First Reviews of Civilization V

An anonymous reader submitted linkage to a story explaining why Hemos has been twitching for a week in anticipation: "Defying the urge to phone-in an unambitious sequel and coast on past successes, Sid Meier's Civilization V is anything but a lazy rehash. It feels almost as if someone described the concept of the renowned 19-year-old turn-based strategy series to a talented designer who'd never played it, and let him come up with his own version. It's similar enough to be familiar to veterans, different enough to be fresh, and its polish and accessibility make it a great place for new players to pick up one hell of a Civ addiction."

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Re:It blocked installs till 10 AM local time too

[Archangel Michael]

However, DRM is an entirely artificial addition and there's no physical law that says it has to be there.

Meaning "I want to BitTorrent the games I play, I'm not paying for anything anyway" right? OR are you just a dick that doesn't care if people pirate games? Steam provides a greater service than you're giving them credit for.

1) Steam only requires activation to their servers, this is one time deal. YES they could go away, but as long as you have that computer you have you can still play the game.

2) In giving up the off chance that Steam isn't around in ten years, you get the ability to install the game on any computer now, that you have access to.

3) Lost or broken CD/DVDs are no longer a problem, as long as Steam servers offer the game.

Activation is unreasonable. What if the activation server goes away in 5 years from now? I still play 10 year old games sometimes.

You haven't lost or broken the CD? Are still using the ten year old computer?

Or you expect me to believe that the game you bought (dubious claim) ten years ago (WIN 98) actually plays on your Win 7 machine, provided you still have the CD for it?

Or is it your DOS game works on Linux?

Basically I'm calling bullshit. Name the game that is ten years old, and what computer you use to play it.

Lastly, if you don't want to play the game, because of some "potential" problem, then don't.

humans and roads aren't perfect and so on.

Neither are computers and games and so on.