This turn-based strategy game is reasonably deep and very fun and has tons of value behind it. As far as strategy games go, this one is definitely one of the most accessible. Learning how to play is easy and rewarding. The Brave New World expansion is a must-have as it adds plenty of gameplay elemetns that truly enhance the game altogether. A couple minor gripes: The AI is too easy, and on higher difficulties they are only given advantages like money or science boosts rather than actually playing the game more intelligently and strategically. This is pretty unfair. Essentially they are just given cheats compared to you. Tons of fun if you have eight hours to play a game with friends in a LAN setting (don't let those conniving bastards peek at your screen though). Anyone who loves this game would do themselves a service to check out Civilization 4 which is actually more in-depth than Civ 5 in many regards, because in making Civ 5 more accessible it was dumbed down a bit.

This turn-based strategy game is reasonably deep and very fun and has tons of value behind it. As far as strategy games go, this one is definitely one of the most accessible. Learning how to play is easy and rewarding. The Brave New World expansion is a must-have as it adds plenty of gameplay elemetns that truly enhance the game altogether. A couple minor gripes: The AI is too easy, and on higher difficulties they are only given advantages like money or science boosts rather than actually playing the game more intelligently and strategically. This is pretty unfair. Essentially they are just given cheats compared to you. Tons of fun if you have eight hours to play a game with friends in a LAN setting (don't let those conniving bastards peek at your screen though). Anyone who loves this game would do themselves a service to check out Civilization 4 which is actually more in-depth than Civ 5 in many regards, because in making Civ 5 more accessible it was dumbed down a bit.