- Features -.
- Introduces hexagon tiles allowing for deeper strategy, more realistic gameplay and stunning landscapes for players to explore as they expand their empire.
- Brand new engine orchestrates a spectacular visual experience featuring fully animated leaders interacting with players from a screen-filling diplomatic scene and speaking in their native language for the first time.
- Manage relationships with other leaders, trading items and land, plying them with gold, and decide if they are friend or foe.
- Offers a limitless variety of vast, realistic and diverse landscapes for players.
From the Manufacturer
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Sid Meier's Civilization V Mac: Game of the Year Edition is the
fifth offering in the multi-award winning Civilization turn-based
strategy game series. As with earlier installments in the series,
Civilization V features the famous "just one more turn" addictive
gameplay that has made it one of the greatest game series of all
time. In addition to this it also features improved diplomacy,
new ranged combat over a hex oriented board rather than squares,
an in-game community hub facilitating improved online play and
more. Included in the updated Game of the Year base version of
the original Civ V game is over $40 in bonus and digital content.
A Legendary Franchise Reborn
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With over nine million units sold worldwide, and unprecedented
critical accl from fans and press around the world, Sid
Meier's Civilization is recognized as one of the greatest
strategy franchises of all-time. Now, with Sid Meier's
Civilization V , Firaxis Games takes this incredibly fun and
addictive strategy game to unprecedented heights by adding new
ways to play and win, new tools to manage and expand your
civilization, extensive modding capabilities and intensely
competitive multiplayer options.
Civilization V comes to life in a beautifully detailed, living
world that will elevate the gameplay experience to a whole new
level making it a must-have for gamers around the globe. In
Civilization V , players strive to become Ruler of the World by
establishing and leading a civilization from the dawn of man into
the space age, waging war, conducting diplomacy, discovering new
technologies, going head-to-head with some of history's greatest
leaders and building the most powerful empire the world has ever
known.
18 civilizations to choose from.
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New hex oriented expansion tiles.
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Diplomacy and large-scale battles.
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Familiar deep advice system.
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Playable Civilizations
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Civilization V features 18 playable civilizations chosen from
every corner of the globe and from pivotal points in history.
Each of these features a charismatic and historic leader who
speaks in his/her native tongue, while their forces possess
special abilities and units. The culture of each civilization
will evolve, with players unlocking and adopting social policies
over time, which bring benefits and improvements appropriate to
the stage of civilization achieved to that point. Playable
civilizations include:
* America
* Arabia
* Aztec
* China
* Egypt
* England
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* India
* Iroquois
* Japan
* Ottoman
* Persia
* Rome
* Russia
* Siam
* Songhai
Key Game Features
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* Civilization V Mac introduces hexagon tiles allowing for deeper
strategy, more realistic gameplay and stunning landscapes
for players to explore as they expand their empire.
* The brand new engine orchestrates a spectacular visual
experience featuring fully animated leaders interacting with
players from a screen-filling diplomatic scene and speaking in
their native language for the first time.
* Successful diplomacy will depend on players carefully managing
relationships with other leaders, trading items and land, plying
them with gold, and deciding if they are friend or foe.
* Expanded visuals and immersive audio invite would-be kings to
take up the reigns of power and forge a mighty empire.
Civilization V offers a limitless variety of vast, realistic and
diverse landscapes for players.
* An intuitive interface eases both new players and Civ veterans
into the game. Guided by a set of trusted advisors who will
explain game functionality and provide counsel for significant
decisions.
* Wars between empires feel massive as armies dominate the
landscape, and combat is more exciting and intense than ever
before.
* The addition of ranged bombardment allows players to fire
weapons from behind the front lines, challenging players to
develop clever new strategies to guarantee victory on the
battlefield.
* Write your own epic story each time you play. Choose one of
eighteen historical civilizations to lead from the stone-age to
the space age on your quest to build the world's most powerful
empire.
Game of the Year Edition Bonus Content Included
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Sid Meier's Civilization V Game of the Year Edition comes over
$40 worth of DLC (downloadable content) and bonus content packs
to enhance and extend your gameplay. These extras include:
* Civilization Pack: Babylon
* All 4 'Cradle of Civilization' Packs (Mesopotamia, Asia,
The Mediterranean and The Americas)
* Double Civilization and Scenario Pack: Spain and Inca
* Civilization and Scenario Pack: Polynesia
* Civilization and Scenario Pack: Denmark - The Vikings
* Explorer's Pack
System Requirements
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Minimum Requirements
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* Operating System - 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion)
* CPU Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo (Dual-Core)
* CPU Speed - 2.4 GHz
* Memory - 2 GB RAM
* Hard Disk Space - 8 GB
* Video Card (ATI) - Radeon HD 2600
* Video Card (NVidia) - Geforce 8600
* Video Memory (VRam) - 256MB
* Media Required - DVD-ROM
* Peripherals - Macintosh mouse & keyboard
Recommended Requirements
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* CPU Speed - 2.6 GHz
* Memory - 4 GB RAM
* Video Memory (VRam) - 512MB
* Apple original CPU’s only, CPU upgrades not supported.
Supported Video Cards
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* NVIDIA GeForce® 8600, 8800, 9600M, GT 120, 320M, 330M
* ATI Radeon HD 2600, HD 3870, HD 4670, HD 4850, HD 5670, HD
5750, HD 5770, HD 5870, HD 6630, HD 6750, HD 6970
* Intel HD Graphics 3000
Notices
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Apple Intel Chipsets only. Power PC Processors (G4 and G5) are
not supported.
Intel(r) integrated video chipsets are not supported.
This game is not supported on volumes formatted as Mac OS
Extended (Case Sensitive).