#CIV V VS CIV IV ANDROID#
#CIV V VS CIV IV PC#

The most recent annoyance is a cease-fire with the Siamese nation that steadfastly refuses to expire, for either side, despite both parties having enough weaponry facing each other to provoke annihilation. V feels like a release that is rushed, and not exhaustively tested on enough hardware platforms.Trouble is, it now ruins the experience for me - each turn I am dreading another issue, rather than focussing on the game itself.

Whilst I can recall that CIV IV had a few issues on launch, I can't recall them being this severe, or wide-ranging. The bugs are frustrating enough to ruin the experience. The diplomacy feels shallow in V, like an afterthought, but I do like auto-expiration after thirty turns - it makes you really have to cultivate relationships so they will be renewed, or go to war of they won't, depending on how badly you needed them.

#CIV V VS CIV IV ANDROID#

Marvin the Android from the text-based Infocom HHGTG from twenty years ago had a better range of vocabulary and responses. Seriously Firaxis, if that is the best you can do, leave them out. The leaders screens are great design-wise, and in DX11 look brilliant, but the responses are laughable - if I hear 'would you be interested in a trade agreement with England' one more time, I will go to war. And that big red bombardment arrow is, well, odd - it looks out of place, I would have expected it to be the colour of your leader, but beyond showing you where you are going to hit (and you knew that anyway, as you just chose the tile), it seems to have little purpose. However, you can end up with grid-lock during large and busy campaigns, especially if there are multiple civs attacking, which can lead to such a severe lack of movement options you are foced to pull some units out. It forces you to think about terrain, and the strategy of 3 and 4 tile bombardment, whilst using faster forces in reserve. I actually like the zones of combat and one-unit-per-tile restrictions. My choices on the graphics menu are not always remembered on re-launch, but some are? This seems random, like some sort of annoying sub-game where you have to choose items in the correct sequence to get them to 'stick'? This kind of lack of attention to detail does point to a rushed release, and, more importantly, it is a lower standard than I would have expected from Firaxis and Sid. Some common-sense programming standards appears to be missing when I click edit, to change a city name, the focus is not on the name change box until I click it - and hitting return afterwards does nothing, I have to click on accept. The early choices in Tech are now massively simpified as religion doesn't play a part, and this seems to give less choice early on as to what direction to take. I must micro-manage my workers, or they do something silly. I have to choose certain policies to adopt in early gameplay, as the benefits of a few outweigh others in a developing civilisation. V seems to force certain styles of gameplay on me - in IV I seemed to have more variety on how I was able to play, however I find in V I have to build armies early, or the barbarians will become a major issue. But it doesn't go into enough detail for me, as a veteran player - I want more, not less. With V, its a similar experiance - the turn-by-turn element as presented is simple, elegant and most of the important information can be seen at a glance. However, clearly it was doing a great deal behind the scenes - and that was what I wanted to get at, and was frustrated I couldn't. V reminds me of a camera I was once bought - it had a 'auto' mode which did pretty much everything, and which didn't need any great experience with photography to use. I know I could have bought it on Steam, but old habits.Having played the new version for the past few days, I would make the following observations:

#CIV V VS CIV IV PC#

I can't remember the last time a PC release found me waiting in the damp chill of autumn air outside my local Game before opening, but CIV V managed it. Having played Civ I, II, III and IV constantly since they were first released, and through the various incarnations of Warlords, Beyond the Sword etc., but having never played CIV REV, I was looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to the release of CIV V.

Civ v vs civ iv