Realism-invictus.com Website Review

REALISM: INVICTUS is a mod for Sid Meier's Civilization IV that brings a different feel to the game through its realistic visual appearance, de*pened game mechanics, refined play balance, and diversity of civilization-specific content. It is an open-source community project that is free to do*nload and play, but it requires a legal copy of Sid Meier's Civilization IV Beyond the Sword to be installed. Original game is in many cases either oversimplifying things, or even plain wrong. A couple of clas*ical examples are Persian Immortals (who historically had very little to do with how they are depicted in Civ4) and Roman Praetorians (unlike other legionaries, praetorians were never intended for taking part in military campaigns). Our goal was to enhance the historical feel by correcting those oversights. You will notice that many things, up to uniform details, are historically correct (or at least more correct, anyway). More diversity equals more fun. A civilization in Civ 4 was characterized by one unique unit and one unique building; basically, that was it – Aztecs were otherwise almost completely identical to, say, French. Moreover, many civilizations were limited to only one leader. We aim to make player's experience more unique each time, and all civilizations now have a unique terrain improvement, a sizeable set of buildings and units unique to them (actually, most units for every particular civilization will have some differences from their default counterparts) – and several leaders for each, in many cases with starkly differing personalities. Careful testing for better balance. We have been balancing the added features for literally years to ensure that tons of our added content function smoothly and give a balanced and rewarding gameplay experience both for beginner players (at lower difficulty levels) and for veterans wanting more challenge (at higher difficulty levels). We tried to accommodate for many different possible gameplay strategies