Handling and balancing various mechanics of your city management, tech, civics, and global standings works quite well with PS4's various shortcuts.
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It’s quite enjoyable to see some of the workarounds Firaxis put together to handle a PS4 controller in the managing of important Civ 6 aspects. One button will show you global alerts, the left shoulder button will bring up your tech, culture, art, government trees, etc., while the right will bring up your social interactions with the world. When it comes to accessing the map, your units, and the various stats menus, the PS4 version of Civ 6 guides you in well with helpful tutorials and is chockfull of shortcuts to make the process as streamlined for the gamepad’s limitations as possible. In fact, it does quite admirably for the most part. It’s not that the PlayStation 4’s controller doesn’t handle Civ 6 as best it can. It has to be said from the top that it can’t be easy taking a format where you have all the hotkeys of a keyboard and a mouse to interact with most on-screen tooltips, buttons, stats, and icons and applying it to a platform where you have to rely on a gamepad. How does Civilization 6 play on PlayStation 4? For better or worse, that fact on saving comes in handy later.
It doesn’t even feel like it takes as long if you want to load a save once you’ve gotten past that first loading screen.
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Turns move pretty effectively well, combat plays out nicely, opposing civs are nicely animated, and the whole machine moves like silk, even when the map is revealed and packed full of moving opponents. That said, once you’re in the game, it’s much smoother. It can take a bit to get into a game, but maybe once you're in, it moves along fairly smooth. Certainly, there’s a lot to populate, but we waited more than a few minutes for Civ 6 to finally finish loading and send us off on our merry way. On a standard PS4, it feels like a pretty long wait to load into a game. Once you’ve got your settings for play settled, getting into a game is a little bit of a slog. All of the options to tailor the game completely to your will are there, but it’s not hard to just go simple with it as well.
You can change your civ, the number of opposing civs, the map size and style, rules, scenarios, and even whether or not you’re playing under Gathering Storm rules, Rise and Fall rules, or the standard rules from the original launch of Civ 6. The customization options are kept deeply in-depth on PS4. Players can throw caution to the wind with the Play Now option, which gives them a random nation, map, and opposing players to compete against immediately, or you can get picky and choosey. The ‘Rise and Fall’ and ‘Gathering Storm’ expansions are joined by the newest nations and leaders, Nubia, Khmer, and Indonesia, led by Kandake Amanitore, Jayavarman VII and Dyah Gitarja respectively. Getting into a Civilization 6 game You can be as specific as ever in how you want your Civilization 6 game to be on the PS4 version.Īs previously mentioned, everything is fully intact and up to date with the PS4 launch of Civ 6.
That said, our time with the Civ 6 on PlayStation 4 definitely also highlighted just a few limitations of playing on a console sans a mouse or touchscreen interface. We had a chance to get into the PS4 version, and It’s still a fully intact and wonderfully rich game. Now it’s made its way over to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and with it comes the entire grand library of Civ 6 content that has come out after its initial launch. It’s sold millions of copies, had itself a good couple of expansions, and plenty of other add-on content to make it one of the most enjoyably comprehensive 4X strategy titles around. With it came a ton of new civ’s and leaders with fun and varied mechanics to choose from, a rich and deeply customizable game map, and a slew of other improvements upon the franchise. Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 originally came out in October 2016.
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