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  • Summary: Civilization VI offers new ways to interact with your world, expand your empire across the map, advance your culture, and compete against history’s greatest leaders to build a civilization that will stand the test of time.
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  1. Positive: 79 out of 84
  2. Negative: 1 out of 84
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Dec 12, 2016
    100
    Although it’s not without flaws, the sixth Civilization brings a lot of outstanding news and makes its mark into the history of the series as crucial point break to a slightly new form of a good old recipe. [Issue #269]
  2. Nov 3, 2016
    95
    This is an astounding game. Civilization has always been associated as the benchmark for strategy gaming, and Civilization VI is now at the peak. This is as good as it gets.
  3. Oct 26, 2016
    93
    An addictive strategy masterpiece. More freedom, personalization, complexity and meaningful choices than ever. The best things are an improved difficulty, different victory conditions, city management, historic characters and roles.
  4. Oct 24, 2016
    90
    Civ 6 has a few rough edges, but they’re pushed far into the periphery by spectacular strategic depth and intricate interlocking nuances. Any frustrations I experienced were immediately eclipsed by my desire to continue playing. Just one more turn, every turn, forever.
  5. Oct 26, 2016
    90
    Civ VI has improved upon nearly every system and mechanic in the game, at no real cost to the experience. It's the easiest Civ to play, but it's also the most complex Civ to date. There's enough default automation that you can ignore a lot of the minutia if you want, but micromanagers like myself will still have all the tedium they can dream of. There's nothing quite as satisfying as pillaging every single tile in an aggressive neighbor's civilization.
  6. Nov 1, 2016
    85
    Civilization 6 core gameplay has not changed. The additions the developer made only contribute to the excitement and challenge. Civilization 6 is a worthy successor to the franchise.
  7. Nov 2, 2016
    40
    It’s not my place to second guess game design. As you know, you go to Civilization with the game you have, not the game you might want or wish to have at a later time. But it is my place to note that when I go to Civilization, I’m looking for more than just a laid back single-player cities builder with the AI frittering idly in the margins. I cut my teeth on Sid Meier’s grand strategy without a brain-dead tactical layer drizzled over the top. I admire a lot of what Firaxis is doing to move on from the mess of Civilization V. They’re headed in the right direction, even if they are dragging a lot of baggage.

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  1. Oct 21, 2016
    10
    This game Is honestly beautiful, at first I was a bit worried about how the new cartoonish style would flow in the game. Honestly it grows onThis game Is honestly beautiful, at first I was a bit worried about how the new cartoonish style would flow in the game. Honestly it grows on you quite quickly and it fits the game well, for a launch i would say this lives up to its predecessors, we already see a lot of features and there is a lot to do in this game without spoiling too much. The game flows great, costume game is fun as always with lots of options and factions to pick from. In conclusion I love it! Expand
  2. Aug 22, 2020
    9
    Отличная игра, затягивает и долго не отпускает от экрана. В игре приятное звуковое сопровождение, графика радует глаз, все ярко, красочно иОтличная игра, затягивает и долго не отпускает от экрана. В игре приятное звуковое сопровождение, графика радует глаз, все ярко, красочно и сочно. Однако, в игре есть некоторые пробелы в геймплеи. Поиграв около месяца, я пришел к выводу, что древо развития науки необходимо качать только в одной последовательности, только в таком случае получается победить на уровне сложности божество. В итоге переигрывать утомляет, так как прокачка сводится всегда к одному. После развития цивилизации ты начинаешь атаковать соперника и тут начинается самое интересное, если Вы играете на большой карте, ваш марш бросок может затянуться на недельную игру. И это не зависит от мощности соперника, а время тратится на передвижение войска на 1-2 клетки и довольно долгое ожидание хода противника. Надоедает вплоть до нажатия кнопки alt+f4. Я перечислил то, чем игра меня не устроила и как по мне становится неиграбельной после 4-5 побед на компьютером. Возможно в онлайне дела куда веселей, но с ai играть утомляет. В целом моя оценка 9/10 аналогов игры нет и поиграть стоит всем! Expand
  3. Oct 21, 2016
    9
    Few diplomacy bugs/randomness, graphics takes a while to get used to. But all in all the a.i is pretty ok (which is good for a just releasedFew diplomacy bugs/randomness, graphics takes a while to get used to. But all in all the a.i is pretty ok (which is good for a just released civ game). Definitely worth buying it.
    Most of the other features are top notch.
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  4. euu
    Oct 23, 2016
    6
    It's better than vanilla Civ 5 but nowhere near as good as Civ 5 with all the expansions. The main problem it suffers from is lack ofIt's better than vanilla Civ 5 but nowhere near as good as Civ 5 with all the expansions. The main problem it suffers from is lack of innovation. Not a lot of things have changed since the previous title. Combat is the same, trade routes work the same, so does religion, enemy AI is just as stupid, etc.

    There are some areas where the game did some modifications though, the most noticeable being the Districts. This makes you "specialize" your cities as you can no longer build all types of buildings in the city and have to think very well what you build considering the amount of tiles you have available. The social policy system has been changed as well, for the worse in my opinion, as now you gain some social cards when researching a social policy and you can select the bonus of a number of these cards depending on what goverment you have. Again, like in Civ 5 there is no downside to any form of goverment and some of the combinations you make don't even make sense(for example you can drag the Rationalism Card to a Theocracy and you don't get any penalty).

    One thing that I liked is that you can boost your research of Tech and Social by making certain actions in the game. For example, building a number of Quaries can boost your Research towards Mansory, reducing the time you need to reserach this tech, or defeating barbarians can boost you research of Bronze Working and so on. This is the best addition in my opinion as you are no longer need to put a lot of effort in creating Science and Culture, especially if you like to play Military.

    I would rate this higher if it wasn't however for the horrible presentation of the game. I think everyone is already familiar with the horrible iPad graphics. Look, nobody expected this to have GTA 5 graphics and you can talk all you want about muh unique art style but there is no excuse for a 60 dollar game in 2016 to look like a Fremium iPad game, especially when it looks worse than its predecessor. The sound isn't any better either. The Main Menu theme is fine and the choice of Sean Bean as the narrator is excelent, but the music in the main game sucks. Previous Civ games had classical music to listen to as you built your empire. This game has the type of generic crap that you usually hear in Facebook games.

    My 2 cents? Wait for the price to drop or at least for some mods to show up.
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  5. Nov 4, 2016
    5
    Single player is pretty good. Really enjoying it.

    Tried to set up a multiplayer game with my wife - terrible. Should be ashamed of
    Single player is pretty good. Really enjoying it.

    Tried to set up a multiplayer game with my wife - terrible. Should be ashamed of yourselves as game makers. I think, the reason it won't work is mac/PC, but FFS make an error message that says that. Don't let me invite her. Don't have her "visit profile" to accept. And sure as sh@t don't respond with some ambiguous version mismatch with host message when she does.

    Fix it. It's 2016.
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  6. Oct 23, 2016
    3
    Utterly laughable that the developers saw fit to leave Persia, one of the greatest, widest spanning and most important civilizations in theUtterly laughable that the developers saw fit to leave Persia, one of the greatest, widest spanning and most important civilizations in the history of mankind out of the basic game. Whats more is that for obvious reasons of political correctness they then include the Kongolese. Expand
  7. Aug 14, 2019
    0
    of course it was always going to be a mobile game... duh I remember dev team confirming its not going to be. Guess how wrong were they. I giveof course it was always going to be a mobile game... duh I remember dev team confirming its not going to be. Guess how wrong were they. I give 0 for horrible practices Expand

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