As always, this simply was the best CIV game. Yang was...problematic (chinese faction that uses mass-forced collectivism bc Sid is a libshit) but imo this game was less problematic than almost all the CIV games afterwards...especially with how they treated natives. Another thing is that it's definitely a massive CW with cruelty to "living beings" in general. There are "secret projects" that are like the wonders in CIV but with technological breakthroughs. One of these secret projects show a industrial farming facility with one of the leaders talking about "perfected, cloned human beings". As you can imagine, grim stuff worthy of a CW.

If you're unfamiliar, it's an old CIV; so you get support units, infinite stacks, etc. It also was the civ game where you could customize specific units and redesign them. Ocean colonization. Weird, theoretical technology. The entire planet is alive and it's immune system says you don't belong.

It's also the only Civ game that harshly, harshly criticizes Capitalism, like with Morgan industries. It also has a shitpost worthy secret project from Morgan; behold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdCB9yE9Hcc

I wonder why CHUDS don't talk about it. Maybe because they can't understand any of it?

"Don't go...the drones need you..."