An Early Look At Civilization V

c0mpliant writes "IGN and Gamespot have each released a preview of the recently announced and eagerly awaited Civilization V. Apart from the obvious new hexagon shape of tiles and improved graphics, the articles go on to outline some of the major changes in the game, such as updated AI, new 'flavors' to world leaders, and a potentially game-changing, one-unit-per-tile system. No more will the stack of doom come to your city's doorsteps. Some features which will not be returning are religion and espionage. The removal of these two have sparked a frenzy of discussion on fan-related forums."

Obligatory atheist flamebait

[aaron alderman]

I'm glad they got rid of religion. Hopefully we can get rid of it in this world too.

Re: the "who do your respect poll"

[Inda]

We'll save you a seat, don't worry. In fact, you can sit next to me, big boy.

Re:New AI

[hotdiggity]

I love diplomacy but it sucks when you know the AI is going to cheat. I hope Civ V will finally have an AI that doesn't cheat.

You want nations that don't cheat on diplomacy?

If we're going to abandon reality, why don't we just add wizard units and inter-dimensional portals too?

Missing civ leaders... where is the great dictator

[Anonymous Coward]

Through out the series they have been missing one great leader, they've had the likes of Stalin, Caesar and Napoleon, but why have the left out the great dictator? Adenoid Hynkel the dictator of Tomania.

Re:Obligatory atheist flamebait

[pagaboy]

If you believe it enough, I'm sure it'll happen.

Re:Obligatory atheist flamebait

[sackvillian]

My bet is the first mod adds it back in.

Voltaire would think so; since God does not exist, it will be necessary to invent him

Re:Obligatory atheist flamebait

[delinear]

They prefer to think of it as intelligently designing the mod.

Re:But is it compatible

[Anonymous Coward]

So long as you don't spill it on the keyboard in between turns, you should be fine.

Re:Swell...

[archangel9]

time to patch the household to Spousal Unit 2.1

Re:Swell...

[Anonymous Coward]

When my wife read about Civ IV, she informed me that I would not be buying it.

Re:New AI

[T.E.D.]

If we're going to abandon reality, why don't we just add wizard units and inter-dimensional portals too?

I'm with hotdiggity. When is the sequel to Master of Magic comming out?

Re:Wesnoth clone

[Anonymous Coward]

Ranged attacks can only hit adjacent units in Wesnoth. But given that you must have played the game quite a bit to come up with that clever, astute remark, I'm sure you knew that already.

Re:Swell...

[MadKeithV]

My girlfriend got me CivIV and later Beyond The Sword as gifts. She's still proud of picking them out, even after I've spent many a night staying up real late playing those games. I'll put Civ 5 on my birthday list for this year :)

Damn you, Slashdot

[deniable]

I just put in the Civ4 disk and lost three hours.

Re:Obligatory atheist flamebait

[thesandtiger]

I thought the religious and corporate aspects of Civ IV were somewhat interesting, but other than just rushing to found a religion so that I could culture bomb my nearby opponents I didn't really care much for it as a gameplay mechanic.

What I did love about it was when Suleiman threatened to war if my Islamic civilization did not convert to Judaism, or when Ghandi insisted that I renounce Hinduism, or Stalin suggesting that I should convert to Buddhism if I didn't want him to slaughter everyone in my empire.

Re:I'm already excited

[magarity]

religious people in the far flung future, seriously?
Yeah, it's not like they ever put religion in sci-fi, young padawan
 
GP did say *future*. Star Wars was a long time ago.

Re:Obligatory atheist flamebait

[Ihmhi]

Yeah, religion has had an impact on civilization. Now I have two options for driving my enemies back to the stone age: nukes, and religion!