Cities now grow on the map more organically, with Districts sprawling out and taking up a hex where buildings were previously ‘stacked’. This is true whether you’re playing on a beastly ultra-wide monitor or a smartphone, and while your window on the world is smaller on Switch, Aspyr has done sterling work scaling controls to work on the touchscreen or TV, keeping text and UI readable.Įven if you’re well-versed in Civ’s way of doing things, assumed knowledge won’t always hold you in good stead. Unit automation might seem convenient but can lead to unwelcome surprises when scouts bungle into hostile territory while you’re knee-deep in city renovations. The bigger picture is tough to keep in mind when you fix your sights on specific goals. You can delve through menus finding out what gets them riled up – why exactly do I disgust Teddy Roosevelt so? Sending delegates and envoys will keep you up to date on hearsay, too. Getting to know their quirks is one of the game’s pleasures. The leaders themselves are a delightfully animated, capricious bunch of caricatures, switching from jovial to spiteful at the drop of a hat – just as they should. ‘Trays’ on either side of the screen slide open with ‘L’ and ‘R’ revealing icons for tech and civics trees – it’s here where you steer development, enact policies, set agendas and contact the various leaders you meet through diplomatic channels with offers of friendship, trade or declarations of war. With a unit selected, a larger info box appears that can obscure the field – you’ll be making adjustments if you’re eager to watch animations play out.
The D-buttons navigate a unit-control bar on the bottom right.
Hitting ‘-‘ toggles tool tips, as does holding your finger on any icon. Zoom is handled on the Z-triggers with the camera on the right stick and standard pinch-to-zoom on the touchscreen.
There’s a lot of information to take in at first. The whole game looks fantastically polished and detailed. As your capital city grows, that pool bleeds out, expanding your view of surroundings. Ye olde blank parchment replaces the ‘fog’ from previous entries a pool of colour follows your units, leaving settlements and landmarks inked on the map, a simple, beautiful effect. The reassuring and inimitable Sean Bean provided a rousing endorsement of our colonialism as the map loaded and we soon set about building units, harvesting resources from surrounding hexes and sending out scouts from London to explore the hexagonal world. Things like map size and game speed are easily tailored to suit your mood, and bespoke scenarios give you more options if you want a quicker empire-building fix.įrom a choice of 24 available civilizations – each with bespoke buffs, buildings and an emblematic (not to mention immortal) leader – we went for Queen Victoria. Newcomers will likely botch their civ into a dead-end long before they hit the ADs, so a cordoned-off tutorial gives a decent overview. Cunning!įiraxis offers plenty of alternatives to the standard game. Failing that, you can conquer other civilization’s capital cities and win through military guile alone. You’ll create settlers, builders and military units that evolve over time, expanding your hex empire and hopefully dominating the world through Culture, Religion or Science. A standard 500-turn game takes you from 4000BC to 2050AD on a curve that races through early history and slows as you approach modern times.
#Civilization vi ps4 review series#
An advisor offers optional tips depending on whether you’re a complete series virgin, new to this specific game or just the Switch version. Beyond a few small issues, it feels at home on Switch and joins a growing stable of impressive ports to the Nintendo's platform.Īnd it could have gone so wrong! Civ is a massive beast with a long history which just gets more complex as you peel back layers, but VI does well onboarding all-comers.
#Civilization vi ps4 review full#
The world’s premiere 4X strategy game has finally landed on Switch! It promises the real deal – the full Civilization VI experience – distilled to handheld form, and it’s a relief to report that Aspyr has done a fine job squeezing Firaxis’ game onto the hybrid console.
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