Oh yeah!!
Greg thanks for all the patience of getting complained, and thanks to devs to already great game thats gonna get even better!
I'm so thankful to Greg that this info wasn't released earlier, imagine if they had said, like, months ago that Spring 2012 will see a new KICK ASS expansion. The waiting would have driven me crazy!
Now we need to wait probably to may, maximum. Sweet!
Some random notes of mine:
* No spies running around map like ninjas, great! I hated that stuff in Civ IV
and gotta love this quote from the IGN preview about some of the espionage stuff:
" If you learn that France is going to invade Spain, you can blow the whistle and give Spain a heads-up, which will have serious diplomatic consequences. "
* Customized religions, Social Policy style. Love it!
* ZOUNDS of new units and Civs. I mean... I would have expected maximum of two new Civs, but nine!!
* Machinegun! Early tank! Biplanes!! I think WW1 was such a revolution in war, nationalism and destruction of many empires of old. Here it gets the best treatment than in any civ.
* Personally I hope to get another "modern" Civ like Netherlands, fingers crossed for Austria or Portugal. Polish fans have been craving for Poland so that's maybe possible too.
* More complex system for getting City-states to your side... and sabotaging others' attemps!
* Diplomacy influenced by religions in early eras, ideologies in later eras.
It's like Firaxis and 2k steal our dreams while we sleep and then implement them into the game!
* I hope the new privateed unit works under no country's flag, so you can harrass your opponents incognito
And one of the biggest things for me:
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Some of the original civilization abilities are also being tweaked to accommodate the changes coming in Gods and Kings.