


Let's just hope he makes it all the way through each play-through.206 912 98. You can see how cities are now laid out, with nearby tiles given more precedence thanks to new district, as well as changes to workers (they're consumable), the tech tree (boosts for geographically relevant advances), and unit movement (to cut a long story short: it's going to take longer to get places).Īs usual with Civ, it's difficult to tell exactly how these changes will play out before we've sunk at a least a couple of days into the game, but at least we can say it's a good job Bean's on board. You can also watch the rest of the gameplay video from PC Gamer, which takes in a number of new features introduced in Civilization VI - the first totally new Civ games in six years. (Also a Yorkshireman I'd forgotten how good the accents of GoT were.) It's exactly the sort of guidance you want as you try to take over the world: grounded and sane, but without being humorless. He's a Sheffield lad, and there's a good-natured surliness to the way he turns his vowels - just think about Bean as Ned Stark in Game of Thrones, gently mocking Mark Addy's Robert Baratheon. While Nimoy's delivery was like a wise old immortal's, generously opening up cosmic wonders for the player, Bean's seems less. You can't replace Nimoy, of course, but Bean brings a whole new type of Northern English charm to the role. Sean Bean will be the voice of Civ 6's tech tree quotes: /NYF3lFrRKG And they've chosen - rather brilliantly - Sean Bean.īean has already appeared as the narrator for game's trailer, but PC Gamer has confirmed he's also in charge of the tech tree quotations, with the publication collating some of his quotations below: But with Nimoy's passing last February, Civilization has had to turn to a new narrator for humanity's progress. A little less nervous about Gandhi's nuclear program. Every time you discovered a new technology, Nimoy would be there for you: delivering in grave and stately tones a relevant quotation from a scientist, philosopher, or politician.

One of the most reassuring aspects of Civilization IV was Leonard Nimoy, the most iconic voice in the series.
