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    Sid Meier's Civilization V

    Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Sep 21, 2010

    Civilization V brings brand new gameplay elements to this beloved franchise, while maintaining the "just one more turn" mentality.

    elbrowno's Sid Meier's Civilization V (PC) review

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    Steam Gestapo


    I used to be a big fan of all of the Civ games.  Not anymore.  The illicit and misbegotten marriage with Steam has me feeling like the red headed step child.  Once it's running, all the other reviews are right, it's great.  But at a cost.  I don't want Steam.  Period.  I don't need someone looking over my shoulder, commandeering my network bandwidth,  bringing my boot-up to a screeching halt.  And what about the stupid start-up clip?  Can't we get past seeing that crap for the 40th time?  Yeah the game is great, but the packaging sucks!  Whoever decided to go with the whole Steam concept should be bitch slapped and fired.  When 2K comes out with a version that is without Steam, I'll come back.  For now, this piece of crap is swimming with the fishes.
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      Own The World, Lose Your Time 0

      Sid Meier's Civilization V(PC) by amazingshake on September 25, 2010

        Back in the late 1990s, my parents bought me a pretty old Mac from a friend my mother worked with. On this computer was Civilization II, thrown in with a bunch of other games I spent my late Middle School to High School years playing. Little did I know this was the beginning of an obsession that would last over 3 more games and 10 more years of my life. I had no idea what I was doing, but I had many a late night trying to slowly take over the world. So as you would probably expect, this review...

      12 out of 12 found this review helpful.

      A review for Civ-fans 0

      Sid Meier's Civilization V(PC) by gre on September 24, 2010

      It started with me skipping lunch to play Civ 1 in the computer lab in high school, and it led to spreadsheets calculating tile yields and worker moves to maximize the first 100 turns of Civ 3 games and countless big fat crosses scrawled on the back of slips of paper to figure out how many farms I needed to build to work all of a cities tiles plus specialists in Civilization 4.  So you could say that I'm an experience civilization player. If you're a fan too, then you are probably already playin...

      15 out of 16 found this review helpful.
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