

The Canadians like their weather cold, and can do things to make a civilization work in the frozen tundras that would ruin any other faction. The Maori start off on a boat with no sight of land. Superficially the first thing you’ll notice when turning the Gathering Storm expansion on (you can turn it off if you want to play a campaign without it) is that there is a bunch of new civilizations to play, and there are some wildly good ones in there. With that in mind, let’s talk about the expansion, because it is a good ‘un. That expansion was not dropped onto the Switch initially (though it is there now as well), so I’ve been able to play that for the first time on PS4. Thankfully, there is one thing I can review to make this content original – after the Switch release 2K put out an expansion, Gathering Storm, which really changed up the Civilization experience. So it’s all checks as far as port quality goes. The interface still works as beautifully on the Dualshock controller as it did on the Switch. There’s still an abominably bad loading time when first creating a campaign, but otherwise there’s no technical issues in playing Civilization VI on PS4. The problem with reviewing this game is that I’ve already reviewed the Switch port, and aside from the improved visual element, the quality of the game is much the same. I’d actually be annoyed at this if I didn’t love Civilization so much. Related reading: Our review of the game on Nintendo Switch
