My week as a Tyrant!

Over this last week I was able to delve into the gaming franchise of Civilization with its latest entry in the series Civilization 5. The core idea of the series is to take a civilization and a famous ruler and lead to through the ages. You may win through diplomacy, winning the space race, culture and of course war. You have allies and enemies. You have nothing but your brains, your mouse and a lot of guts to lead you to victory.

The latest version of Civilization launched September 21, 2010. I (of course being a fan of the series) picked up the game one the first day. I ran home, installed it on to my computer and I didn’t sleep for the first night, for I was hooked. Talk about bad timing....I had class the next day

So I decided for my first run that I would lead Montezuma and the Aztecs through the ages. My story started with such hope and then I fell into damnation... We begin at my first turn when I had nothing but settlers, some warriors and a dream in my heart.

Ahhh my humble beginnings...

I was trotting along through history, making cities here and laying the foundations of my technologically advance empire. It was then that I received a message from one of my allies saying that they need a city to be “taken care” of. So I raced with my army to the city and began my siege....That was when the Russians attacked. Apparently they too were sent to destroy the city. So the city, the Russians and myself were locked in a trifecta land war of chaos and destruction. It came to the point where it was just the city (its broken walls), and the Russians and I each had one catapult. It was a race to finish of the city, which I of course won.

That is when I began my dark road... The Russians tried to stop my taking of the city, their deed shall not go unpunished. I raised an army for the sole purpose of taking over the Russians. Long was our war but it ended with a broken peace treaty (I did that on purpose) and their entire civilization wiped out. O I kept their cities and people under my rule. I needed to make gold off them some how. The French and Japanese found out about my"activities" and began to offer treaties and trade agreement terms. Though the French showed me attitude...So I destroyed them and liberated a city they took over. The Japanese were always hovering around my borders. So I crushed them. I then turned to the dark side. I knew I wanted to win through war and no way else. I discovered the Romans and we went to war over a land filled with many resources. So I killed them all...Then I found the Arabian empire. They were the last bastion of hope against my tide of evil. If I wanted to win, they would need to be gone. I ended them swiftly and without mercy. Thus there I was triumphant and victorious, but at what cost? My sanity and morals shattered, all over a game. I was a fragment of my formal self. I was Montezuma!

Yeah that was me for a bit...

That will of course change this week. I shall go for a more peaceful path to victory and hopefully not be seen as a tyrant. I mean with Civilization...Anything is possible and the world truly is my oyster.

Justin