GameSpot E3 First Look...13 Screen Shots...

I remind the comments of someone a few months ago about the screen, as someone said before, you can zoom in and out, and the firs and second screens seems to be the "near" focus and the others surely are the "long distance" focus. If this is right it´s fabulous!! It´s funny to be taoist and islamist... it´s looks like very detailed. I hope that you can micromanage so much as we do in CIV III. The "villages" i suppose is the way to show that this square is being used by your people, more realist I suppose
¿What do you think of it?
 
There looks to be many irregular borders in these shots, perhaps there are ways to expand borders not only from cities? Perhaps some terrain improvements do this.
 
A lot less information though.

Anyone got any idea what that cycle might mean next to the city name? To the left of the religion symbol (and not the capital star).

And what are the 'specialists' that give you 'great leader points'?

Overall I'm excited. Nothing's been a turn-off yet.
 
Well, as far as graphics go, I am more than satisfied.
 
This is the best of cIV that I hav seen to date. But didnt they leave out some infomation in the interfrace - I dont see any tech icons.

Aks K
 
The screenies look great i cant wait until we get to try civ IV ourselves. I dont know why everybodys complaining about unit size. I mean, look at the size of the units in civ III. Everything looks great.
 
judaism without a jewish nation is quite interesting. judaism with a jewish nation would on the other hand be quite special too...
 
Very good screenshots! I mostly like the new roads.
In pic #8, Hastings and Cherokee both are Islamic, but the symbol at Hastings is a moon with a star, while Cherokee's is a moon with a dot. Possibly Hastings is a holy city?
 
I hope the units will be more visible, now the units sink away in the background.
I more liked 1 big unit as in civ3.
 
yeah i'd like a hebrew nation (altho i can see the caution by developers), but i'm glad at least judaism is up there.
 
My only concern is the very RTS-like bottom bar in a few of the screen shots. I like RTS games, but Civ isn't one. I much prefer the sidebar from Civ2 or the little corner box from Civ3. The huge bottom bar looks like it wastes a lot of valuable screen real estate.
 
well a lot of the buttons were present in civ3 - remember the little circles in the middle of the screen - they just matted it on a control panel instead.
 
judaism has had profound influences around the world - not only is it considered the base for christianity and islam (as both draw heavy influence from judaism), but the faith and its people has heavily impacted world events for the past few millenia as well as the entire middle east region (and the recent world politics). judaism def. shud be up there among the religions.
 
sepamu92 said:
Very good screenshots! I mostly like the new roads.
In pic #8, Hastings and Cherokee both are Islamic, but the symbol at Hastings is a moon with a star, while Cherokee's is a moon with a dot. Possibly Hastings is a holy city?
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I definitely think so. See this shot (of the Jewish Mali :D ): The capital (Timbuktu) has the same star on its Jewish symbol. A capital would be a likely holy city.

I'm very glad about Firaxis including the Mali. It was the greatest sub-Saharan empire ever during the European Middle age.

- Lurker ogmoir
 
I still do not think that the new shots are elegant nor appealing. Yes, they do indeed look better, but:

- the units occupy too much space as now we have multiples of each and while they are too big in a close zoom - they are too small in a zoomed-out mode;

- the culture borders are extremely hard to see, especially in wooden terrain and should be revamped;

- the map is indeed boxy and the improvements are a little hard to spot;

- the CITIES are barely identifiable because of the clutter of units, improvements, etc;

- there is way too much going on next to the city name: size, religion, some sort of yellow arrow, some bars below, etc; the less the better;

I think they need to do something with these graphics for in my humble opinion (my specialty is design for marketing campaigns) they lack a unified and finished look. Apart they look good - together they are too hard to sort out. CivIII still looks better in its 2D mode.

StillNotConvinced
 
That's the traditional grid view I wanted to see. I think this is the zoom level I'm going to play at the most. Still looks kinda cluttered though. I agree with Yale about the cultural borders especially when they go through jungles
 
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