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Sid Meier’s Civilization VI

October 20, 2016
Simulation Strategy Metacritic 88

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The sixth installment in Sid Meier’s Civilization series. Like in all previous Civilization games, the player controls one of eighteen unique historical civilizations, builds its cities, explores the hexagonal map of the world, researches technologies, develops his country's culture, establishes relationships with other civilizations and wages wars. All the traditional victory types are in place, and a new one, religious, is introduced. A distinct new feature in the sixth part is that city improvements are no more concentrated in each city's only main tile. Instead, they are distributed throughout its whole surrounding area. Each of them is now considered a "district" with a specific purpose, and some of them should be built only on specific terrain. Similarly, wonders now occupy tiles on their own. Technology tree was also modified to take into account the player's terrain improvements that may speed up the research of certain technologies. Cultural achievements, such as Opera or Drama, are no more considered "technologies" and form a separate Civics research tree instead. Also, unlike most of its predecessors, Civilization VI allows stacking similar types of military units.

System requirements

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Minimum requirements

Processor
Intel Core i3 2
Graphics
1 GB & AMD 5570 or nVidia 450 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 12 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Device Additional Notes: Initial installation requires one-time Internet connection for Steam authentication; software installations required (included with the game) include Ste
Memory
4 GB RAM
VRAM
1 GB
Storage
12 GB
OS
Windows 7x64 / Windows 8

Recommended requirements

Processor
Fourth Generation Intel Core i5 2
Graphics
2GB & AMD 7970 or nVidia 770 or greater DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 12 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Device
Memory
8 GB RAM
VRAM
2 GB
Storage
12 GB
OS
Windows 7x64 / Windows 8

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