You really interacted with all the nations," Beach noted. "We found that when you're playing for the military victory, it's a very active, aggressive playstyle. All of this is built around giving the player more agency in the cultural victory. Tourists can come see your culture, and countries could steal great works to take some of your culture for their own. Beach described how you could build a large museum like the Louvre, giving you plenty of space to fill with great paintings and cultural artifacts dug up from past battles. Cultural victories now rely on raising great artists, musicians, and writers to create famous works that will spread throughout the world. Most of that comes in the revised victory types. , there's a lot focused on that second half of the game to make that race really compelling." "Once the world is all discovered and you're going through that threshold into the Industrial Age, you start running out of things to do as everyone is running up to finishing the game. "If a player is going to run out of things to do, it will be in the second half of the game," Shirk said. The two said that this is targeted towards late-game, both to make up for the developer not having the chance to address those systems in the first expansion, and to add more depth to a part of the game that speeds toward the finish. The second is really meant to work with the first, combining to create a marked shift in the experience. The two are are complementary in the pieces of the game they address-so much so that Brave New World will include many of Gods and Kings' underlying systems for players who didn't buy the first expansion. In a way, Brave New World is the other half of Civ 5's last expansion, Gods and Kings. We talked with lead designer Ed Beach and senior producer Dennis Shirk about the expansion's focus and goals. The Brave New World expansion, which launches July 9, is going to make serious shifts to the late-game content, revising both the cultural and diplomatic victories. Civilization 5 is preparing to reinvent itself, again.