Great console version of the game, but is missing features that easily could be fixed with a update online.
First we'll go with diplomacy. Diplomacy is one of the highly important aspects of all civilization games. It allows people with different strategies to tweak their playing style. Yes it's great to say "Hey I'll pay you to attack that guy", but the ability to make a deal of open borders then break it is priceless civilization history. Additionally the ability to trade technologies without the AI prompting you to sucks. Yes you can ask to buy a tech, and yes you can sell yours, but not being able to swap this for that leaves out a fun part of the game.
Diplomacy actually runs right into my next area: resource trading. Think about how many wars have been fought over time for control over resources. In this version of Civilization you can't colonize them, you can't trade them, after you play for a few minutes you hardly even remember they are there. Worst yet, it shows from turn 1 exactly where these resources are on the map. It would be a great addition to be able to swap resources from one civ to another, and a great reason to attack another civ. There should be one spot on the map where a valuable resource is at that everyone needs and game on, you've got to start thinking about wartime options.
Ok the next one just makes me mad: upgrading units. Yes it's great that when a unit wins a battle you can give it a upgraded power, but when you are in the modern age and you still have warriors chilling around all they're doing is taking up space and slowing the game down. Ok so you can disband the unit and get some gold, YAY THAT'S AWESOME, not. Who cares if you can get 40 gold out of a old unit, by that late in the game your economy should be going strong? What about the fact that my warrior is a unit that has a lot of experience, is a veteran with the ability to heal in enemy land and has a stronger attack city value? It's cool i'll just delete him, besides old hero's never die, they just fade into the past.
Next up, selecting a stack of units, I'm keeping this one short. It's great that I can set a rally point and click with my left thumb stick to send my unit there, but it gets old when you have a lot of units that you want to send somewhere. Just give us a command that says, select all units on tile, and I'll be happy.
Last major complaint: Where the heck is the just one more turn option? The most sacred part of civilization is being able to keep playing once you've already won. Yeah I won an economic victory HURRAY, now I want to destroy them. Here's a fun little idea, after I win the diplomatic victory and I'm chosen grand poo bah wouldn't it be fun to blow the hell out of everyone? Hmm, YES! Give me back my just one more turn option. Seriously, it's not only disappointing that this was left out, it really kind of ticks me off.
Alright so there are my complaints. Yes I know this is on a console and these games aren't meant to last forever like on the pc, but hey it'd be nice to be able to enable or disable these options. The game is still a blast to play and I've already been playing it for hours, but hopefully the design team will come through with a few updates or a download-able expansion for more leaders and some fixes later on.
Oh yeah one more thing that needs to be fixed, yesterday I nuked some ru-skies and then when I went to take their city, my adviser informed me I wasn't at war with them. I have to admit, that did make me giggle a bit, but I think someone needs to fix that. Overall, A-, I love civ, and I know this is a dumbed down version for a console, but there are some things you just can't leave out. Thanks to the designers for another great civilization, keep pumping them out, I'll keep buying them.