Civilization: The Board Game from Fantasy Flight Games is no mere global Monopoly, no svelte Catan. It is a complicated affair and one that’s not so easy to capture on video.
It’s funny, for a game based on history and real things, Civilization has always had a strangely fictional unit at its core: the “Settler”, who can make towns and later cities just appear.
Sid Meier is taking two of the most addictive games ever created—Civilization and Facebook—and melding them into one. Today he announced Civilization Network, coming to Facebook in 2010.