I have played the game for several hours this afternoon and after getting incredibly bored with the training tutorial as it wouldn't let me kill one of my allies (I knocked him down and then my Catapults proved ineffective - game forces you to not kill allies when training? ).
I then started a normal game, actually understanding the basics of growth and exploration and after a couple of hours (I think) I was still too unprogressed to have any battles and just found it far too slow to get going and unrewarding on the process to advance through the game.
I think that it shall retire and sit in my game drawer, until I need a coaster, whereby it will come back and have its use.
Anyone else as dissapointed as me? I would like to comment I have never played a Civ game before so this is not a gripe in relation to others in the series, I'm sure Civ lovers find it awesome, but my above question is posed to those who have this as their first Civ experience?
This is my first Civ experience but I've played turn based strategy games before now. Napoleon Total War is exactly the same idea but has nowhere near the amount of depth Civ provides.
I, too, found it handy to think of it like "ticks" rather than turns.
I'm usually far more into games like Age of Empires, Command and Conquer, etc, but I do appreciate the vast number of possibilities in Civ V.
I will say one thing I am slightly dissapointed by and that is the graphics. They're "nice" - But nowhere near as good as the likes of Anno. I'm running the game on high settings for everything but still don't think it looks all that impressive (that said, the game has a lot more depth than the likes of Anno, having spectacular graphics is probably asking too much)
You need a really, really open mind with a game like Civ, because the turn based gameplay is so vastly different to the fluidity of a real time strategy game.