I only played a little but it was fun.

GF: I meet you at the party right? Me: Yeah sure, just going to play one quick game, just 5 minutes. GF: Okay, I meet you there! -------5 Hours later------ *GF comes home angry* GF: You didn't show up at the party! Where were you?! Me: India is nuking my cities, Mongolia is attacking them and Zulu sold me out! GF: What? Me: But that's not really a problem, I am allied to England and Byzantine, Persia got nothing on us! GF: What are you talking about? Me: There's been a lot of wars beetween Rome, Korea and Germany, so I am going to let them be. GF: YOU DIDN'T SHOW UP AT THE PARTY LIKE WE AGREED! Me: I got a diplomat In France and Netherlands, I think they plotting against me. GF: YOU NEVER SHOW UP AT ANYTHING! Me: It looks like Japan and Egypt dosen't do much, I can totally outvote them on anything in the Congress. GF: YOU DIDN'T EVEN SHOW UP AT MY BROTHER'S FUNERAL! Me: Russia and Spain is being awfully queit... you think they're planing on doing something? GF: WHY DO YOU BAIL OUT ON EVERY SINGLE THING??!! WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE OUT?! Me: I deafeted Poland, Ethiopia and Austria early in the game, the others dosen't know about it. GF: YOU EVEN INGORE ME?!! Me: Whatever happens, I am winning this game. GF: HOW ARE YOU POSSIBLY WINNING ANYTHING? Me: Because I am allied to 5 millitary City-States I am running for world leader and almost finnished the space program. GF: I AM LEAVING YOU! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I didn't notice until 3 days later she was gone.

havent spent enough time to give my full opinion, but its good

- played as Arabia on a large earth map - started in Europe with Brazil below me - captured Brazil's capital city because it look nice - turtled half the game before finding out I was coming second - RUSSIA WAS FIRST - the only one between me and victory - Russia (who spawned in Siberia) wiped out Egypt and Japan (which were around Kazakhstan) - Russia has an army 3 TIMES the size of mine despite -2000 gold per turn - Russia has like 30 cities somehow - Russia's capital is in the middle of those 30 cities - Russia was sill ahead in tech, yet had NEGATIVE 2000 GOLD PER TURN - operation cold war was now in effect - allied with Korea (who was above turkey) and every city state near Russia to use as a shields - sent 2 nukes along with a fleet of 15 ships across the world to get as close to the capital as possible - still wasn't close enough - Russia's building the space ship faster than I can - sent xcom squads to the city states closest to the capital - ATTACK - cue Skyrim music - sent ships into the sea of Okhotsk - oh crap Russia was prepared - was met with a blockade of nuclear submarines - but the nukes must go through - punched a hole in the blockade with my cruisers - my ships sinking left and right - sent the cruiser with the nukes as far in as possible - both Russia and I are on our last spaceship part - the range on the bombs is just close enough - FIRE THE NUKES - SEND IN THE XCOM SQUADS - captured Russia's capital! - no ships made it out though, their sacrifices will be honored - most intense battle I ever fought - one turn later and France wins a cultural victory - WHAT THE HELL FRANCE great game 8.5/10

Alexander the great insulted my army saying they were **** I declared war on him he was right

As a Native American I was glad to finally see a game that accurately portrays our culture. I will never forget the day we built the pyramids on a grassland hill, or who could forget when we used mega death robots to destroy the incan empire for trying to convert our cities to Confuciacism. 10/10.

I passed my history exams with my knowledge of the great war of 1956 between Fascist India dictated by Gandhi the Terrible against Communist America.

