

You will control your civilization’s destiny by guiding it down a series of choices for what things you want to spend your time researching, the types of structures you want to build, and the type of government you want to have. You can focus on brute strength or technological might. You can embrace the arts or lead a militarized civilization hell-bent on physical dominance. You’ll seek out new lands, plan your cities, and create districts within them that give you bonus points in different strategic areas. Civilization VI allows you to control each and every aspect of your civilization as you vye for power against competing AI civilization leaders or online opponents. There have been smart changes made between the last game and this one, and it’s simply one of the most engrossing types of these games if just for the sheer amount of control you have in taking your starting tribe and transitioning it into a world dominating super power. Civilization VI is arguably the best the series has ever been. If you’ve never played a Civilization game before, you’ve missed out on one of the best strategy game franchises in history. It is essentially the same interface and control scheme, though there is online play on these versions of the game (something that the Switch version lacked at launch). What we have here with the PlayStation and Xbox versions of Civilization VI is basically what we saw last year when the game released on the Switch. That said, with the removal of some of those console specific features that the last entry (Revolution) had, this game can be a bit more complex.
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The Xbox One version (and presumably the PS4 version) plays almost identically to the PC release, allowing you to build a sprawling civilization across numerous game modes with many cultures and leaders to control. Few sacrifices seem to have been made to get the game to consoles. Unlike the streamlined release of Civ Revolution, this latest is the full-fledged console version of Civilization VI. Looks and plays almost identically to vanilla Civ VI After putting Civilization VI through it’s paces on the Xbox One, it’s unclear what has taken so long to get this beloved turn-based strategy game back on consoles. Since that release we’ve seen two mainline Civilization games arrive in Civilization V (2010) and Civilization VI (2016). The maps were smaller, the games were much quicker, it was a Civ for consoles for better in few places and more often than not worse.

While I remember plenty of friends swearing by the console version of this game, what I remember of it was a watered down version of the game I had been playing on PC for some time. Civilization Revolution wasn’t a numbered Civilization release, it kind of did some unique things to make it work on the platforms. We have to look all the way back to the Xbox 360 for the release of Civilization Revolution, a game that was well received at the time of release, when strategy games were less common on the Xbox or PlayStation platforms. It’s been quite some time since console gamers have gotten their hands on a Civilization game.
