Civilization
Turn-based 4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) strategy game series where players build a thriving civilization through ages of advancements.
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Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about Civilization, and it has gotten 118 likes
- Developed by Firaxis Games
- Proprietary and Commercial product.
- One time purchase (perpetual license)
- Average rating of 4.7
- 31 alternatives listed
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One of the best turn-based strategy games out there. You can easily spend all your day on it!
Now that I think about it... I don't know why I like it. I spend hours playing it and still come back for more. At least it patiently sits and waits if I leave it alone for awhile. Better than having a pet and I don't need to scoop anything.
Best game series in the history. Just one more turn ....
I love CIV V but I'm looking for an RTS alternative to it. A game that goes through all ages.
I've been playing a lot of Civilization V recently. Most of the glitches and performance problems from the earlier versions of the game seem to have been fixed. The game works best if you run it in DirectX 9 mode (it'll give you a choice when you start up the game launcher). However, in my personal experience, the game still lags like crazy once you approach turn 200. By the time I was on turn 250 or so, my older computer would often just freeze for 40-50 seconds between turns. Even my new computer has 10-20 second timeouts. And since my new computer is pretty awesome, I doubt it's a hardware problem. Either that, or Civilization V has the highest system requirements of any commercial PC game in the entire world.
I purchased the Aspyr version of Civilization V a few months back, and it runs much better than my old 2K version of the game. Why there are two different companies distributing separate versions of the same game, I have no idea. Anyways, Civilization V no longer freezes outright, so that problem is solved. Unfortunately, the game still gets really laggy in the later turns. Plus, when I'm playing the game in windowed mode on Mac OS X, the window is stuck in the first monitor; I can't move it to my second monitor, so OS X's dock and menu bar obstruct my view of the game.
tl;dr Everything works better, but it's still laggy. Support for dual-monitors on OS X sucks.
Reply written almost 10 years ago
I absolutely love civilization. I do have to question, though, why is this a listing for Civilization as a series but only talks about five? I love 5, but I also love 4 and 3. Should those be given separate listings?
Civilization V is really addictive, but unfortunately, the early versions of this game (a.k.a. the versions I played) were super glitchy. I don't know how many of the problems have been fixed since then. Hopefully, most of the bugs are no longer a problem, because they really ruin the gameplay.