A game which is incredibly addictive. Mostly this is good but often makes you end up being late for something.. Superb
First of all there are 4 ways to win a game. Cultural victory, Technological victory, economic victory and domination victory. To win a cultural victory you have to build 20 great great wonders or people, (such as Albert Einstein), and build the united nations to win. To win a technological victory you have to Research enough technologies to build Alpha Centuari. To win economic you need to get 20,000 gold pieces, which is seperated over 8 milestones, and to win domination victory you need to capture all enemy capitals. You have to think and plan ahead how you want to win at the beginning as all of a sudden in 2002, you'll realise that you won't have enough turns left to win. Turns, at the beginning in 3000 bc, are worth 100 years but by 2000, the modern era, they will be worth just 2. You also have to be careful with diplomacy as some allies will stab you in the back, for example, you have 19 people or wonders and a cultural victory is on the horizon but someone with a strong army might threaten you that if you don't hand over a person, they will attack you. This means that in the game you have to take all things into account. This is what makes it the highly immersive strategy game that it is.
I could go on for hours talking about every single component, but one thing is for sure. This is a superb game.