My civ was only 6000 years old. I loved Gandhi so much, I had traded all my resources to him. I prayed to Gandhi every night before bed, thanking him for the civ I had been given. Gandhi is love I said, Gandhi is life. Russia hears me and publicly denounces me. I knew he was just jealous, of my devotion to Gandhi. I declared war on him, he attacks me and forces me to sign a peace treaty. I'm crying now, and my city is hurt. I lay in defeat and its really cold. A warmth is moving towards me. I feel something touch my civ. Its Gandhi. I'm so happy. He whispers to me: "this is my land." He grabs me with his powerful Indian army, and puts me on my hands and knees. I'm ready. I spread my army for Gandhi. He penetrates my border. It hurts so much, but I do it for Gandhi. I can feel my army dying, as my eyes start to water. I push against his force. I want to please Gandhi. He roars a mighty roar, as he fills my civ with his nukes. Russia walks in. Gandhi looks him straight in the eye, and says "It's all fallout now." Gandhi waves through my borders. Gandhi is love, Gandhi is life.

50 Hours into your latest save, all is going well. Only 3 leaders left Gandhi, Caesar and Washington. you draft an 'end game' plan in your mind, you will make friends with Gandhi (for obvious reasons he's chill) then procede to befriend Caesar. Then you will take out Washington because he is a dick and did not accept an open border agreement 3000 years prior HE MUST PAY. 20 turns later all is going to plan, we are now on Washingtons doorstep, Gandhi and Caesar appear to love and probably fear your superpower nation. All we need to do is eliminate the pesky Americans and ith all our military now on American soil this should not take long. Then after the swift invasion of America we will make a vote for world peace at the U.N (in rome of course) with our new found Indian and Roman brethren it is a sure win! But all of a sudden the distant droning of nuclear sirens start, quickly they become louder and louder, "what is this!?" you think to yourself, a false alarm? You shrug it off maybe Caesae bombing a city state. The game pauses... Gandhi appears on the screen, with a sinister grin he shouts "WAR" in your face. Only seconds after you see a gut wrenching sight. The camera focuses on a nuclear submarine stationed just off the coast of your pride and joy, the capital of your glorious nation. You then hear a rumble, just seconds after a nuclear warhead emerges from the previously hidden submarine, you realise it is too late... you can only watch as the missle closes in. As your city goes up in a giant cloud there are short lived screams from your beloved people, then silence. Before what had just occurred had sunk in, before you could make rescue efforts to save your much loved citizens the humming of quiet engines fall upon your ears. Suddenly countless 'stealth bombers' appear seemingly out of no where, soon the sky is blackened by planes, the game falls almost silent only the whistle of falling bombs remains. You faint from the shock of what is unfolding. You awake shortly after, Gandhi is still flattening what remains of your once prosperous empire, now with 'giant death robots' making the most of his seemingly never ending turn. As Gandhi clinically and relentlessly razes what's left of your broken nation all you can do is weep, your people hacked down in their prime and your glorious nation so mighty just minutes before has just been been all but eliminated in 1 turn. Why oh why did you turn of autosave? did it really speed your game up? was it worth it? Ghandi is a complete asshole, he acts like your friend but WILL nuke the shit out of you if even the slightest oppurtunity presents itself. 10/10

It's like crack. You keep telling yourself 'just one more turn'. but then you realize you've been sitting in your underwear for for 36 hours and you've forgotten to check on your wife who gave birth to your baby last night.

Stop trying to find negative reviews for this game JUST GET IT ALREADY!!!!!

I am the peaceful nation of the Celts. We shall be the nation of religion, and of diplomacy. This went well; we ended up next to the Babylonians, and we expanded nicely in peace. However, I have always believed in "dibs", so I placed down Glasgow onto the land between us, to provide a little buffer. They seemed annoyed by this. A few warriors glared at each other across our borders for a few hundred years, but otherwise, nothing too bad happened. In order to spread our religion further (because we were known for our Confucian beliefs which helped us grow our borders and spread our religion faster), we begin to invest in boats. Soon we covered the oceans in missionaries, Inquisitors, and warriors to help defend our religious allies. Babylon was making friends with a local city state, Genoa. However, they were trying to spread Zoroastrianism; those heathens! Despite both our religions being known for their peace, we passive-aggressively sent missionary and Inquisitor to Genoa. Over the course of about 700 years, we had probably burned a few thousand people for swapping religions; those same Warriors had been given spears now, but they continue to glare at each other from across the borders. I offer Babylon some sugar for their spice; they wanted my sugar, iron, coal and all of my money. I then asked Germany if they wanted sugar for spice; they accepted. North of me, Rome had begun a war with France. Due to my time of peace and massive amounts of trade, I found myself with a huge amount of money. Everytime France and Rome made peace, I knew that Rome was beginning to look on my relatively peaceful country with greedy eyes. So I bought... I gifted many city states my religion and gold, and then I bought... gifted France and Germany enough money to declare with with Rome. While they fought, my Spearmen (now Musketmen) continued to glare with Babylon's, and we continued our 1500 year religious passive-aggression over Genoa. They said I was spying on them; I said I wouldn't. When my spies returned, I sent them back to Babylon. A squad of 5 Great Prophets charged into Babylon, converting left, right and centre. Babylon complained I was being a bit aggressive. I apologised. I then sent more missionaries to Babylon. I had now found every single Civilization; we decided to have a United Nations meeting in 1600A.D. I, as the host, gave everyone a single vote. Except myself. I gave myself 16, due to my popularity. I declared my religion to be the world religion. Every one opposed. I listened to their opinions, and then passed it anyway. When Rome got angry about this, I then paid France to declare war again. When Babylon got angry, I then paid Rome to declare war on them. My civilians were amazingly happy; hugely more than any other place. But because I was an Emperor, they declared me Declis the Terrible; despite my universal healthcare, happy citizens, peaceful religion, not a single war in my entire history and massive popularity in the word. My army consisted of mostly my friends, my city states, and my Musketmen (now Great War Infantry) continued to glare at the Babylonian Great War Infantry, after 2000+ years. A great duty to my nation, their descendants shall continue to frown at the Babylonians until the civilizations of the world fall. Eventually we reached a grand United Nations meeting; I sat on one side of the chamber with my 12 City State friends, and the other 7 nations glared at me from the other side. I said that the People's Confucian Republican Empire of Scotland was the best nation in the world. They all voted against me. I smiled, and then declared I won anyway. Democracy is overrated. Freedom of religion only applies to my religion. I don't need to be stronger when I'm more popular (and my people are probably more beautiful). And if you don't like me, I'll pay your best friend to backstab you. Through this, I came to understand American foreign policy. So Civilization is if nothing else, an educational tool.

Made me obsessed, destroyed my social life, gave me and irrational fear of Gandhi. and made me invest countless hours into destroying civilizations. 12/10 potatoes

For those who are deciding whether or not to purchase civ 5, I will compile a small pros and cons list to help you out. Pros: - Greatest game on Planet. Cons: - Loss of Friends - Loss of Time - Loss of Job - Loss of Pet Fish (poor fish) - Loss of Sleep - Loss of Sex - Loss of Money for snacks - Loss of Money for Drinks - Loss of Money for pot - Well Known Gateway Drug to Crack - Ghandi - Probably Illegal somewhere - Have 350 Hours on Steam - Bought the game 3 weeks ago - Help Me..

I can sum this game up in one game play. I play as China. I found Judaism. I spread Judaism to Germany. The Germans love being a bunch of Jews... I spread it to India. Gandhi tells the Jews to go get fucked. The Aztecs wipe out the Spainish. World War 1 starts as a result in 1756. The mostly neutral Siamese get fucked for being mostly neutral. I follow Freedom. Newly Communist America tells me to go fuck myself cause they really hate 'China, Land of the Free.' So I tell America to go get fucked. India becomes Facist under the supreme dictator Gandhi, who also happens to hate Jews. I tell India to go fuck themselves. World War 2 starts as a result in 1998. Its a nuclear war. The Aztecs went to war with 5 civs with a military completely made up of horses and sticks. India nukes 4 different civs within 4 turns (including me.) I nuke India back. Everyone hates me for retaliating and ending the war before more blood could be shed saving countless civilian lives. Under the evil rule of dictator Sejong, facist Korea has some how come to rule an entire continent within all the chaos. Korea tells me to go get fucked. Siam tells me to go get fucked. Germany tells me to get fucked. 7 civs declare war on me at once. i r8 8/8 its gr8 m8.

