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A wise man (who may or may not have been Abraham Lincoln) once said, "My hands are tied, for all I've seen has changed my mind, but still the wars go on as the years go by, with no love of god or human rights, 'cause all these dreams are swept aside, by bloody hands of the hypnotized, who carry the cross of homicide, and history bears the scars of our civil wars." We don't know for sure if he was talking about the Civil War scenario in Civilization V's upcoming Brave New World expansion, but we can only assume he was. We sat down for a few minutes to play it, and here's the result. Also, we don't know anything about American history.

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