This might seem like a silly question, but it's not. Question #1: How will the new development team function? I can't resist approaching Civ5 the same way, knowing full well the incomplete and limited information available to the public at the moment! Question everything, poke and prod and tweak the gameplay to make sure that there aren't any glaring errors. But it's not intended as an attack on the Firaxians (who I'm sure know what they are doing) rather, it's the same analytical mindset that I used when doing QA testing for Civ4. Now as such, a lot of this is going to sound negative and critical. I'll be concentrating on gameplay, the meat and potatoes of a turn-based strategy game, so I won't be wasting time on why civ or leader X is or isn't included, what the graphics look like, how many units can "realistically" fit onto one tile, or any of the nonsense that constitutes the majority of the discussion at CivFanatics. I'm going to list five open questions that I hope are being addressed, so that we can look back at these later and see where I was right and where I was wrong. Since I worked on the last game, I have some idea of the kind of challenges that the current development team must be facing right now. As someone who worked intimately in the development of Civ4 - and who has no involvement in creating Civ5 - I thought it might be fun to provide an outsider's perspective on the info leaked out to the public so far. Now that the first round of previews have been released to the public, we have at least some idea of what kind of game we'll be getting when the whole shebang releases later this year. The announcement of Civ5 came as somewhat of a surprise even though it was logical to expect another game in the series, Firaxis Games (the developer) had been pretty tight-lipped about keeping a wraps on their project.
Outside of us few direhards still playing new games of Civ4, most attention has turned to the upcoming arrival of its sequel sometime this Fall. Well folks, Civ4 is entering its fifth year on the market, and starting to get long in the tooth. They should be rather interesting to look back at now that we know how Civ5 ultimately turned out. With the game long out and clearly an underwhelming result, I decided to go ahead and post these thoughts rather than let them languish forever. I held off on publishing them until now, because I did not want to unfairly influence readers about Civ5 with limited information until the game itself released. I typed up these thoughts in June of 2010, right around the time of the E3 interviews surrounding Civ5.
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