Teacher-Alright class, what is the significance of Machu Pichu? Me-+5 Gold for the Civilization. 10/10 Would pass world history agian.

Um ... I guess it's okay. If I'm bored with nothing else to do, maybe I'll play once in a while. Oh, and it totally isn't addicting like everyone else says, I mean ... I can stop any time I want.

-playing as the US -explores and finds siam -befriends siam -finds greece -greece is a butthole and invades -gets in a war with greece -takes 2 greek cities and returnes the rest -greece is happy -sails to new lands and finds all other nations -befirends russia and china -gets in a foolish war with siam not knowing that every nation exept china and russia is friends with siam -feels sad because everyone hates me -makes peace with siam because im feeling guilty for being a warmonger -people start being nice to me -feels happy, only germany and arabia are guarded, everyone else is friendly -china asked me to declaire war on arabia even though he has done nothing to me -I decline because Ive decided to be an example to the civilized world -china declares war on and denounces me -germany declares war on me -every nation on earth exept for russia declaires war on me -me and russia vs. the world -I have 3 nukes and no one else has any -cant make myself use them -steamroll enemy city states south of me -steamroll greece to the north -steamroll native american settlements on some islands near me -siam discovers urainum -siam is confirmed to have nuclear power plant -must stop siam from getting nukes -US gunships race to punch a hole in siams defences -all reserve units are embarked for the invasion with destroyer escorts -gunships meet uber heavy resistance -invasion due in 2 turns -russia is being cut off from US aid -sends paratroopers to break the siege of moscow -fails due to being outnumbered 20:1 -D-Day in siam -steamrolls siam until only capital left -no sign of atomic weapons -100,000 troops surrounding the capital -air raid sirens -siam nukes himself four times along with most of my troops -paras mop up and capture the capital -sad music -all other nations in shock -we mourn our fallen troops -all nations make peace in the next 4 turns -we all are sad -decides war must end for good -changes course for diplomatic victory -starts work on UN -becomes allies with 19 city states -all nations live in realitive peace -finishes UN -wins vote -wins game 10/10 no feels like this in a game before.

My favorite part of history was when Ghandi built the Great wall in 4000 BC for his Jewish army. 10/10, helped me with history class.

