German PC Gamer Review (a little Help needed)

[bite]

German PC Gamer has released a review of Civ 5. Unfortunately of my many skills, German is not one of them (well polite German), and bablefish is well less than helpful, I was wondering if their are and Civ Fanatics out there that could translate it for me.

Especially this part:

Dazu müssen Sie in Wirtschaft, Forschung, Handel und Diplomatie erfolgreich sein und sich Spielrunde um Spielrunde die grafisch deutlich aufgepeppte Welt unter den Nagel reißen. Im Aufbaupart stellen Sie Ihrer Bevölkerung in den Städten besondere Gebäude vor die Nase und nutzen die Geländefelder vor den Toren der Stadt, um wirtschaftlich tätig zu werden. Besonders lukrativ sind Felder, die über besondere Ressourcen wie etwa Pferde oder Erz verfügen.

 

[ori]

For this you have to be succesful in ecomomy, science, trade and diplomacy and and conquer the graphically much enhanced world turn by turn. During the building part you build specific buildings for your population and utilize the terrain around your city in order to build an economy. Plots with special resources like horses or ore are especially lucrative.

quick and dirty translation

Edit:
now for the preview (not much and I doubt anything new):
Leaders have flavors
George Washington will focus on science
Queen Elizabeth will focus on navy
Game covers 5000 years (if true we won't start in 4000 BC anymore...)
There will be city states and peaceful relations with them will be more profitable than conquering them.
There will be a world builder and a mod browser.
12 screenshots but most or all of them old.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

I'm not very good at German either, so I'll leave it to some other to translate, but it seems that Washington will rely on research just like Elizabeth favors naval power. He also mentions flanking maneuvers.

 

[Mef]

There's nothing really new in this preview, the only thing I haven't read anywhere before is that Washington tends to focus on research.

Dazu müssen [...]

This part explains the general concept of the game.

 

[Civinator]

German PC Gamer has released a review of Civ 5. Unfortunately of my many skills, German is not one of them (well polite German), and bablefish is well less than helpful, I was wondering if their are and Civ Fanatics out there that could translate it for me.

Especially this part:

That part is only a description of elements common to all games of the civ series, so trivial that I didn´t hint to that article. There is nothing new in it.

 

[bite]

Thanks guys, in Bablefish one of the sections is translated as

In the structure part you place special buildings to your population in the cities before the nose and use the area fields before the gates of the city, in order to become economically active

So i just wanted to make sure that was not anything new when translated properly

 

[Thormodr]

5000 years? So they finally changed the starting date.

Hmmm...maybe they'll start in 2500 BC and go to 2500 AD

Likely it will be 3000 BC to 2000 AD though.

 

[Chalks]

Ending at 2000AD would seem a bit odd. Perhaps 2100 or something, and they're just rounding down to 5k years.

 

[Ahriman]

George Washington will focus on science

This just seems *weird*.

18th century US was not exactly a hub of innovation. Late 19th century, sure, but before that most of the innovation was happening in Europe.

Yeah, Washington himself was a little into new agricultural methods, but he was hardly an inventor. Even Jefferson outclasses him there.

So it seems that they're abstracting the Leader principles away from anything to do with that leader, and really just making them faction bonuses tacked on to whatever leader they happened to pick.

Which is ok with me, I never really care that much about the particular leaders.

 

[The_J]

That part is only a description of elements common to all games of the civ series, so trivial that I didn´t hint to that article. There is nothing new in it.

right.
I've just mentioned the article in the german forum a half hour ago, because the german press is at the moment incredible slow (eh, only 1 article from the GDC, and that was not even a game magazin? Press fail!), and some posters just don't want to read english articles.
But besides that, there's no reason to read this article.

 

[snipperrabbit!!]

there is something on build.de too !

 

[ori]

yeah its here

nothing really new except maybe that they hint at automatic unit upgrades - though the way its written includes a wrong description of how upgrading was (or was not) possible in previous Civ games - so I don't know if they know what they are talking about.

 

[The_J]

The automatic upgrade was also mentioned in the magazin article.
The description itself is somehow not very precise, but it makes sense together with the other changes (like no tech trading).

 

[Shurdus]

5000 years? So they finally changed the starting date.

Hmmm...maybe they'll start in 2500 BC and go to 2500 AD

Likely it will be 3000 BC to 2000 AD though.

There is a picture flying around on these boards where there is a game running in the background. The monitor there clearly shows turn 1 being 4000 BC. The person who posted about the game spanning 5 000 years is probably just very, very bad in math...

 

[PieceOfMind]

bite,
Is it not true that this is a preview? Not a review?

Totally agree with Shurdus by the way. 5000 years is more than likely a mistake, probably made by someone who's a bit giddy after seeing Civ5 in the flesh.

 

[civ_king]

maybe a typo, 5 is next to 6 after all

 

[Ahriman]

Or perhaps they decided to stop the game in 1000AD. None of that "modern" rubbish needed.

 

[timtofly]

This just seems *weird*.

18th century US was not exactly a hub of innovation. Late 19th century, sure, but before that most of the innovation was happening in Europe.

Yeah, Washington himself was a little into new agricultural methods, but he was hardly an inventor. Even Jefferson outclasses him there.

So it seems that they're abstracting the Leader principles away from anything to do with that leader, and really just making them faction bonuses tacked on to whatever leader they happened to pick.

Which is ok with me, I never really care that much about the particular leaders.

Maybe Jefferson is replacing Washington

 

[Ahriman]

Maybe Jefferson is replacing Washington

No, Washington is a confirmed leader.

 

[bonafide11]

I just think the bonuses are more Civ focused than leader focused. The leader is just a figurehead.