Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods & Kings (Expansion Pack)

To improve upon a great game is tough as the new version of the game requires new ideas and features that will leave its audience surprised every time they play the game. However, Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods & Kings as an expansion pack delivers more than expected. With new types of city-states and improvements in land and naval combat, Gods & Kings gives a fresh perspective to the original game. Build civilizations and invent new technologies to take over the world by playing Civilization V: Gods & Kings.

As Gods & Kings is an expansion pack, you would require the original game, Sid Meier's Civilization V, to play the game. The game is targeted towards hard-core gamers who like playing strategy games. The turn-based strategy game will keep you glued to your PC screen for hours. Gods & Kings game DVD is available for PC and carries E10+ rating from ESRB.

Synopsis and Features

Gods & Kings marks the evolution of humans from the early Pantheon era in Rome. The objective of Gods & Kings is to spread religion across the world. The game has a broad and varied approach as you can even advance to the space age and dominate the world. The game delivers intense competition as you advance through the campaigns, allowing you create your own utopia. Gods & Kings offers creative gameplay elements that you can use to build civilizations like never before.

Developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games, Gods & Kings offers plenty of tools for an aspirational strategy gamer. The hardware specifications essential to play the smoothly on your computer are Windows XP, a 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo E4300 or Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3600+ processor, an NVidia GeForce 6800 GS or ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card, 2 GB RAM and 1 GB of free hard disk space.

The single-player campaign in the game starts as soon as you select the world in which you want to play in. You can switch on tool tips and learn how each tool available within the game will help you in building your empire. There are plenty of new leaders from Gustavus of the Swedes or Pacal of the Maya that guide your soldiers. You can demand tributes from city-states, if you are ready to lose a favour. Even the hit points of your soldiers has been scaled up from a scale of 10 to 100, allowing you to engage in intense fights and win against your enemies.

If you are fan of steampunk elements, Gods & Kings offers many features that include leaders, different tech categories and units that give life to an entirely different world dedicated to steampunk creations. Selecting the scenario Empires of the Smokey Skies will easily enable you to delve into this science-fiction world, making you spend hours in it as you will forget about time each time you play the game.

With the addition of elements such as espionage and religion, Gods & Kings becomes more than a game. Based on an entire new Faith resource, you can build new structures and do many other things. Earn enough Faith and you can create Great Prophets to spread your religion. As you progress through the game you can pick religious traits that will assist you in many ways. Espionage on the other hand gives you the power to know what your opponents are up to. Using spies, you will be able to gather information that can be used to develop advanced technologies, allowing you to beat your opponent.

If you like playing games with your friends you can do it in Civilization V: Gods & Kings as it supports multiplayer. With 9 new civilizations available, Gods & Kings can be played for more than 30 hours. The updates DLCs and other content for the game can be downloaded directly from the company’s website.