I couldn’t agree more with this review. The port is fantastic, better in fact than it has any right to be. I can’t think of any other game that allows mod support on unjailbroken iOS. It’s like Aspyr have found a way over the wall of apples garden.
I had some initial reservations about such a big game on iPad, but I’m happy to see the port can cope. Even half way through a huge map/epic speed/max civs/max city states the ai still finishes its turn in a realistic time frame.
I’ve read some of the patch notes for the PC version and it shows firaxis is dealing with my major concerns with the game itself (ai defence, naval combat). I just hope those patches get to us in a reasonable time frame. Now I’ve beaten all the map sizes I’ll start the climb to deity, so I hope the gameplay and balance tweaks get here before I’m done with that.