CIVILIZATION VI GATHERING STORM REVIEW FULL

These are a great, never-before-seen (unless you count Civ IV’s random events) addition that, with the exception of generally less-destructive storms and droughts, are telegraphed clearly enough that they rarely feel like they’re coming out of left field to go full Pompeii on you. It was a refreshingly distinctive set of priorities.ĭisasters bring an important element of the real world to Civ VI.Gathering Storm’s titular feature, though, is its natural disasters. However, they get major production bonuses to unimproved forests and rainforests, and to fishing boats, which can make their developed territory look very different from any other civilization’s. The Maori are also incapable of permanently harvesting resources and can’t recruit great writers, which are significant limitations.

Mansa Musa of Mali is up a similar creek if he has no desert tiles in cities from which to send his traders for extra gold, and Pachacuti of the Inca without mountain tiles to mine for production is like a fish out of water.įor my first full game, I played (on King difficulty) as Kupe of the Maori, who starts on the ocean with sailing technology unlocked – which is great except that you have to spend a few turns looking for dry land, which can set you behind the pack. A couple are probably a little too specialized to be practical unless you’re playing a very specific scenario: Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier, for instance, is great if you happen to start at the north or south of the map, but his ability to build farms on tundra means he’s out of his element in the tropics.

Most of the new civs and leaders are more than versatile and appealing: Suleiman of the Ottomans gets a unique governor, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary can turn city-states’ armies into powerful weapons, Dido of the Phoenicians can move her capital city almost at will, and Kristina of the Swedes automatically themes her Great Works.

Civilization vi gathering storm review