Very Addictive! So addictive I play for hours every time!
Gameplay: Overall it's really good fun it draws you in and makes you play a single game going on for some hours. You can choose what kind of victory you want to achieve in terms of not winning through military conquest. Instead you can win by being dominant economically, culturally, Technologically and of course my favourite military conquest hahaha! To make your civilization grow you make (or conquer) many settlements and as you advance through the ages see your small stone age mud hut villages becoming fantastic cosmopolitan sky scraper like cities! The only thing that can be iritating about the gameplay itself sometimes is the fact that the constuction and military unit movement options are pedantic if not unnecesary. For example the game forces you to look at the constuction in each city individually and once that is done you have to repeat the same equivelent with the army units which is a pain. Really sometimes you dont care or want to look at the cities or the units because for whatever the surcomstances you would rather sometime take several turns without really having to do anything (to give time for buildings to be built, new units to be made and research of new technologies done).
Multiplayer: This for me is a real pain because there are hardly any users online and for some reason it keeps logging me out of the Playstation network and I'm unable to play it.
Graphics: The visuals are fair and reasonable but could be done a little bit better in parts but it's not bad.
Controls: They work fine can easily be picked up however I've sometimes encountered problems in their responsivenes. The most annoying being when you want to finnish you turn I end up sometimes constantly pressing the button to take my damn turn and the lack of responsiveness is irritationg you really need to press some things once!
Sound: The soundtrack is fine however I find the voice acting of the advisers sometimes a little annoying practically they speak if not sound like you've hired Mr. Bean to do the job.
Overall this game has its bugs but overall it is currently the best strategy game around a must have for all console using strategy fans!