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Civilization V is a turn based strategy game that was created by Sid Meier. The
game was developed by Firaxis games and it was published by 2K games and
Aspyr and it was distributed by Take-Two interactive. The game is a turn based
game were the player or the computer will take turns moving their or managing
their units. When the turn ends it will be another players turn. Unlike in the
pervious civilization games, Civilization V uses hexagon tiles instead of square
tiles, they will not be able to stack units, There also new city states which is the AI
but is not trying to compete the game but instead will support the player who has
helped them the most by giving them units, helping them in wars, etc. In
Civilization V the player will discover new technologies to help his/her civilization
advance to the next era. When the game starts all players will start in the Ancient
area were they will start with warriors and as the game progresses they will
slowly advance to the next era where they will get swords man and eventually
will get to the modern era where they will get modern infantry units. There are
different types of scenarios in Civilization five each one is different. One of them
is a steampunk setting while another is the American Civil war setting. In the
original game there were eighteen civilizations but a lot of DLCs were released
which added more Civilizations so currently there are now Forty three
civilizations within the game. Civilization 5 released two major DLCs. One was
called Civilization 5 Gods and kings which added a smarter AI mechanic, a new
faith system in which players can choose any religion to be a part of their
civilization, 2 new eras players can advance into and nine new Civilizations likes
the Celts (Ireland, Scoutland and wales combind into one Civilization). The
second major DLC is called brave new worlds. Brave New worlds adds nine
Civilizations, A new trade route system were you can earn money by trading
between players. There are different five different ways to win in Civilization five.
The first victory is the domination victory which is when you conquer all your
opponents capitals cities while holding your original capitol. You dont have to
destroy your opponents Civilization but just take their capitol city. The second
victory is a science victory in which you must discover all technologies then build
an Apollo program to build a space ship then launch it to Alpha Centauri.
Launching your spaceship doesnt win the game but when your spaceship
reaches the planet Alpha Centaru then you will win the game but it will take a few
turns for your spaceship to reach their. The third victory is a Cultural victory. The
original game cultural victory and the Brave new worlds cultural victory are
different to each orther. In the original game the player must fill out all social
polices and build the Utopia project to win the game while in brave new worlds
the player must influence all the other civilizations with his culture to win the
game. The fourth victory condition is the diplomatic victory in which the player
must vote for a world leader and the player who has the most votes becomes the
world leader. The fifth and final victory condition is the time victory. The player

with the highest score wins the time victory. The timers in 2050 AD which is
basically 500 turns. Civilization V has received a lot of positive reviews mostly
8/10

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