Product Description Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods and Kings is the first expansion pack for Civilization V - the critically acclaimed 2011 Mac Game of the Year. This robust expansion covers the entire scope of time from founding your first Pantheon of the Gods and spreading religion across the world, to deploying your spies in enemy cities in order to steal information and technology. As you move through the ages, you’ll interact with new types of city-states, engage in new city-state quests and global competitions, and master exciting new systems for land and naval combat. Civilization V: Gods and Kings will also include nine new civilizations, nine new wonders, three original scenarios, and dozens of new units, buildings, and techs that will offer even more ways for players to expand their empire and dominate the world. .com Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods and Kings is the first official expansion pack for the Turn-Based Strategy game, Sid Meier's Civilization V .* It features the introduction of religion as a major gameplay component to the game, through a faith-based mechanism. It also adds additional diplomatic abilities to those found in the base game. Additional features include, a variety of benefit types for the establishment and adoption of religion, spies that both level with mission completion and that can be a liability if captured, several new playable civilizations, improved battle abilities, and new units, buildings and wonders. Expanded Power with Religion and Enhanced Diplomacy The Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods and Kings expansion pack* introduces the power of religion and improved diplomatic abilities to Civilization V . Religion, used as a major tool, was left out of the 2010 base game release, but now joins culture, technology, diplomacy, and warfare as the fifth pillar of the game's turn-based statecraft and empire building game mechanic. Use of religion begins during a civilization's infantcy, with the player interweaving select core beliefs with particular realities of their civilization. This in turn unifies people and generates faith, setting the stage for the emergence of unit's like The Great Prophet, Missionaries and The Inquisitor, along with the founding of a religion. Religions available initially correlate to actual world religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Shinto, etc., but they are designed to be renamed and customized with player chosen tenets. Civilizations that found religions enjoy certain exclusive benefits, while a later series of benefits connected to a religion can be enjoyed by any civilization that is converted to it. This includes rival civilizations. As the timeline of the game progresses to the renaissance and beyond, religion becomes less important, but remains a surprisingly powerful tool. Introduces religion to Civ V statecraft gameplay tactics. View larger Improved use of spies allows for even more in-depth strategy. View larger The Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods and Kings expansion pack also improves on the base game's use of diplomacy, especially in the area of espionage. With spies players can do a wide range of things, including steal technologies, provide intelligence, rig elections, and even counter the actions of foreign spies planted domestically in their own cities. New Unit Battle Abilities and New Civilzations Although religion and diplomacy are potent tools of state craft, war is inevitable. This is why Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods and Kings includes expanded abilities to units in battle. Improvements include: expanded general health of units to ensure more time for strategy and changes to forces during exchanges, the inclusion of early multi-winged aircraft, expanded offensive abilities of naval units pitted against other ships and against land tagets, and improved defensive abilities of ground units during transport by sea. Gods and Kings also includes additional civilization not included in the initial release of the base game. In many cases, following the theme of the expansion pack these new peoples possess an extreme potential for influence by/and manipulation of religion. A sampling of the new civilizations available include, the Celts lead by Boudicca, the warrior queen of the proto-British Iceni tribe, and the Maya featuring Pacal the Great the long-time ruler of the powerful city-state of Palenque. System RequirementsMinimumOperating System: 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7.4 (Lion)CPU Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core)CPU Speed: 2.4 GHzMemory: 2 GB RAMHard Disk Space: 8 GBVideo Card (ATI): Radeon HD2600Video Card (NVidia): Geforce 8600Video Memory (VRam): 256 MBPeripherals: Macintosh mouse and keyboardSupported Video Cards:NVIDIA GeForce® 8600, 8800, 9600M, GT 120, 320M, 330MATI Radeon HD 2600, HD 3870, HD 4670, HD 4850, HD 5670, HD 5750, HD 5770, HD 5870, HD 6490, HD 6750RecommendedCPU Processor: Intel Quad CoreCPU Speed: 2.6 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAMVideo Memory (VRam): 512MBNoticesApple original CPU's only, CPU upgrades not supported.Apple Intel Chipsets only. Power PC Processors (G4 and G5) are not