Sid Meier's Civilization 7 Review: Rewriting History In Bold, Messy Strokes
starts, like its predecessors, with a settler on unclaimed land. You found a city, jump into the tech tree, and within a few turns, you've once again discovered the wheel. It's only as the game ticks along that the array of choices becomes truly complex, a sequence of events that serves as a surprisingly apt summation of the series as a whole. Each game has the unenviable task of balancing tradition with innovation, maintaining artifacts from a formula devised in 1991 while, as always, reinventing the wheel.
In some ways, 's approach feels unusually bold, particularly in its embrace of a new Ages system that cuts up civilizations across three distinct eras. In other ways, many of its ideas feel like logical evolutions of 's half-measures, and it's all too easy to gloss over how divisive overhauls have always been. While now serves as the inimitable touchstone for many players, its left turn into hex-based design and the absence of key features at launch made it just as contentious as this will likely be.
features plenty of additions, but veterans are more likely to notice everything that's missing in the earliest minutes of a playthrough. Before even entering a game, a diminished array of map types and sizes makes for a poor introduction. In the fledgling stages of an empire, the focus shifts to the absence of familiar faces like workers and Great People. Although making cuts is standard procedure, especially at launch, a few of 's excisions have been core parts of the franchise's identity from the start.
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Newcomers, on the other hand, may not suspect that anything is awry. Most changes feel more like reworked design pillars than cut corners, making steps that wasn't quite ready to make. I miss workers, but I miss what they were in the older games, not the expendable units that grafted onto its district system. Not every
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