YES it is civ, YES it is still a good game, but...... They have made it too difficult with way to much options. I really miss the simplicity of the first civs. The tech tree is split into tech and civics. Also builders can't build roads (traders form them), WHY!? People used to build roads since the wheel and before. There are no simple overviews like wonders or richest civ. You do not have a city view and worse... for some reason wonders like the Eiffel tower are build outside the city and consume a valuable tile, WHY? Then finally, if you have advanced far enough you can build railroads yourself, but on some tile pieces of rail are placed around improvements so The tracks do not form a straight line from city to city, it looks a mess so again, WHY? When you found new city's far from your capital you have a risk it converts or becomes independant. Yes you can also manage that with the new governor feature and so on and so on but the point is... you just can't play a nice Civ game anymore. This game takes ages to play. So lose your job, get, a university degree and a pair of reading glasses to study al the rules and civilopedia. On top of that, it seems that Firaxis is after your pesonal data.

So... If you wanna play Civ just buy Civ 5, the complete edition. It is also not an easy game to master, also takes a lot of time but it is just much more fun than this game.

YES it is civ, YES it is still a good game, but...... They have made it too difficult with way to much options. I really miss the simplicity of the first civs. The tech tree is split into tech and civics. Also builders can't build roads (traders form them), WHY!? People used to build roads since the wheel and before. There are no simple overviews like wonders or richest civ. You do not have a city view and worse... for some reason wonders like the Eiffel tower are build outside the city and consume a valuable tile, WHY? Then finally, if you have advanced far enough you can build railroads yourself, but on some tile pieces of rail are placed around improvements so The tracks do not form a straight line from city to city, it looks a mess so again, WHY? When you found new city's far from your capital you have a risk it converts or becomes independant. Yes you can also manage that with the new governor feature and so on and so on but the point is... you just can't play a nice Civ game anymore. This game takes ages to play. So lose your job, get, a university degree and a pair of reading glasses to study al the rules and civilopedia. On top of that, it seems that Firaxis is after your pesonal data. So... If you wanna play Civ just buy Civ 5, the complete edition. It is also not an easy game to master, also takes a lot of time but it is just much more fun than this game.