Civ V: Brave new world-- Brave new expansion

     Who wouldn't love to take half a day, maybe even days, off to sit down and play some Civ 5. Well, now that fun civ 5 experience is further enhanced with the new expansion, Civ 5: Brave New World. Yes the in depth civ 5 game will new have even more features that are put in place to further enhance the civ 5 experience. Brave new world brings several new features to the game one of which are trade routes. Trade routes are another way of earning wealth for your people as well as spreading your culture and religion. With this addition, leaders can choose to have their civilization become an international trade hub where wealth will flow in, but make sure your routes are secure. Along with trade routes, the new expansion also brings new civilizations that the player can choose including: Poland, Brazil, Assyria, Venice, Shoshone, Indonesia, Morocco, Zulu, and Portugal. The addition of these new civilizations allow for the player to expand their already handful of choices and explore many new civilization's strengths an weaknesses.

One of the new Civilizations available, Zulu.

     Brave new world puts more emphasis on culture and diplomacy adding a world congress as well as new ideologies and policies. The world congress is used for various things making relations important, such actions include trade sanctions, choosing host cities for world games, nuclear weapons, and more. A new culture victory was also implemented where if your civilization has a majority of influence in all other civilizations then you win a cultural victory. Along with these the game has new units and buildings as well as new wonders. Finally this expansion comes with two new scenarios  the American Civil War, and Scramble for Africa. This is the strongest expansion yet for Sid Meiers Civilization 5 garnering a lot of favorable reviews and high scores from critics showing that for Civ 5 the developers intend to keep going strong. So get out there and start up your new civilization and see if you can hack it in this Brave New World.

The new World Congress.

     Comment below on your favorite thing about the new expansion.
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