Story
- Follow through some preset historical campaigns
- Take control of a historical leader and create the iconic architectural and discoveries of that civilization
Mechanics
- Turn based strategy game
- Usually a single game can go for a few hours (can be modified though) due to how each research, creation or task assigned to a unit will take many moves. Good because not demanding and able to leave and come back without missing
- Combat has an excellent strategy to it with the bonuses modifying whether or not there will be a successful attack.
- Build up your civilization using the various perks and abilities of your particular civilization
- (Unless pre-modified) there are 4 ways to win: Military (Dominance), Science (Space race), Culture (Win the vote at United Nations) and Economic (purchasing the wonders)
- Use workers to cultivate the land in the city's territory, settlers to settle new cities and military units to attack and defend against barbarians and other civilizations
- Maintaining relationships with other cities to get bonuses and stop them from becoming and enemy and going to war. By building specific buildings, units, destroying other nations and gathering resources
- Some units have automated tasks which reduces the need to micro-manage
- Extremely deep - Comes with the "civlopedia" for the many different units
- Has an excellent help and recommendation system which is completely optional but will mostly lead you in the right direction
- 1 advisor per type of victory each with their own agenda but are very helpful
- Most external leaders make trading very painful by demanding a lot of you.
- Excellent match customizations options
Aesthetics
- Units have a nice animated cartoonist feel
- Very simple animation in fight with no blood or gore making it less violent and more strategic
- Able to switch a classic view for veteran players
- Nice UI elements that can be modified at will to suit the player's style
- Able to overlay information on to the game world
- Excellent notification system
- Good narration and historical accuracy and famous quotes for each upgrades.
Technology
- Able to scale well due to the simplistic nature of the graphics
- Does not require super graphics or speed due to the turn based nature.
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