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While nothing world-beating, this is a great looking game for the Switch and one that stays true to the original intent and style. Battle animations between units is also a nice touch helping to illustrate how a player's decisions play out.

This is reflected in dramatic fashion throughout the ages. Those cities expand and change based on one of the many ways a player chooses to lead its populace. The real visual treat here is the flowing unraveling of the map and cities. The randomized maps are varied and look great, and zooming close provides plenty of detail, although it's a bit fuzzy at times.

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This is clearly a scaled-down version compared to its PC counterpart, but the art style gives it a unique feel and wasn't going for uber-realistic in the first place. We’ll keep you updated, as we progress through human history towards the game’s October 21 release.Once again, the Switch has allowed developers to pull off a feat for the ages.Ĭivilization VI never set out to win any awards for graphics-which doesn't mean it looks bad. And while I still expect it will take two expansions to get all the kinks out, at least Civilization VI seems more extensive than Civ V was at launch. Yeah, we did just finish with Civ V, but Civ VI is bringing big changes-as big as the switch to hexes, or the one-unit-per-tile rule. Still, it made for a good first impression.

I liked what I saw, but there’s so much more to see it’s hard to know what to make of the game. I was about as big a warmonger as Switzerland.Īnd then there’s the fact I only played sixty turns-hardly enough time to get started in Civ, let alone get a meaningful grasp on the game’s intricacies. Why did he do it? Because I was a “warmonger.” Keep in mind, at this point I had a grand total of one military unit, and had only fought in self-defense. What else is new? Early build woes, I’m sure, but Teddy Roosevelt declared war on me apropos of nothing, midway through my demo-after the devs said he’d probably be friendly towards me. The AI seems a bit finicky at the moment. It’s a huge shift after Civ V’s clean art deco look, and I’m still not entirely fond of this new direction. But the exaggerated colors and soft edges land this somewhere between the stylized look of Civ IV and the cartoonish look of Civilization Revolution. I don’t hate it, and it admittedly looks better in motion than it does in screenshots. It could be devastating, especially in the early game.īy far my favorite new feature in Civ VI is “Active Research” though-I say, as someone who mostly pursues Science victories. Here, if the enemy destroys six tile improvements? Well that’s two more Workers you’ll need to construct, wasting valuable turns when your city should be doing something more useful.

In previous Civilization games, destroying tile improvements just meant Workers (who were most likely idle anyway) would start repairing in their downtime. One obvious consequence is, as I said, that war feels more punishing.

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I’m curious how it holds up for the full game. It’s not like previous Civs where you’d eventually have a cloud of workers all toiling away. On the other hand, the finite number of improvements to be made per Worker meant it felt almost like directing an army or an explorer. It’s a bit more tedious in that regard (at least for me) than previous Civ games. As a habitual abuser of the “automate workers” button in previous Civilization games, this meant for that the first time I had to sit and micro-manage my workers.

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