Oh, and guess how hard itll be to take that lone capital once the 30 turns are over.

What will your civilization stand for Civilization V trailer Advertisement: Civilization is a popular 4X Long Runner game series.

The original game was developed in 1991 by Sid Meier, and there have been five direct sequels as of October 21, 2016, numerous expansion packs, and many spin-offs ( Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri, Colonization, Civilization: Call to Power, Civilization: Beyond Earth ), as well as the much simplified Civilization Revolution for home consoles, the Nintendo DS and iPhone, Civ World for Facebook, and the MMO Civilization Online.

The game was originally inspired by a Board Game, and has since spawned two others.

Many polls and lists of the best computer games ever developed have, at various times, listed several of the games in the series, often at 1.

The general concept is that the player controls a civilization from the stone age through the present day into the space age.

The first installments gave you two ways to win: conquering everyone, or sending a colony to Alpha Centauri.

Later games added more win conditions: get elected leader of the world by the United Nations, controlling a dominant chunk of the planet (which kind of renders obsolete the conquer everyone goal, which is probably why it was removed again later), convert everyone to your religion, or create a culture so influential that it engulfs everyone elses.

Advertisement: All aspects of the civilization are under the control of the player, including exploration, technological advancement, expansion, material production, culture, religion, military development and deployment, foreign negotiations, and trade.

The world was viewed from a 34 perspective until IV let you zoom inout and move the camera around, and took place on square-shaped tiles until V moved to hex.

The games open-ended play, and the multiple settings (involving world size, terrain, opposing civilizations, multiple victory scenarios, game play speed and difficulty) mean that every game can be different from the previous one.

It is (in)famous for leading to gameplay sessions that extend well past the players original self-imposed deadline, so much so that a joke Civilization Anonymous website was made.

Advertisement: Baba Yetu (Our Father in Swahili), the menu music from Civilization IV, note Technically, the re-arrangement of the piece for the album Calling All Dawns.

Not to be confused with the 1916 silent film with the same title or the noted 1969 BBC documentary about art history.

Achievement Mockery: Some of V s achievements are less than complimentary, including He threw a car at my head for having to buy back one of your cities from barbarian conquerors, and Seriously for repeatedly failing to construct Wonders.

Adventure Archaeologist: In Brave New World, both the archaeologist icon and a specific achievement are Shout Outs to the Adventure Archaeologist.

A.I. Breaker: The Great Wall Wonder in Revolution 2 completely destroys them.

The Great Wall, however, forces all civilizations to be at peace with you, and to offer peace if theyre at war.

The way it breaks them is that rather than realize they cant fight you, they think theyre in those few turns before they declare war again rather than trying anything else, and indeed, the diplomacy menu for other civs pops up a lot and has the civs youre at peace with offer peace and do nothing else on a regular basis like they would if theyd be allowed to declare war (though without trying to coerce your much stronger civ).

Likewise, in the same game, war utterly breaks the AIs competence.

Every single civ is supposed to prioritize war with you, and are very eager to blow all their resources on it, leaving very little for development beyond whats required to advance.

Conversely, if the AI is left to their own devices and cant discover you, theyre scarily competent at using their resources effectively, to the point where they can complete the space shuttle well before the 1940s.

As a comparison, theres an achievement for completing it before a man was put on the moon in real life, over 20 years later.

Aint Too Proud to Beg: In V, leaders that are losing a war tend to offer peace agreements in exchange for every city but their capital, all their resources for 30 turns, all their income for 30 turns, their entire treasury, and their wives and daughters as your concubines (well, OK, not that last one).

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