Cities are no longer one-tile affairs in which you can fit all seven wonders and a cup of cheese. The gameplay is pure Civilization, the king of the 4X genre, with a few wrinkles that make Civ VI stand out. As such, I want to focus less on the game itself (did I mention that it’s pretty great?) and more on how the port–that, honestly, I never thought we’d see–holds up. Thus, you won’t be surprised to know I went into this review expecting to love the game. Secondly, I managed to be good enough that Santa brought me a new iPad Pro, so I spent these last two weeks breaking it in with marathon sessions of Civilization VI.Ĭivilization VI came to PC and Mac back in 2016 and I loved it enough on my Mac that it nabbed the top spot of my Best Games of 2016 list.

First of all, two of my kids have seen the light in regards to Santa, so they know those Xbox games came directly from their already meager inheritance rather than an elvish sweat shop. Not only are the kids home, but they’re hopped up on gingerbread and peppermint not to mention the entitlement that comes along with being told they’re “good” based solely on presents received from a mystical fat guy. You then have a Stock Exchange added to the Great Works system, to allow you to add in products to share buffs between cities and you can even create a monopoly on something which brings in vast amounts of tourism.My kids had nearly two weeks off school for the holiday break, which usually translates to some of my worst headaches of the year. Industries will provide buffs to cities and as you get more resources you can level up your industry into a corporation, to further increase the buffs and then you can create products. The new mode enables you to create an industry around duplicate resources. There's going to be a new civilization with Vietnam joining the world, two new leaders for existing civilizations (China and Mongolia), a new 'Monopolies and Corporations' game mode with expanded economic options which sounds really quite interesting. While the full details are yet to be released, Firaxis did a developer update video to tease some of it.

Here's some highlights of what's to come. Firaxis has confirmed the next DLC that forms part of the New Frontier Pass for Civilization VI will be releasing on January 28.

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