Civ Fuehrer
Drifting through space, lost
Man, since my copy of Civ V will be coming from Amazon tomorrow or thursday, I went and downloaded the demo version. Now that the demo finished, I went back to RoM and missed Civ V almost immediately. I gotta admit although Civ V is more for the general masses that aren't familiar with it, some mechanics are 'dumbed down' but for the most part it's rather enchanting. The flowing graphics, the reorganized UI, the combat mechanics, hexagonal tiles and the knowledge that it's a blank slate that won't be slowed down by mods as easily as Civ IV was. I know I sound like I'm not telling anything new than what was in the video interviews, but playing it is a very different experience than just watching the gameplay videos.