'Civilization Online' turns Sid Meier's strategy classic into a role-playing game

Set aside everything you know and love about Civilization — like the strategic turn-based gameplay or control over vast expanses of land, population, and materiel — and prepare for a whole new way to experience Sid Meier's world. Civilization Online promises to let players assume the role of a single human operating within a massively-multiplayer, real-time universe. The Civ elements come in the form of the multiple epochs of development in which you can live out your adventure and the four civilizations available at launch. There will moreover be opportunities to participate in resource-gathering, Wonder-building, state-ruling, and other familiar aspects of the game.

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