Steve Butts of IGN has an informative interview with Firaxis’ Barry Caudill. We finally get some information on how the religion dynamic will work and some not so thrilling news about the addition of more movies.

The big news items are that eras are gone and so are governments. Now you government structure will be defined along five civic criteria: Government, Legal, Labor, Economy, and Religion.

The graphic rewrite looks significant and will be more user friendly from the main screen.