
Lets get the mediocre stuff out of the way first. Regardless of your opinion on this, the Brave New World expansion restores much of the depth the series had lost in Civ 5, whilst simultaneously retaining a simplicity and elegance that can only come from the most masterful of gameplay designs. Civilization 5 wasn’t the same though, shedding many of the series’ deeper mechanics in favour of simplifying the formula.

There was also that time I nearly failed my A levels during a particular Civ 4 addiction, something I won’t forgive Sid Meier for any time soon. It has been there as long as I can remember and, for every great memory I have of us spending hours together, there are just as many where we didn’t speak for lengthy periods.
