![]() I don't believe I've ever laughed harder: Plus it had Spock pretending to be a satellite. From the first strains of Lion King music to the first Nimoyian utterance, it was like a glass of cool water in the face on a boiling hot day. The sense of freshness, of modernity, of opulence and of someone having really taken the time to reinvent a decade-old game for a new audience was unbelievable. It has, however, aged in terms of interface - it's just a little too cluttered and Windows 95y by 2010 standards now. I didn't experience the invigorating rush I did the first time I ever fired up Civ IV.Ĭiv IV hasn't particularly aged graphically, which is one reason why Civ V might be a harder sell than usual. My standard argument, apart from panicking that someone might ask me to explain what I mean by 'art deco', is that this early build of Civ V is genuinely, definitely lovely and, as per series' tradition, I happily swam in its slow-moving river for hour after hour. There are major changes to all kinds of elements, but there's no way you'd ever mistake if for anything other than a Civ game. I didn't find it jarring or a problem, but I appreciate I am not as resolute on game-change as some of this wonderful series' long-term fans. ![]() You will not be thinking "aaargh hexes hexes it's all hexes." It feels natural, and you will adapt almost immediately. Civ V is Civ: it's not some strange and super-hardcore grand-strategy rethink of the series. Honestly, although it's primarily a change in the angles units can attack from, you don't need to see them, most people won't bother with the outlines, and I left them on for about five minutes before realising they didn't make a profound amount of difference to how I played the game, bar making a very pretty world look over-cluttered. As in, the hex outline isn't visible, even though the game always remains laid-out in hexes. Yes, Civ 5 includes hexes - but they're turned off by default. Put this in your bloody pipe and smoke it, because if I read one more "hex appeal" gag I'm going to storm off the internet in a huff. Then they ask me about hexagons, and I punch them in the teeth. ![]() "The menus are Art Deco," I say whenever anyone asks me what the game is like. I recognised a thing that I know! I can sound very vaguely learned! So has it been with Civilization V, a beta build of which I've cuddled up to over the last few weeks. My own approach to design in any regard doesn't go any further than "make most of the colours the same." So when I see something that's Art Deco, I become slightly excited. 'Art Deco' is basically the only school of design I'm at all familiar with. ![]()
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