Civ 5

I have always loved playing Civilization since it first came out. Some Civ versions were better than others, I do have to say that IMO Civ 5 is probably the best game I have played. The advancements that have been added only make this game even better and even more complex when having to deal with different countries and ideologies. This game also helps to give you an idea as to just how complicated it truly can be to rise up from the primitive beginings of basic survival, to the advancement of science and technologies that get us to space travel without destroying each other and the planet first. It is a brilliant game, and I do have to take my hat off to Mr Sid Meier for taking on such an almost impossible task of re creating all the Civilizations that survived to this day and the other great Civilizations that eventually fell for one reason or another. The possibilities are endless to the eventual outcome of every game. That being submitted to this review, I do have to get to my criticisms of Civ 5 unfortunately. The major problem I have with this game since the first version came out, is that it crashes on me or freezes on me and usually at the most critical times. I never can seem to finish Civ 5 because it crashes almost every time or about 5 minutes after I have loaded my saved game. These crashes usually happen depending on how advanced you and the other players get later in the game. For example I have been playing for almost three weeks now with two allied countries, and the computer also with two allied countries. I have aquired all the sciences from the science tree and have nuclear capability so does the computer and its allies. I was on turn 888 after fighting a never ending bitter war with , Germany , Rome, and Japan. My allies England and Russia had been able to fight them for years holding them back why I resupplied them with newer weapons and better technologies. The planet was raveged by nuclear weapons until they were finally banned and just as I thought i might get the upper hand, the whole system took a dump and crashed. Now the game crashes all the time before I get to even make one turn. Again Im pretty late into the game but this always seems to happen in every version of Civ I have had. It has always been a buggy game, but now Im thinking that maybe its getting too complex for the computer to even handle. Plus Im dying to see the end for once and its becoming a very aggravating game!

Matty-The Wanderer about Civilization® V