establish what a normal game will look like before getting into a discussion of the gameplay mechanics. But before I can write a review of Brave New World, I need to outline what a sample game of Civ5 looks like when played at high difficulty by someone who (more or less) knows what they're doing. I felt like I had enough experience to do a fair writeup here on my website. I didn't get through hundreds of hours, but I did get through several dozen, enough to get a good feel for things, although true Civ5 experts will surely note many mistakes that I made. During the summer months of 2014, I had the chance to experiment a bit with the expansion and test out the gameplay.
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That would be fairly painless even if I ended up hating the expansion. I bought Brave New World (BNW) for $7.50 when it was on a Steam sale at 75% off the normal price.
#SHOSHONE CIV 5 PATCH#
(The patch also seems to have broken Civ5 Multiplayer yet again, but that's a completely separate issue.) Anyway, I'm not going back and making changes to the writing at this point, just bear in mind that there was one more minor patch released after I put this together. The most anti-fun way possible of making this happen. It forces players to take the worst Tradition policy first in order to get to the useful stuff later. Even though Tradition deserved to be nerfed, I hate the way that this one was implemented.
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The main change was to nerf the Tradition policy tree by making Oligarchy a prerequisite for Legalism. Now that the patching process for Civ5 has been completed and the second expansion (Brave New World) has been out in a stable form for well over a year, the game is in a position where I can go back and do a final evaluation without having to worry about further changes.ĮDIT: Of course, after waiting months and months to do this sample game and review, naturally a new Civ5 patch came out two days after I finished writing. Although I didn't play the game myself, I kept an eye on the Civ5 community over the years, and I always intended to write about the game's expansions if and when they were created. I'm somewhat infamous in the Civilization community for writing some critical reviews of Civ5 in the first few months after release, and dubbing it a bad sequel to Civ4. Over the past couple of years, one of the most common questions that people have asked me goes like this: "What do you think about the expansions to Civ5?" Or it's often phrased instead as "Civ5 was in really rough shape when it first came out, but with all of the later patches and expansions, it's gotten so much better! You should go back and play it again." These are natural questions to ask. Brave New World: The Sample Game (Part One)