Civilization 7, Despite All Its Risky Changes, Is Gorgeous

Summary

Civ 7 is combination of the best of Civ 6 and Civ 5.
The detail on units and cites is particularly good.
Firaxis expanded its art team for Civilization 7.

Simple. Right to the point. Civilization 7 is the best looking 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Civilization game ever. If you’re as terminally-online as me and as obsessed with Civ, you’ll know that the art style in Civ 6 was slammed at launch💧. It grew on me over time, because it’s hard not to fall in love with something that you spend hundreds of hours staring at, but I always missed the realism of the fifth game. Yet returning to that older title now is a bit jarring - I still love it, of course - but it’s dark, gritty, and finally showing a bit of its age.

So you’ll understand my joy when I saw Civ 7 appear at Gamescom. It brings some of the colour of Civ 6 and moulds it into the realism of Civilization 5. It’s the best of both worlds. I got an extremely short time to play the game at Gamescom, just under half an hour - nowhere near enough to properly get into a game of Civ, what the hell were they thinking not giving me 50 hours - but it w𒁃as plenty of time to zoom in on just about every single section of the map I uncovered.

With Civ 7, Civilization Has ༒Finally R💯emoved Endgame Boredom

Civilization 7 is changing a l❀ot, and one of the biggest changes is to how the game evolves over the course of a fu🀅ll playthrough.

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I played as Egypt and settled on a long, navigable river - an amazing new feature that Dennis Shir🎀k, executive producer on Civ 7, explains was an incredibly difficult bit of programming - and my small settlement began to expand. My first district upgrade, a small farm, fits naturally into the landscape. The wheat flows in t🐬he wind. Carts travel from the farm. Workers go about their business. Yes, I did spend most of my limited time with the game staring at farmland. That’s just how good it looks.

The map itself is vibrant but not cartoony. There’s plenty of biome variety, the oceans are particularly beautiful and I’m hoping that with some of the exploratiꦉon mechanics in the game (only briefly touched on during our Gamescom presentation) that we might finally get a modern Civ game with decent ocean content. After scouring the land for pretty resources to look at and a few natural wonders, I returned to my small, growing city.

I love how cities expand naturally and with more depth and detail than in Civ 6. Shirk also says that having organic cities that spread out over the landscape naturally was a key design target. “There will still be empty spaces, even with the new town system we have, but we hope to make the meshing of cities across a territory look more natural.🍬”

We also spoke about how changing civilizations will change the aesthetic of your city overtime. Just like in reality, some things change, but some stay the same—if you’re playing as Egypt it might be that your unique buildings aren’t demolished long into the Modern Age, if ever. This will apply to other civilizations also. Due to the changing civilizations during gameplay, it’s possible that you’ll get a pretty eclectic mix of buildings as the game goes on, which will allow for a lot of variety between your playthroughs. I’m not sure whether every player is going to enjoy this system to begin with, but for me it's sort of exciting to see what combinations and styles can be crafted across a long session of Civ.

Shirk also tells me that Firaxis really expanded its art team between Civilization 6 and Civilization 7. “We wanted all the units, all the buildings, to feel unique and to have as much detail as possible, between all the civilizations. We’r💞e still working on more and we want to show them off, and we will as soon as we can.”

Overall, Civ 7 looks like everything I wanted from a new Civ game, at least aesthetically. We’ll have to wait and see how these fundamentally game-changing new mechanics work in the game, but I have more than a little faith in the developers. They’ve been doing this for a long time and have earned the right to make some daring decisions. And any♛way, even if it’s rough at the start, at least it’s gonna look damn good while I play it.