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Sid Meier's Civilization V coming this year, says 2K Games. Say goodbye to your lives, says us.

It's official - this southern spring, the lives of strategy gamers will effectively end as 2K Games releases the latest iteration of Sid Meier's masterpiece - Civilization V.

The new game's making a lot of changes to the base gameplay: the combat system has been totally revamped, leaders are now fully-animated and speak in their native tongues, and, perhaps the biggest change of all... the game is ditching squares in favour of hexes.

The game's also going to launch with extensive community and modding support - we like! Arguably less likeable is the announcement that Sid's team is also working on a version of Civ for Facebook.

'Cause, yeah, we really need to be wasting more time there. In the meantime, check out some screens of the game in our gallery.

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18 Comments

hectorbustnuts Feb 19, 2010 11:54 AM	That explains the recent bundling and price drop of CivIV on Steam. Looks really good, especially those hex-map screens of pics 3 & 4.
Taranthor Feb 19, 2010 12:00 PM	WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
pkroeze Feb 19, 2010 2:42 PM	yeah can't wait bring on the strategy, now i can dominate and take over the world again, hahahaha(evil).
pkroeze Feb 19, 2010 2:45 PM	by the look of the pics seems as if they changed combat system radically, doesn't look like you can have more than 1 unit on a tile, good change in my opinion.
iamthemaxx Feb 19, 2010 3:37 PM	BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM!!! Hexes....?
Hawkeye Feb 19, 2010 4:21 PM	WILL YOU PEOPLE STOP BREAKING HTE SITE KTHXBI!
Mac Dude Feb 19, 2010 5:06 PM	I still play Civ IV. I'll start saving...
Snoochems Feb 19, 2010 7:19 PM	Playing CIV (Geddit, Civ + IV = CIV) now. Playing on a uber huge map, and have to alt-tab when AI is taking it's turn. Great game. I was wondering when they would make the move to hex tiles!
Periander Feb 19, 2010 7:37 PM	Oh dear god.
Felipe Feb 19, 2010 9:35 PM	I likes it. FX.
Sir_Substance Feb 19, 2010 9:54 PM	Mongols represent!
SceptreCore Feb 20, 2010 2:19 PM	I have never played any of the the Civ's. So this game doesn't really interest me. But heres to hoping he decides to make another Pirates game.
MagnumXY Feb 20, 2010 5:32 PM	You spelt Meier as "Mieir" in the subheading.
SceptreCore Feb 20, 2010 6:58 PM	Magnum, it's not exactly a first rate magazine/website :P Or just poor editing from our editor.
lemaster22 Feb 20, 2010 8:23 PM	yes baby yes.!!(looks around to see if anyone saw)(serious face) Could be a worthwhile game to have a look at
mohawk Feb 21, 2010 5:56 PM	I'll be stuffed! I can't wait for this. I am a huge CIV fan.
Count Feb 23, 2010 12:25 PM	I would have figured hex would be a bad move, it reduced the number of adjacent movements for a square from 8 to 6.
rayz0r Feb 25, 2010 7:30 AM	I'm a fan too, so definitely looking forward to it. -Sigh- I suppose it means I'll finally have to install Steam... I don't think even Civ would be sufficient to induce me to type Facebook's URL into my address bar though.

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