Want to spoil the start of Civilization VII before launch? Watch the game’s opening cinematic to get yourself in the mood
We don’t want to wish our lives away here at Readwrite Gaming but we wish it was February 10th, 2025. That would be the night before Civ 7 releases and we could boot it up for the first time, sit back, and enjoy the epic intro before plowing into a game that is going to take over most of our lives.
Except now we will just be able to press the mouse button when we see SKIP in the bottom right of the screen because, well we have seen it.
Firaxis and 2K have released the game’s opening cinematic, voiced by the excellent Gwendoline Christie of Game of Thrones and Star Wars fame, and boy oh boy do we wish what followed was Main Menu, Start New Game. Instead, we are left hanging after the three minutes and a bit-long introduction video which takes us through time, all narrated by Christie as it takes us through the passage of history and highlights the Ages that will make this version of Civ different from all that went before it, as we discussed in this earlier article.
On top of the opening cinematic Firaxis has also released the game’s epic new theme music composed by Christopher Tin and titled ‘Live Gloriously’ – packed with operatic Latin singing and sweeping orchestral movements Tin says, “With ‘Live Gloriously,’ I wanted to capture universal themes of hope, heroism and mortality that have resonated across history. You’ll hear words from The Iliad, Beowulf, Popol Vuh, and Ramayana, delivering a beautiful sense of gravity and emotion that embodies the story of humanity.”
Yep. he’s managed that. You can hear it for yourself below while checking out the opening sequence in the video above.
Sid Meier’s Civilization VII launches worldwide on February 11, 2025 for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam (which also supports Mac and Linux) and the Epic Games Store. Cross-play multiplayer and cross-progression are supported across platforms.
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