{"id":7049,"date":"2012-06-22T09:27:56","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T13:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2013-03-01T17:39:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T22:39:22","slug":"sid-meiers-civilization-5-gods-kings-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/sid-meiers-civilization-5-gods-kings-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization 5: Gods &#038; Kings Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/civ5_gods_kings.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\" title=\"civ5_gods_kings\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7070\" title=\"civ5_gods_kings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/civ5_gods_kings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/civ5_gods_kings.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/civ5_gods_kings-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a retail release on the 19th of June 2012, Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization 5: Gods &amp; Kings, the first expansion pack to Civilization 5, is now available for digital download with a launching price of $29,99.<\/p>\n<p>The major Gods &amp; Kings new features, that I could take note of, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>9 New Civilizations:<\/strong>\u00a0Carthage,\u00a0Byzantium,\u00a0the\u00a0Huns,\u00a0Austria, the\u00a0Netherlands, the\u00a0Maya, Sweden,\u00a0Ethiopia\u00a0and the Celts (there&#8217;s also\u00a0now\u00a0Spain and\u00a0Mongolia that have been introduced earlier via DLCs).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Religion:<\/strong>\u00a0Great prophets, missionaries and inquisitors help spread your faith.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Espionage:<\/strong>\u00a0Establish embassies and use spies for surveillance, steal technologies or interfere with city-state alliances.<\/li>\n<li><strong>City-States:<\/strong>\u00a0Two new city-state types have been added (Mercantile and Religious). Vatican City and Jerusalem are holy cities that play key roles in the religious struggle.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reworked combat system:<\/strong>\u00a0More emphasis on a balanced army composition. Lines should stand longer to allow for smarter tactical decisions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Naval Combat:<\/strong>\u00a0The navy is now split into two different ship types, melee and ranged. This means that coastal cities are now vulnerable to surprise naval attacks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>9 New Wonders:<\/strong>\u00a0New wonders include the Hubble Space Telescope,\u00a0Neuschwanstein, the Great Mosque of Djenne, the Great Firewall\u00a0and the Terracotta Army.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Three new Scenarios:\u00a0<\/strong>Medieval\u00a0(from the crusades to the Renaissance): Fall of Rome (play as either Eastern Rome, Western Rome or as the Barbarians);\u00a0Empires of the Smoky Skies (build flying airships and huge tractor-like tanks in this Victorian science-fiction scenario).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apparently there are also new technologies, 27 new units and 13 new buildings.<\/p>\n<h3>Where to buy<\/h3>\n<p>A retail version is available from the following\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/civilization5.com\/godsandkings\/us\/retail.php\" target=\"_blank\">sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy digital from these locations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-5249670-10731427?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gamersgate.com%2FDD-CIV5GKEP%2Fsid-meiers-civilization-v-gods-and-kings-expansion-pack\" target=\"_blank\">GamersGate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-5249670-11076265?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenmangaming.com%2Fs%2Fpt%2Fen%2Fpc%2Fgames%2Fstrategy%2Fsid-meiers-civilization-v-gods-and-kings%2F\" target=\"_blank\">GreenManGaming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.impulsedriven.com\/civ5gak\" target=\"_blank\">Impulse\/Gamestop<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a  href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/16870\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, here we go again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Note that Gods &amp; Kings is not a standalone expansion and requires that you own the Civilization 5 base game in order to play this new expansion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wGGj46fxgxY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sid Meier&#8217;s Civilization 5: Gods &#038; Kings, the first expansion pack to Civilization 5, is now available for digital download with a launching price of $29,99.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[742,11,243,830,741,201],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-2k-games","tag-civilization","tag-civilization-5","tag-civilization-5-gods-kings","tag-firaxis-games","tag-sid-meier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}