


America Inc is the english speaking world plus mexico. Contrast with how they handled the Civ4 mod NextWar: each faction's leader is almost universally stated to be mysterious or enigmatic, but the factions themselves are grounded enough to get us there. It ended up being hollow because you've got some vague stereotypes combined with vague references (the great mistake?! JUST TELL ME WHAT IT IS) so you end up being a sack of bonuses and colors instead of anything that could resemble a nation.

Look, give me a compelling story that bridges current day up to the moment the colony ships land, and people would be into it. To me, the decision to provide virtually no backstory was the killer. I don't know if it is true but my understanding is the whole thing came from some internal work that really got pushed to be a full release when it wasn't. Click to expand.They made a few mistakes, which I hope they learned from.
