I am a spanish player of CIV. I've been playing since civ I, and have played and won on the highest levels of dificult in the game. Lots of hours, thousand of games, more than any other game. And what do I get in the new edition? That CIVs that had supported the "new world" like "vikings", spanish, portuguese for example are forgotten... The empire that Felipe II (Phillip II) took from Carlos I has been the greatest and largest empire ever... the empire that Manuel I and Joao II left one of the most important ever... and so on. And they are not present in the game...
Nowadays Spain and Portugal are part of the UE, and represents a big part of the economy, I+D, turism, and culture of the world... I can't believe we are so unworthy in this edition. And so on I have decided not to buy this release, and in fact I hope that at least all the aggrieved people follow my example.
It's so funny that france (with 3 important leaders), Germany, England and other european appear like great people and africans, asians and even more latin americans do not appear at all.
I'm so dissapointed...