Civilization V!!

[frogbeastegg]

Watching civ 5 in action though, I tell you, it's very tempting to give it another chance.

Demo is due on Tuesday, which is also the US launch day. Why not give it a go?

Europeans have to wait until Friday for the release but still get the demo on Tuesday, in case anyone was wondering.

233 pages, good god. I wonder if they are including a printed version with the boxed game, I might break my habit of ordering through digital distribution and order from Amazon if that was the case.

Nope. They're being cheap enviromentally friendly. No paper documentation at all in any version. They have said that they will update the manual PDF so it's always accurate if patches or extra content change anything. That should be good.

If you're looking at a download version, direct2drive currently has the best deal. Same price as on steam but with the first DLC pack for free when it arrives and a free copy of Civ 3 complete (dubious merit). Simply take the CD key they give you, plug it into steam, and sit back as you preload. The DLC pack contains two new civs and one scenario according to the description; nothing further is known except that there will be a month or two delay between launch and DLC. Again, a keycode will be emailed out to you for use in steam. If you're in America there's a $5 off voucher, PAX2010. It doesn't work for the rest of the world :sad froggy: