![]() ![]() Although novices and the impatient can have the computer auto-resolve conflicts, picking just the right type of unit and deploying them using elevation and the varying terrain is a lot of fun, win or lose. Battles are much more hands-on and participatory, with skirmishes divided into several phases. Armed conflict is also handled a little differently than in Civ VI, and will especially please those who enjoy the “exterminate” aspect of 4X games. Stability is another critical resource, and if not attended to will place limits on the growth of your city. Influence is a resource/stat that places limits on your ability to expand over the map, and figures significantly into diplomacy, and becomes particularly important when you want support for war. While the majority of Humankind’s moment-to-moment, turn-by-turn gameplay will feel quite familiar to Civ VI players, there are few other new things that veterans will need to pay special attention to and understand. Of course, being able to hopscotch between cultures doesn’t make for a coherent dramatic throughline. It’s great to be able to make the change if you’re finding one culture or another not to your liking or play style. It is only when the hunter-gatherers are ready to settle down that you pick one of ten cultures, and one of Humankind’s other - and maybe, best - new ideas is that you can switch cultures at each era of historical evolution, keeping things like wonders and bonuses from earlier stages in place. Your stalwart little tribe explores the map in search of resources and technology, engages in skirmishes with animals and other tribes and eventually becomes ready to found a permanent home and ride the 200-turn carousel of progress to the stars. Instead of picking a civilization, though, you start with a Neolithic tribe of hunter-gatherers–the first and one of the most interesting of Humankind’s new ideas. At first blush, though, things look and feel very much the same, with the vaguely world-music influenced opening track and a good looking, colorful map largely hidden by a fog of war. ![]()
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