There doesn't seem to be any actual campaign in Civ 5 (aside from the Mongolian 'scenario' game), so you can really play it any way you want by setting up the map type, size, resources, number of civs and city states, victory conditions, barbarian personalities, and more.Ĭiv 5 does have a multiplayer aspect that actually works, but the unit animations are disabled for some reason, so it's not terribly engaging compared to single player against the AI. Unlike Supreme Commander, I don't feel like I need to have six cups of coffee when I play Civilization 5.

Supreme Commander (and Starcraft) are fast action, in your face, ready or not, game is done in 10 - 30 minutes type strategy games while the turn based gameplay of Civ 5 is much more relaxed and the games can take many hours to complete (depending on the map and victory conditions).

I played all the Supreme Commander games A LOT but I had never touched a Civilization game until now. I would pick SC2 anytime above Civ 5, but I grew up with Starcraft, Warcraft 3 etc, so its a natural choice for me. I recommend watching Husky's channel a bit first, and see whether you like the game or not.īottom line for a SC2 fanatic: Get SC2 if you don't mind playing that game for the next 5 years of your life (making it incredibly worth it), or get Civ 5 if you cannot devote as much life into SC2. Take a look at this thread: Starcraft II Clubhouse That said, once you reach a level of competency (good build orders, 60+ apm, knows what to do in every possible manner even if you cannot execute your plans), it will be much more fun than Civ 5 and the players are much nicer. (All in at 5 min failed? Well, more often than not, they will swear and do stuff like that). The online element is the one which gets all the blood pumping, and if you don't master the basic build orders, unit counters and stuff like that, you will get absolutely smashed, and the lower league players are rather rude. If you want Starcraft 2, you must be willing to commit a greater part of your gaming time to it, playing it just because you want to try it out wouldn't cut it anymore.

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