The game's okay

Don't start it before going to bed. <10/10>

>start game of Civ >be Germany and their great leader, Bismarck >build capitol, name it "Memeville" >order them to build monuments and stuff to increase production >all goes well, I establish other cities >eventually meet Ethiopia after the first few turns >seem alright at first >5 turns later >finally made it to the classical era >built a new city next to Memeville >new city also happened to be next to Ethiopia's capitol >Ethiopia gets pissed, apparently they wanted that land for themselves >tell them to get over it >yousnoozeyoulose.jpeg >2 turns later >My warriors are chilling while on duty, patrolling my border because of the rising tensions with Ethiopia >suddenly >ethiopia declares war >boomitson.mp3 >luckily i have a good bit of warriors >have 3 strong, well defended cities >ethiopia only has 2 as far as I know >one right next to their capitol (to the right of their capitol, because my other city is to the left of his capitol) >and of course, their capitol >my warriors storm and take their capitol quickly >fight was easy due to ethiopia's malnourished warriors >not kidding >they literally had no food in the game >i come in for the finishing blow and capture their final city >think the war is over and ethiopia is finally destroyed >but w8 >there's more >ethiopia apparently has one city left >send my troops over to it >ethiopia comes and begs for peace >i decide to spare them as I basically crippled them for the entire game now >fast forward to the Information Era >am most technologically advanced civ >discovered all other civs >russia, the shostone, persia and korea >over the course of the game, i have made a ton of city-state allies >am current host of the United Nations >only civ to have nukes and have advanced infantry >korea and persia are off killing eachother >shostone and russia killing eachother >can focus on my science victory in peace >but wait >what's that? >its >ETHIOPIA >ethiopia returns for revenge for what we did all those years ago >but in my defense, >they started it >ethiopia made three other cities when I wasn't looking >they now have four, including their new capitol >they gather their troops along my borders >brace for war >make nukes just in case >prepare my XCOM squads >Ethiopia is inferior in tech, but have a quite a bit of troops (they only have riflemen) >war is finally declared by ethiopia >my city-state allies declare war on ethiopia >korea and i have a defensive pact >they declare war on ethiopia >my xcom squads successfully defeat the ethiopian invasion >start going on the offensive >capture two of their cities >not enough for me >keep going >ethiopia is getting screwed from all sides >my city-state allies and korea are ganging up on him >send my xcom squad to their last non-capitol city >pretty well defended >ethiopia has doubts that we'll capture it, even with my tech >i find your lack of faith >disturbing >i have been researching a new tech for the past few turns >is finally completed >start construction on the Giant Death Robot >xcom squad holds their own at the city >Giant Death Robot is ready >Giant Death Robot arrives and unleashes it's fury at the city >xcom squads take it and capture it >I now, once again, have all of ethiopia's cities except their capitol >the capitol is heavily defended as it's their last city >my troops and giant death robot arrive and prepare for the final strike >ethiopia once again comes to me and tries to beg for mercy >no >not this time >time to finish this >i begin my strike, destroying their troops while being bombarded by their city >realize i must launch the nukes if I want to destroy them >have never used nuke before >germany aint about that life >realize its necessary >evacuate my troops from the area >arm the nuke >prepare for launch >3 >2 >1 >gottablast.jpeg >unleash nuclear devastation on ethiopia >they come and beg for peace again >you should have just let me have the land >this could've all been avoided >refuse their offer for peace >they offered me all of their resources and gold just for peace >not enough >my giant death robot and troops move in on the devastated ethiopian capitol >we finish it off and capture it >ethiopia is finally destroyed >look at the nuclear devastation left from the battle >civs are now more bloodthirsty after my show of tremendous power >look up at the sky >ask if it was worth it >yes. yes it was. >finish researching all tech >build spaceship >launch into space >germany leaves earth and leaves it to be ravaged by war >blast off into the unknown to colonize the rest of space and live in peace >remember kids >never spare ethiopia >the end 10/10

I can never forget that day. The day when my grandpa died. I was only 8. He called me to his bedside and whispered to me, in a voice feeble yet somewhat unsatisfied. He said to me, "My lovely grandson, I have nothing to give you in this life, as I have been poor and unfortunate," "Money and fortune, women and sex, lush and class, I can give you none." I wasn't feeling any bit of dissapoint, as I knew very well of him, of his life, of his potential, of the legacy he could leave to his descendants. And then there was, as I remembered correctly, a short silence. "Except for this." My hand was tightly grabbed and, the next thing I remembered, was a 4-GB-black-Kingston-flash-drive-like object being secretly put in my hand, so secretly that not even the people around me had noticed. "Finish my life's work." Those were his last words. After years and years of attempting to figure out just what that only file in the flash drive was, here I was, sitting in front of my laptop, Civ 5 was released. The next thing happened can only explained by me as providence: I copied the file to civ 5 save folder, opened civ 5, attempted to load the file. It loaded. It was a Marathon game, on its 284th turn. There was only one city left, and it was surrounded by enemies' scouts. The city health bar was already depleted, and I had 23 workers that were, even the closest ones, at least ten tiles away from my city. ........................................ Years have passed. There is, like the beginning, only one city left. Except that one city, is the only one not owned by me. My right hand trembled as I reached the "Annex the city" button, never knowing the cause of the tremble being either years of non-stop playing, or the fact that I am now only one button away from fulfilling my grandfather's wish. I looked out the window, tears in both my eyes formed two vertical lines across my face. Noticed the image in the window, the reflection of yet another old man with eyeful of tears, crying, yet satisfied. I stared at the blue sky, whispered: "I finished your work, grandpa."