Sporting a revamped combat system, Civilization V addressed – finally – the weak battle strategies of its predecessors.
Rather than allowing players to stack up entire armies and simply charge at enemy city walls, only one unit can occupy each tile on the map.
You can now fire from far with ranged units, while terrain plays a bigger role. Your soldiers can see through forests and hills but place them on high ground and they get attacking and defensive bonuses.
All of this means you have to plan your battles more conscientiously.
Also new is the concept of city states. You can choose to befriend cities like Singapore and Kuala Lumpur and receive gifts of ivory and incense, as well as help to score that decisive victory.
Of course, you can attack and plunder these cities instead.
There are no more square tiles, only hexagon ones, which makes it easier to figure out which adjacent tiles your units can move to.
Culture now plays a bigger role. Not only does it expand your nation’s borders, it also lets you impose social policies which comes with bonuses like increasing the speed at which your workers build farms and upping your production.
You play as the leader of one of 18 civilisations, from the ancient Aztec Montezuma to Greece’s Alexander the Great. Some leaders have been changed. Instead of Mao Zedong, you now play Empress Wu Zetian. Oda Nobunaga now leads samurai Japan instead of his ally Tokugawa Ieyasu. Each civilisation has specific strengths and special units.
After weeks of battling Zergs in outer space in Starcraft 2, it was a pleasant change to return to civilisation. With improved graphics and intriguing gameplay changes, Civ 5 looks set to conquer the hearts and minds of PC warlords around the world.
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So,how is starcraft 2 treating everybody now thats is released ?