Firaxis has announced the sixth part of the cult turn-based strategy game Civilization.
“Everything that the players in Civilization loved in the fifth part, we will transfer [to the sixth part] in addition to the new gameplay,” Dennis Shirk, the game’s lead designer, told The Verge.
Among the key innovations:
- the growth of cities on the map (key areas will be able to get their own tile, until this happens, some of the buildings in the city will not be available for construction);
- the location of the cities will influence the research (a city near the sea is a bonus to the study of navigation);
- historical figures in the game will try to match the behavior of real characters;
- new engine.
By the way, the engine was mentioned once. Graphically, the game has moved away from conventional realism towards a bright, five-minute cartoon palette.
The release of the new game is scheduled for October 21, 2016. Whether we should wait for new mobile versions in connection with its announcement is an open question.
The fifth part of the game, we recall, was released in 2010. Its total sales amounted to 8 million copies. All parts of Civilization have sold 33 million boxes in the 25 years of the series’ existence.
Source: The Verge