It’s a testament to Sid Meier’s institutional status that we never pause to consider how profoundly unusual it is for a game creator to put his own name in the title. Even Hideo Kojima stops short of calling his games “Hideo’s Kojima’s Death Stranding” or whatever, instead settling for prefacing every title with “A Hideo Kojima Game”.Do you think Meier does this in his everyday life, going around labelling everything he owns with his own name? Sid Meier’s House. Sid Meier’s Car. Sid Meier’s Fridge. Sid Meier’s Milk.I suppose you can’t deny the results however, with Sid having lent his name to some of the finest PC games around. And now, you can grab a whole bunch of them on the cheap, thanks to Humble Bundle’s The Sid Meier Collection (which, really, should be called Sid Meier’s Humble Bundle Collection).The bundle contains 10 Sid Meier titles, which, naturally, includes several Civilization games. The main attraction is probably Civilization 6: Anthology Edition, which includes the Rise and Fall and Gathering Storm expansions, plus the New Frontier pass. Also included are the Complete Editions of Civilization 5, Civilization 4, and Civilization 3. The latter two might be a little creaky these days (though Civ 4 still has its adherents). But 5 is still regarded by many as the best game Firaxis has ever produced.Alongside the mainline Civ games, the Bundle also includes Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth—Firaxis’s spiritual successor to Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, which didn’t quite reach the quality bar of…
