It had a lot of glamour and more than enough to entertain the casual player, or the less exigent strategy gamer. But, the game was accessible as never before. The original Civ5 release was essentially a Civ game turned into a simple wargame where the AI performed quite badly. The worst of it all was the overall boredom feeling (not much to do), the completely erratic diplomacy (to say the least) and the very poor AI performance on the battlefield. It worked out to some extent, but in the end of the day the experience was just not good enough to entertain the most demanding fans of the series.

Its innovative systems, namely the City-States, the 1UPT (1 unit per tile) and the mysterious more “Human-like” diplomacy, were interesting in theory, but ended up being poorly executed for the most part. Released in 2010, Civilization 5 was probably one of the worst installments of the entire Civilization series.