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.
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The game came out in November, but I'd not seen it played until this weekend at PAX East. One of Fantasy Flight's employees was kind enough to give me a brisk nine-minute explanation of how you play the game.
Civ: The Board Game appears to be as impressively nuanced as the video game original. Anyone in the comments section play it and want to tell us whether it holds up?