Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods and Kings: Coming 6/19/2012

You look out on your kingdom and conceive that it stands of the precipice of glory. You've built it from a meager farming community into a grand and thriving realm. People flock to your borders to seek sanctuary and to better their lives. You've survived droughts, famines, debt and war from neighboring civilizations, and now the world is about to view the full capabilities of your kingdom. It's time to expand, but will you choose diplomatic or military means?

Enhance your Civilization V experience with the first expansion pack for the critically acclaimed title. Gods and Kings is a robust expansion pack that delivers new technologies, units, buildings, Wonders, scenarios, civilizations and more to the core game experience. Establish your first Pantheon of the Gods, create your own religion and send prophets, missionaries and inquisitors to other lands to help spread your beliefs — and make allies of city-states and other like-minded civilizations. Utilize diplomacy and espionage to advance your civilization. Set up embassies at foreign courts and unleash spies to observe other cities, steal technologies and obstruct city-state alliances. Explore nine new Wonders, including Neushwanstein, the Great Mosque of Djenne, the Terracotta Army, the Great Firewall and the Hubble Space Telescope. Wage war on land and in the sea with a reworked combat system, AI and naval combat that requires you to strategize carefully to assert your dominance — or take advantage of diplomatic means to peacefully rule the world. With an array of new options at your fingertips, how will you lead your Civilization to glory?


FEATURES

• Wage war on coastal cities with melee and ranged ship types, and protect your embarked units with a naval unit for added defense
• Enhance your Civilization V experience with this robust expansion pack that features nine new civilizations, nine new Wonders, three scenarios, new systems for land and naval combat and more
• Learn and develop new technologies, assert your military dominance with 27 new units, construct 13 new types of buildings and explore nine new Wonders
• Take control of nine new civilizations, like Carthage, Netherlands, the Celts and the Maya, along with each one's unique traits, units and buildings, and interact with nine new leaders such as William I, Prince of Orange, Boudicca and Pacal the Great
• Explore nine new Wonders, including Neuschwanstein, the Great Mosque of Djenne, the Terracotta Army, the Great Firewall and the Hubble Space Telescope, and enjoy each Wonder's all-new effects
• Experience three new scenarios, such as Medieval times, the Fall of Rome and Empires of the Smoky Skies
• Lead a Medieval kingdom into the Renaissance as you grow your realm into a great nation, fend off Mongol and Ottoman invasions and engage in the religious wars of the Crusades and Reformation
• Repel or play as barbarians in Eastern or Western Rome during the Fall of Rome scenario
• Enter the Victorian science-fiction Empires of the Smoky Skies scenario to construct flying airships and huge tractor-like tanks from a one-of-a-kind tech tree to grow your empire across the pre-industrialized world
• Choose from two new city-states — Mercantile and Religious — and expand your influence with a range of new quests that further the game's storyline and allow for diplomacy as a varied option for victory
• Lead a following of righteous people to build your faith and create a religion that can be customized and enhanced as you desire — will your religion be tolerant of other faiths? Will it be focused on the arts, money or military? The choice is yours
• Unlock custom religious buildings that only people of your religion can build, spread your beliefs to other lands and gain alliances of city-states and like-minded civilizations through the work of prophets, missionaries and inquisitors
• Use diplomacy or espionage to influence the growth of your civilization — establish embassies at foreign courts for closer ties, send spies to set up surveillance on foreign cities, steal technologies or meddle with city-state alliances
• Vie for world domination with a revamped combat system and AI that place more emphasis on a balanced army, allowing your lines to stand longer to let you make more informed strategic decisions

IGN has an overview of religion and espionage

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