Sid Meier's Civilization VI - PC

Full disclosure - I'm not really a gamer. However, have played every single one since its time of release, starting with the original DOS 1991 edition. It's my thing. Love to be able to play just a few turns if I want and stretch it our, or binge on a weekend when family has gone to bed.Successors within the series have all dealt with the share of changing manufacturers, game improvements, game setbacks, and even WTF (looking at you Beyond Earth). No, Civ VI is not without it's launch flaws - just like all major releases of any franchise game. However, the do not take away from the extremely satisfy gameplay experience:I'm running an older homemade rig: MSI gaming board; AMD FX 6300; Nvidia Geoforce GTX 960. Certainly not the most screaming system, but more than enough to run every setting on High with no lag and high frame rate. There is a benchmark test option in menu, in which computer plays itself to make sure it's set up correctly for you.Pro: Great graphics for this kind of game. Reflections, shadows, sunlight glare off of the water, waves, topography detail, even an option to allow game to track time of day and ambience accordingly. Best of any Civ game yet. One must dedicate districts next to cities form many improvements, which makes original city placement more important than ever before. Every city can't be an equal monster, so you have to pick and choose carefully.Pro: Satisfying game play with challenges even for long time veteran players. Changes to how Civics work, builder vs workers (huge improvement), Trade caravans build roads automatically as they travel a route for the first time.Pro: I bought physical disc from Amazon presale. Loaded very quickly from disk (yes - still requires Steam, but I'm not seeing any problems).Con: Even a veteran like me has been struggling on Prince level. I backed it down to Warlord and later even Chiefdom for my first game. It's a harder play, at least until you get used to it.Con: A/I would be one of biggest complaints. Not nuanced enough. Even when I do everything another Civ seemingly wants, they end up launching surprise wars for which I'm usually not ready. Really have to pay attention to their personalities and game engine desire to oppose your progress, so they throw things like this at you.Con: Effing Barbarians! New model sends out barbarian scouts, which upon finding your city race back to their hideout and spawn a non-stop army until camp is found and defeated. Barbarians can also immediately spawn several weapon characters beyond your own abilities. There's no option yet other than on/off for barbarians, so early in game dedicate heavily in scouts and find them before they find you. Kill their scouts before the return, and camp won't spawn (unless they've found another Civ).Pro/Con: Mod community will fix all of this in time with added nuance and options. That will make this a tremendous game instead of just a very good one. We just need to wait awhile for Mod community to start cranking out all the fun stuff we enjoyed applying to Civ 5.Conclusion: If you are a Civ series fan, then buy this without delay. You'll be very satisfied. There's no other title on the planet (turn based or otherwise) that is as satisfying to me as the feeling one gets from waging war, embracing pacifism and economics, or anything in between with this series. As an aside, Civ games are what always prompted me to buy or build new systems. I don't want to miss anything. As the requirements aren't that intensive, my older rig does just fine. However, have an older gaming laptop which always crashed CIV 5, so can't speak to how will the game will run on integrated graphics or mobile graphics cards."Yes honey, I'm coming up to bed now," ....just....one......more.....turn..... Hahah!

Edit 2016.11Mouse would not work because Steam settings setup configured my win 10 x64 computer incorrectly. No instructions or warnings, etc, but must be discovered by trial and error.The game itself is good but seems very biased in favor of peace, trade, and religion.Uses a ton of memory so on old, small computer, it might slow down a lot.Dramatic improvement over Civ V which was unusable because of Steam.Steam is crap. Civ installed and now app will not work at all.After one one hour working session, Mouse now does not work in Civ map screen. It is "there", that is, there is a movable intermittent mouse indicator (that looks like a mouse tip menu), but if "clicked" the screen goes black, and the mouse clicks do not engage with civ application functions. Mouse works fine in other apps if I alt tab. When I move the mouse outside of Civ, and alt tab into Civ, a correct mouse arrow "returns" and you get a single click before mouse inoperability returns. For example, impossible to "select" a Civ unit. Have closed and reopened the app 5 times, all with same result. Useless piece ofI have the latest video drivers installed on a Windows 10 x64 machine.Steam + Fraxus ==> incompetent software engineers.

I was hesitant to get the new civ game because I didn't really enjoy Civ V as much as previous iterations. However after watching the overwhelmingly positive reviews I decided to take a shot and get it. I am very glad I did.The Good: The choice of which civilization to play as feels important and distinct once again something I haven't really felt since Civ III. Unit selection is much improved over Civ IV, Civ V and religion has a purpose and is worth fighting for/against depending on your goals. Cities are no longer untouchable fortresses (unless you put the effort in to build them as such) and the presence of districts makes fighting for the city core much less important than previous games. Science and Culture each have their own tech tree now and I really like that your choices in that particular match determine how quickly you can research a given tech or civic. Game has wonderful (artsy) graphics and the fog of war represented as a paper map is much improved over the billowing white clouds of earlier Civ games. Diplomacy (one of things I actually dislike relative older versions) now has the AI's tell you why they are behaving the way they are which is nice. The inclusion of districts gives the game significant (optional) complexity so you are rewarded both for thinking things through when you design each city and for carefully selecting where to place them. Living near mountains is a good thing again instead of wasted tiles like in previous civ games. Roads being generated as a result of trade routes is not necessarily great but it is novel and so far I find it amusing to build my roads this way.The Bad: Really only two things. Unit selection appears to have been designed to intentionally annoy you if you have more than a few units to control and diplomacy sucks compared to previous games. A little more about the diplomacy: the AI's now tell you why they love or hate you which is about the best that can be said for the diplomacy section. I find that wars are far too heavily penalized relative to how civilizations have historically responded to what would be considered "warmongering" in the game. I also don't like that the AI's traits makes it much easier to manipulate them into feedback loops to either love or hate you. As an example, if you meet a civ and 1)send them a delegation, 2) make a trade that favors them, 3) declare friendship, 4) declare allies your differences no longer matter because the positives for these will outweigh anything I have tried of aside from open war. Sounds great right? However if you meet that civ and don't send the delegation there is a good chance the civ will not like you enough to accept a delegation from you. If you have different governments than them the situation is even worse and if you are competing for resources or land you may end up at war. As near as I have seen so far the only civ that forgives you (ever) for being at war with them is Ghandi of India unless they declare on you in which case for some odd reason they don't seem to dislike you nearly as much after they lose. Once you are denounced you can pretty much assume you'll stay in the dog house until the end of time. This is doubly annoying because while the AIs usually hate you they also hate each other and almost never do anything about it except annually remind you they still hate you (and each other). If they do decide to declare war on you they are hilariously bad at it. Having said all that neither diplomacy or the unit selection are reason enough to hesitate on getting this game as my wife and I have enjoyed playing it for ~100hrs even with all that said.

Bought this "DISK" so I could play offline, get the thing to find out the disk is useless and you have to download the game off steam. The game takes 10/15 mins to load "if it doesn't crash" and when Yiu do get it to load it crashed half the time .. .. games not that good either it's clunky and unintuitive. Do not buy avoid at all costs

Sou usuário dos jogos dessa franquia (Sid Meyer's) desde as primeira versões e até hoje me distraio com o Civilization VI, em modo single, que me parece a versão eletrônica que mais se aproxima do xadrez. Entretanto não pude ainda experimentar esta versão VI.

Bought this for my husband who has been playing this ( series 1 to 5) game for almost 20:years. He enjoyed the tutorial which came with it.

But I should have done my homework. Better on Steam

Product accurately described, as new disc and swiftly delivered. A good seller!