![]() Think Planet of the Apes and the Statue of Liberty poking out of a sand dune. The planet is subtly but not completely different each time – new volcanoes, an ice age or sea level rise, some tectonic shift, etc. The next era starts again with a stone age tribe, but this time the world you’re exploring contains the remnants of all the eras that have gone before you. ![]() Once the world is around 60-70% inhabited there’s a random zombie apocalypse/alien invasion/nuclear war/pandemic and everything is reduced back to the stone age. Civilisations compete for a bit to expand and build wonders. Each era starts like normal with a settler and a warrior. ![]() In my universe it will go something like this. Given the sustained success of Civilization 6, it’s a bit odd that Firaxis wouldn’t just come right out and say that’s what the project was, if it were working on it.īuggered if I know, probably not this, but for my money what I want is the expansion phase of Civ only. Sometimes outlandish, but always grounded in the realities of human history (well, except for when Ghandi starts flinging nukes around at least). Civ has always at its heart been about historical “What If” scenarios. ![]() Hazen’s announcement, and the press release condensing it, noticeably avoid saying the phrase ‘ Civilization 7,’ which has set a few tongues wagging on social media. Hazen used the occasion to announce that the studio is indeed working on the next instalment in the well-loved Civilization franchise. She moved to Epic Games as an executive producer in 2017, and Honeycomb Labs in 2020, before joining Firaxis as its Chief Operating Officer. Hazen’s career saw her in an almost 10-year stint at PopCap Games, entering the company as a producer in 2008 and rising through the ranks to become its Games General Manager by 2015. ![]()
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