Likewise, in the same game, war utterly breaks the AI’s competence.The way it breaks them is that rather than realize they can't fight you, they think they're in those few turns before they declare war again rather than trying anything else, and indeed, the diplomacy menu for other civs pops up a lot and has the civs you're at peace with offer peace and do nothing else on a regular basis like they would if they'd be allowed to declare war (though without trying to coerce your much stronger civ). The Great Wall, however, forces all civilizations to be at peace with you, and to offer peace if they're at war. The AI is programmed to, upon contact, constantly wage war with you, barring situations where you've managed to defeat them so thoroughly that they can only last a couple more turns if the situation continues. Breaker: The Great Wall Wonder in Revolution 2 completely destroys them. Adventure Archaeologist: In Brave New World, both the archaeologist icon and a specific achievement are Shout Outs to the Adventure Archaeologist.Achievement Mockery: Some of V's achievements are less than complimentary, including 'He threw a car at my head!' for having to buy back one of your cities from barbarian conquerors, and 'Seriously?!?' for repeatedly failing to construct Wonders.Acceptable Breaks from Reality: Many, as a game which truly approximated all the headaches of running an Empire would only be interesting to professors, extremely hardcore gamers, and megalomaniacs.Not to be confused with the 1916 silent film with the same title or the noted 1969 BBC documentary about art history. 'Baba Yetu' ('Our Father' in Swahili), the menu music from Civilization IV, note Technically, the re-arrangement of the piece for the album 'Calling All Dawns.' became the first song from a video game to ever win a Grammy Award, which hopefully will spur the Grammy Awards into including an award for 'interactive fiction' music scores and songs. It is (in)famous for leading to gameplay sessions that extend well past the player's original self-imposed deadline, so much so that a joke 'Civilization Anonymous' website was made. The game's open-ended play, and the multiple settings (involving world size, terrain, opposing civilizations, multiple victory scenarios, game play speed and difficulty) mean that every game can be different from the previous one. The world was viewed from a 3/4 perspective until IV let you zoom in/out and move the camera around, and took place on square-shaped tiles until V moved to hex. Later games added more win conditions: get elected leader of the world by the United Nations, controlling a dominant chunk of the planet (which kind of renders obsolete the 'conquer everyone' goal, which is probably why it was removed again later), convert everyone to your religion, or create a culture so influential that it engulfs everyone else's.Īll aspects of the civilization are under the control of the player, including exploration, technological advancement, expansion, material production, culture, religion, military development and deployment, foreign negotiations, and trade. The first installments gave you two ways to win: conquering everyone, or sending a colony to Alpha Centauri. The general concept is that the player controls a civilization from the stone age through the present day into the space age. Many polls and lists of the best computer games ever developed have, at various times, listed several of the games in the series, often at #1. The game was originally inspired by a Board Game, and has since spawned two others.

The original game was developed in 1991 by Sid Meier, and there have been five direct sequels as of October 21, 2016, numerous expansion packs, and many spin-offs ( Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Colonization, Civilization: Call to Power, Civilization: Beyond Earth), as well as the much simplified Civilization Revolution for home consoles, the Nintendo DS and iPhone, Civ World for Facebook, and the MMO Civilization Online. Civilization is a popular '4X' Long Runner game series.

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