don't know enough about it to form an opinion but i'm looking forward to it 
i agree, i'd love to see alpha centauri 2.
short rant about civ: it's been an annoyance to me for years that italy keeps getting excluded
and i guess ciV will be no different. i don't understand how celts, vikings, HRE, byzantium (etc, etc) are considered separate civs but rome + italy are the same thing.
i guess we know who to thank for: da vinci, galileo, columbus, dante, marco polo, michelangelo, machiavelli, casanova, thomas aquinas, francis of assisi, vespucci (the guy america's named after), the medici, vivaldi, opera, garibaldi, the renaissance and unfortunately fascism & mussolini, scientists (fermi fibonacci avogadro volta torricelli galvani meucci) and artists (giotto botticelli caravaggio raffaello tiziano canaletto modigliani canova bernini donatello), as well as the 44 World Heritage Sites (more than any other country in the world) currently present in Italy, Florence and Venice, contributions/crimes against fashion depending on your taste, as well as italy's standing in the modern world exemplified by its membership in the G8 and being a founding member of the EU and NATO - Ancient Rome.
glad i got that off my chest
i agree, i'd love to see alpha centauri 2.
short rant about civ: it's been an annoyance to me for years that italy keeps getting excluded
and i guess ciV will be no different. i don't understand how celts, vikings, HRE, byzantium (etc, etc) are considered separate civs but rome + italy are the same thing. i guess we know who to thank for: da vinci, galileo, columbus, dante, marco polo, michelangelo, machiavelli, casanova, thomas aquinas, francis of assisi, vespucci (the guy america's named after), the medici, vivaldi, opera, garibaldi, the renaissance and unfortunately fascism & mussolini, scientists (fermi fibonacci avogadro volta torricelli galvani meucci) and artists (giotto botticelli caravaggio raffaello tiziano canaletto modigliani canova bernini donatello), as well as the 44 World Heritage Sites (more than any other country in the world) currently present in Italy, Florence and Venice, contributions/crimes against fashion depending on your taste, as well as italy's standing in the modern world exemplified by its membership in the G8 and being a founding member of the EU and NATO - Ancient Rome.
glad i got that off my chest