Seeing it as it's own game, it's an okay 4X turn based strategy. If you've never played a Civ game, it's alright, I guess.

The majority of the hate comes down to two things, which both I agree with. The first point is that as an entry to the Civilization franchise, it's pretty weak: the district system is... interesting, but I wouldn't neccisarily call anything an improvment since the last entry to Civ, just... different. It's a good game, but it doesn't have a soul.

The second reason being the malicious DLC pricing and releasing. The unfortunate trend of "Triple A" games being priced at $60 dollars has infected the new Civ entry. Likewise, 2K has decided to also emulate the practice of DLCs with barely any content for $5, only containing a single civilization. For those who didn't want to pay almost one hundred dollars on a single game, the DLC amounts to another half a game at the time of this review, and more is to come. While it sounds like a good idea to put each civ in it's own DLC (only buy the one you want, right?), all it does is make people want to purchase NONE of the DLCs, as 6 dollars for what's equivlant to a new face, a single unit, maybe one building, and a special ability for that face doesn't sound particuarlly interesting, especially since you will probably play that civ once (maybe twice if you're an acheivement hunter).

I dunno, I don't like the direction where Civ 6 and Beyond Earth is painting the Civilization series, but I'm keeping hope for now. By all means by the game if it looks interesting, and if you enjoy it, I'm glad you got more fun out of it than I did. It isn't even bad, it just isn't great, which is what I had come to expect from the Civilization series.

Seeing it as it's own game, it's an okay 4X turn based strategy. If you've never played a Civ game, it's alright, I guess. The majority of the hate comes down to two things, which both I agree with. The first point is that as an entry to the Civilization franchise, it's pretty weak: the district system is... interesting, but I wouldn't neccisarily call anything an improvment since the last entry to Civ, just... different. It's a good game, but it doesn't have a soul. The second reason being the malicious DLC pricing and releasing. The unfortunate trend of "Triple A" games being priced at $60 dollars has infected the new Civ entry. Likewise, 2K has decided to also emulate the practice of DLCs with barely any content for $5, only containing a single civilization. For those who didn't want to pay almost one hundred dollars on a single game, the DLC amounts to another half a game at the time of this review, and more is to come. While it sounds like a good idea to put each civ in it's own DLC (only buy the one you want, right?), all it does is make people want to purchase NONE of the DLCs, as 6 dollars for what's equivlant to a new face, a single unit, maybe one building, and a special ability for that face doesn't sound particuarlly interesting, especially since you will probably play that civ once (maybe twice if you're an acheivement hunter). I dunno, I don't like the direction where Civ 6 and Beyond Earth is painting the Civilization series, but I'm keeping hope for now. By all means by the game if it looks interesting, and if you enjoy it, I'm glad you got more fun out of it than I did. It isn't even bad, it just isn't great, which is what I had come to expect from the Civilization series.