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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: Episode 53: Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Description: The Civilization series is one of the most consistently successful 4x titles throughout video game history. It saw its first entry way back in 1991, and would continue to refine its history spanning empire building over the years. Perhaps the most well regarded of them was Civilization IV: Beyond The Sword, a standalone expansion pack for Civ IV that promised the deepest and most complex strategy up to that date.Civilisation V, however, seemed to break from a lot of what defined the main series up to that point. Unit stacking, global happiness and the removal/replacement of the...