supported.With the exception of the Intel HD 3000, Intel(r) integrated video chipsets are not supported.This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive)Key Game Features Introduces religion, wielded through faith, as a crucial tool of the state into the Civilization V game franchise A multi-layered belief system that allows for civilization-specific benefits, as well as benefits to any game civilization holding that beliefChanging benefits to religion depending on the time period of the gameAn improved diplomacy and espionage component that allows for technology theft, foreign intelligence and election rigging, and domestic counter espionageImproved capabilities of battle units including, improved general health, the inclusion of early aircraft, and expanded abilities of naval and ground unitsSeveral new civilizations available for play, including Celtic - featuring the warrior queen of the proto-British Iceni tribe Boudicca, and Mayan, featuring Pacal the Great the longtime ruler of PalenqueMany new units, buildings and wondersAdditional Screenshots Improved unit capabilities. View larger New playable civilizations. View larger New units, buildings & wonders. View larger Addictive turn-based gameplay. View larger * Sid Meier's Civilization V -- sold separately -- is required for play. Product Description Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods and Kings is the first expansion pack for Civilization V. This robust expansion covers the entire scope of time from founding your first Pantheon of the Gods and spreading religion across the world, to deploying your spies in enemy cities in order to steal information and technology. As you move through the ages, you’ll interact with new types of city-states, engage in new city-state quests and global competitions, and master exciting new systems for land and naval combat. Civilization V: Gods and Kings will also include nine new civilizations, nine new wonders, three original scenarios, and dozens of new units, buildings, and techs that will offer even more ways for players to expand their empire and dominate the world.
D**L
I recommend it to all my friends
I have been playing Civ since Civ I and it is the only computer game I continue to find keeps my interest. It is so variable, I find I play a different game every time. Am looking forward to Civ VI if they ever do it. I recommend it to all my friends.
A**D
Addictive as ever
I have had every Civilization game since the first and this one is great.It looks fantastic and is a great balance of challenge and fun.Make sure whatever machine you're going to be playing it on has enough power.
B**R
Beware of Steam Sofware
Not mentioned in the description is that the product disc requires you to be registered on Steam to install the game on your Mac. Since I value my anonymity and privacy, I bought this as a disc set rather than downloading it from Steam hoping that I could escape that omnipotent evil eye. What a surprise to find that Steam's parent, Valve, seems to have a stranglehold monopoly on gaming. If you already have registered on Steam, agreed to their privacy statements, DLA, paid the fees, etc., etc., then you may enjoy this expansion to Civ V. As for me, I am just glad that I'm only out a few bucks.
J**N
do not order
The keyed for this game had been previously used and made the game worthless. I returned it for a refund.
R**Y
Buyer beware
Only works if you bought the original game through steam. Wrote customer support who said I would have to ask for a refund for the original game. Wasn't worth returning this one.
S**E
I am not an angry nerd - I like Civilization V
I've been playing Civilization since Civ III. Loved Civ III. Didn't care for Civ IV so much. Civ V is good. So they changed some stuff like no more stacking units, and certain units are more vulnerable now, but hey, Civ V is still a fun game and the differences make you play the game differently, which I find refreshing, and worth buying.When I see these other angry reviews about the changes in Civ V, I chuckle. Go back to playing the version you like best then and spare us the vitriol.
N**1
Awesome, with just a few small issues
This game was what I expected it would be and have enjoyed it significantly! However, on my macbook pro it had a tendency to freeze. There are a few ways to get around this, though. First, lower all the graphics settings to low or minimum. Second, play on the lower resolution. Third, if you are playing on Steam, always play in the pop-up window as opposed to full screen. These will prevent the game from freezing on you. Still, I'd recommend setting the game to autosave as frequently as possible, just in case.But, of course, once you get around that, this is one of the best games I have played.
D**G
I'm sure I would love the game If I could actually play it...
I've played Civ IV for a while and absolutely loved it so I decided to get Civ V, and bought it through Mac app store. Really enjoyed that and thought Okay, I'll get the expansion. So I did, and apparently even though it says nothing whatsoever about it on the amazon page (at least not that I could find) the expansion requires steam to download. When I went to try and activate it, apparently its incompatible with the base game I bought....
