Awesome, yet VERY CPU demanding
Lets get main question out of the door: YESSS, it worth the money. But, as usual, there are "some" problems:
1) Civ5 is not scalable - you can have 4/6/8/12 CPU cores, but it will use only 1-1.5 CPU cores at most => if youre Civ5 fan you ought to have THE FASTEST CPU in order to get maximum possible performance per single CPU core. THIS IS VERY BAD - developers SHOULD pay attention to this deficiency;
2) Civ5 for OSX is slow with GPUs - I tried it on GTX285, ATI6770, GTX680 - with little variations it is reallty slow when set to highest graphics settings;
3) Related to #1 - as game progresses, it takes more and more time to complete AI moves - again, multiple CPU cores seeem to have ZERO efect on this calcs. VERY FRUSTRATING.
So, while its a greate game, there are certain cave-eats you have to live with - be prepared, patient, and you will be rewarded for being humble in your expectations ;-)
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Civilization® V, v1.3.1