Since Lorini asked so nicely, here's a new thread to discuss Civilization V, post-release, rather than making people sift through thirteen pages of preview comments to get to the good stuff.
In an effort to make this thread not totally useless until tomorrow, here's a probably-incomplete compilation of links to reviews and other useful things that have been mentioned in the preview thread (I'll try to keep this updated past tomorrow, but no promises):
Official site and PDF manual.
CivFanatics: Civ5 Confirmed Features and Versions (retailer-specific ordering information is in this post)
CivFanatics: Civ5 Playthru Gallery
Arioch's Civ 5 Analyst
Sulla's Civ5 report
Tips & Tricks
How to Disable the Intro Video:
Note that the intro video is just a cover for the game to finish loading, though. Disabling it will cause you to look at a blank screen, instead, for the 15 or so seconds the game needs. The video is skippable even if you don't disable it - it just doesn't respond to the skip request until loading is finished.Exodor, courtesy of SA, wrote:Go to C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5 (For Vista/Win7) and load UserSettings. Search for SkipIntroVideo and change it to 1. SkipIntroVideo = 1
Gameplay Videos
2K Livestream: Part 1 & Part 2
Gamespot
Reviews (Metacritic page)
The Escapist
Joystiq
Game Informer
Destructoid
Gaming Nexus
ShackNews
GameTrailers
IGN
PC Gamer
Wall Street Journal (seriously? the WSJ reviews videogames now?)
Wired
Computer and Video Games
Ars Technica
PC Mag
Cheat Code Central
EuroGamer
GameShark
Strategy Informer
VideoGamer
Tom Chick: 1UP review; Ten Cool Things; AI War Issues; Singapore Mon Amour
Those of you who are so inclined now have approximately 27 hours to get this thread to page two.
- Ash