February 2022 • Macworld 101cities that you can move around each
planet’s oceans.
We’d recommend that you buy it on
Steam rather than the App Store, as
the Steam version includes a multi-
player option as well as the basic
single-player game.
- Civilization V:
Brave New World
Price: £19.99 from fave.co/3IB664l
The Civilization strategy games’ basic
formula remains the same: you start
with a bunch of cavemen and progress
through history to create a civilization
that will rule the world. But the Civ
series has long since passed the point
where all you had to do was build up
a big army. Civilization V beefed up
the diplomacy elements and the Gods
and Kings expansion pack added
religion to the mix. Brave New World
adds even more depth.
There are nine new civilizations,
including Portugal, Morocco, Brazil
and the Zulus, but the real substance
in Brave New World lies in the new
cultural and ideological systems. The
‘Culture Victory’, for instance, is a new
way of conquering the world, whereby
nations can place musicians, writers
and artists in key buildings, such as
the Globe Theatre in London.
There’s combat aplenty if that’s
how you like your strategy games,
but the political, religious and cultural
elements that it adds to the mix
create a game in which you really can
develop an entire civilization, rather
than just building up a big army.50.