Review after finishing one round that took 20 hours. Overall the gameplay seems ok but the ending felt underwhelming and abrupt due to only 3 ages being available. This game lacks the final age, which i guess will likely come via a DLC. Will recommend the game but only just.

Game settings:
- Viceroy difficulty
- Standard speed
- Fractal Map
- Used Benjamin Franklin

Good:
- Combat is fun and much improved from previous version
- Graphics looks good
- Seems to have lots of replayability with the different leaders, civilisations and legacy paths.

Can be improved:
Religion
- Gameplay is weak. It seems to disappear in the modern age. Cities are easily converted by missionaries and it can be annoying to keep on converting your cities back.
- UI isn't great to know which tiles are urban and rural as you need to convert both to fully spread the religion in the city/town.
- Can't convert if city is holy city or being razed but you can't tell easily from the map.

Legacy path
- Insufficient info on how to complete the mission (e.g. placing specialists outside of city centers, what does that mean?)
- Explanation on how to complete the mission must be better. Civlopedia doesn't provide sufficient info.

UI
- No way to know which tile is urban/rural or district/quarter just by looking at the map. Overall a lack of map lens as compared to previous game.
- Doesn't tell you the yield you lose if you overbuild or what the new overall yield of the tile will be.
- Unique quarters need 2 buildings on the same tile but after you built the first one, when trying to build the second building it doesn't remind you where the first one was placed so you need to hover over all tiles to find it.
- You are not told what was your city's previous production so either you have to remember or just live with it.

Game settings
- Serious lack of settings to choose and customise your game. What happened to the abundance of settings from the previous games?

Others
- World and natural wonders seems to be few and far between in the game and choices are not the typical, famous ones.
- No way to deal with natural disasters like the previous games (e.g. building barriers)
- No missiles/nuclear weapons. Well, there is the operation ivy/Manhattan project but only if you go down thee militaristic legacy paths, which you might not want to do so during your gameplay. I finished with an economic victory well before the Manhattan project was completed.

Review after finishing one round that took 20 hours. Overall the gameplay seems ok but the ending felt underwhelming and abrupt due to only 3 ages being available. This game lacks the final age, which i guess will likely come via a DLC. Will recommend the game but only just. Game settings: - Viceroy difficulty - Standard speed - Fractal Map - Used Benjamin Franklin Good: - Combat is fun and much improved from previous version - Graphics looks good - Seems to have lots of replayability with the different leaders, civilisations and legacy paths. [u]Can be improved:[/u] [b]Religion[/b] - Gameplay is weak. It seems to disappear in the modern age. Cities are easily converted by missionaries and it can be annoying to keep on converting your cities back. - UI isn't great to know which tiles are urban and rural as you need to convert both to fully spread the religion in the city/town. - Can't convert if city is holy city or being razed but you can't tell easily from the map. [b]Legacy path[/b] - Insufficient info on how to complete the mission (e.g. placing specialists outside of city centers, what does that mean?) - Explanation on how to complete the mission must be better. Civlopedia doesn't provide sufficient info. [b]UI[/b] - No way to know which tile is urban/rural or district/quarter just by looking at the map. Overall a lack of map lens as compared to previous game. - Doesn't tell you the yield you lose if you overbuild or what the new overall yield of the tile will be. - Unique quarters need 2 buildings on the same tile but after you built the first one, when trying to build the second building it doesn't remind you where the first one was placed so you need to hover over all tiles to find it. - You are not told what was your city's previous production so either you have to remember or just live with it. [b]Game settings[/b] - Serious lack of settings to choose and customise your game. What happened to the abundance of settings from the previous games? [b]Others[/b] - World and natural wonders seems to be few and far between in the game and choices are not the typical, famous ones. - No way to deal with natural disasters like the previous games (e.g. building barriers) - No missiles/nuclear weapons. Well, there is the operation ivy/Manhattan project but only if you go down thee militaristic legacy paths, which you might not want to do so during your gameplay. I finished with an economic victory well before the Manhattan project was completed.