We don’t want to wish our lives away here at Readwrite Gaming but we wish it was February 10th, 2025. That would be the night before Civ 7 releases and we could boot it up for the first time, sit back, and enjoy the epic intro before plowing into a game that is going to take over most of our lives. Except now we will just be able to press the mouse button when we see SKIP in the bottom right of the screen because, well we have seen it. Firaxis and 2K have released the game’s opening cinematic, voiced by the excellent Gwendoline Christie of Game of Thrones and Star Wars fame, and boy oh boy do we wish what followed was Main Menu, Start New Game.