Civilization V Review

Sid Meier's Civilization V, also commonly called just Civ V, is another genius turn based strategy game with Sid Meier's name on it. So good infact, that steam shows I've spent over 350 hours playing Civ V. It's a game that I would recommend to almost anyone.

It takes leaders and civilizations from a large span of time, and starts everyone one off in an ancient era. From there, you research technologies, progressing from age to age. You expand your borders, and settle new cities in foreign lands. You improve your land around you, increasing the yield from it. You create trade routes between other civilizations and city states, filling your coffers up with gold. You can create a big army and navy and take over the world.

Civ V is just a game that has endless playtime for me. With forty three civilizations to choose from, each with some unique units and building. You have 5 different victory types that you can shoot for to win the game. You could capture and control all of the civilization's capitals, you could achieve a scientific victory by researching all the late game technologies, producing the rocket components, assembling the rocket, and launching the rocket ship off to the nearest solar system. You can also achieve a culture victory by exposing your civilization's culture to every other civilization, and having your culture dominate over theirs. You could also achieve a diplomatic victory by achieving enough votes through the united nations meetings. Or you could just score enough points by your set time limit. Civ V just offers you plenty of reasons to replay again and again.

Additionally, there is a plethora of mods created for Civ V.  One of my favorite set of mods is called the Community Balance Mod. It completely changes many mechanics of the game, offering a whole new challenging experience. As the name suggests, it's a set of game changes that the community thought the game needed, and that the game developers never delivered. It gave new life to the game for me, and added countless more hours of gameplay for me to enjoy.

Overall, Civilization V is a amazing game. It offers what seems to be almost unlimited gameplay, and the community has developed even more through the wonderful workshop of mods.

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