Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution

Platform	Xbox 360
List Price	$39.99
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Published by	2K Games
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ASIN	B000WMEEAI
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Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution will be the first offering in the legendary Civilization series to appear on next generation consoles and handheld systems. In development by legendary designer Sid Meier and Firaxis Games, this game will deliver Civilization's renowned epic single-player campaigns featuring vast re-playability and unmatched addictive gameplay. In addition, with revolutionary features like real-time interaction with leaders and advisors, extensive multiplayer capabilities and integrated video and voice chat, Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution will completely transport the Civilization series to a level of gameplay that fans have never seen before.

Experience the Epic World of Civilization

Sid Meier's Civilization® Revolution? is the latest offering in the legendary award winning Sid Meier's Civilization® series of strategy games, featuring the famous "just one more turn" addictive gameplay that has made this one of the greatest game series of all time. Civilization Revolution gives you the opportunity to experience the epic world-building of Civilization in a brand-new way. Designed from the ground up by the legendary Sid Meier and his team at Firaxis, you'll enjoy new graphics, gameplay and control that take full advantage of today's leading gaming platforms.

Key Features

CHOOSE YOUR CIV - Choose from 16 Civilizations throughout history (from Africa to Germany to America to China) to lead to victory. Each time you defeat a rival civilization you'll add an exhibit to your Hall of Achievements paying homage to your great accomplishments. With so many Civs and Leaders to play, you'll have a new and exciting experience with every game.
LEAD YOUR CIV - When you choose a Civ play as one of the world's most famous historical leaders (like Abe Lincoln, Otto von Bismarck, and Mao Tse Dong) and compete against the other leaders as you strive to create your own history in this epic game. Each leader will have 4 special abilities giving their Civ unique advantages throughout the ages.
REAL-TIME INTERACTION - Leaders and advisors will actively communicate with you - even turning and pointing to things in the world as they speak - making the interactions more realistic and engaging than ever before.
EXPLORE THE WORLD - Your quest to explore and discover will have you traversing the globe in search of long lost relics, rival civs, technologies, barbarians and much more.
FAST-PACED ACTION - Accessible maps and streamlined time scale will deliver quicker games and constant action.
INTENSE COMBAT - Triple your strength by combining up to three units into one powerful army and destroy your enemies. When your units win tough battles, they will become veterans and then elites. You can then choose from a list of powerful upgrades that will give elite units even more strength to dominate in war. Your Army will wear a distinct uniform representing your Civilization, so you will easily see them on the screen as you lead them into battle.

The Legacy

Hall of Fame Game designer, Sid Meier, has been called "The Father of Computer Gaming" with such early hits as F-15 Stealth Fighter, Railroad Tycoon, and Pirates. He put computer gaming on the map however, in 1991, when he delivered Sid Meier's Civilization® to the gaming world launching the "God Game" genre and creating one of the most award winning and addicting games on the planet. Civilization remains one of the world's top selling PC game series with over 8 million units sold and is recognized by the press as one of the greatest game franchises ever created.

In Civilization, players strive to become Ruler of the World by establishing and leading a civilization from the dawn of man into the space age waging war, conducting diplomacy, discovering technologies, going head-to-head with some of history's greatest leaders, and building the most powerful empire the world has ever known.

Sid Meier's Civilization® Revolution? is the latest offering in the legendary award winning Sid Meier's Civilization® series of strategy games, featuring the famous "just one more turn" addictive gameplay that has made this one of the greatest game series of all time. Civilization Revolution has been designed and built (by the legendary Sid Meier and his team at Firaxis) from the ground up for console and handheld systems delivering graphics, gameplay and controls that take full advantage of the hugely popular gaming platforms. Civilization Revolution is a watershed game offering players a chance to experience the epic empire building world of Civilization in a whole new way - in an accessible, visually immersive, fast paced, action-packed world that gamers crave.

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Customer Reviews - courtesy of Amazon.com

If you think it's too simplistic, try playing on "Deity"

So, I too was disappointed with my first game. It seemed so dumbed down from civ 4. As I decided to give it another try, it really opened up and I found that many strategies I had in the past, I could still use. You can still micromanage to a degree. You can still set your workers to only work certain squares, navel ships can provide bombardment bonuses to land troops attacking a city, and gosh darn it if I don't love being able to play a game in 3-4 hours rather than 13-14. I love civ 4, and I would love if they could bring it to xbox360, but this is a fantastic game in it's own right. I dominate on King(normal) level every time, emperor level is supremely challenging, and deity is frickin' ridiculous, though I have succeded once so far on that level.(economic victory) It is challenging to learn to use the 16 different civilizations effectively, and unlike some reviews here, I found them all very different to play. My girlfriend has become addicted as well, and currently has beat it on emporer 3 times (good girl!) Our sleepytime has been negatively affected though, I'm getting an average of 1.5 less hours of sleep per night due to Sid Meier's evilness!

An Experience Designed for the Consoles

I have been a long time player of the Civ series on PC - starting with Civilization II in 1996 - and was excited to hear it was making its way to a console system. (I think they did a version for the original Playstation way back when, but it wasn't great.)

The first thing to know is that the entire game has been designed and streamlined from the ground up for a quicker, simpler experience. A PC game of Civ can take 20 or more hours to complete - usually lasting days or weeks. A game in the 360 version can take an hour or two - usually being finished in one or two sittings. When I was younger, PC marathon sessions of Civ were no problem - as an adult with a job and kids, I welcome the opportunity to sit on my couch and get a similar play experience in a much shorter time frame.

Some of the more detailed aspects of Civ PC are not present (you won't be sending around workers to farm specific tiles and build roads, or constantly trying to figure out why the happiness level of a city is low and has ground production to a halt), but they would be out of place in this experience, and would definitely make the games take longer.

For me, this perfectly captures what I love most about the series, and blends it with what I have time for now. I also love the hall of fame type score system within the game (in addition to achievements) - it's the first game I've ever wanted to net 1,000 achievement points on, and my eventual goal is to get every hall of fame point as well. (including beating each leader on Diety level, and winning once with each leader and victory style on Diety.)

As a final word - if you haven't played the series at all, this is an excellent choice to start with. (as is the PC version) There's something hugely compelling about raising your civilization from clubs and fire pits to tanks and the internet, and determining along the way if you'll be peaceful or warlike, and if you'll focus on science or money - or a balance between all of these.

It gets to be slow.....

I am a great fan of Age of Empires PC Based game. I thought this would be a refreshing game and it was at the beginning. Once I started to have several cities and activities simultaneously happening, the game started to slow down significantly and the screen images would semi-freeze. Completely unacceptable for a $59US price tag.

Disapointing ending

We played this game for a few months straight, and couldn't put it down. The main complaint with this game is the game progresses way too fast and just when it's starting to get good, it ends. The "the game will end in 5 turns" prompt is the most frustrating thing I've ever experienced. The graphics were amazing, a lot of the thinking was taken out of the game for you, and there is very little customizing in the game to be done. The worst thing about it was that it never seems to get out of the post-bronze age, and that once your weaponry gets more advanced, the game is over. Oh and might I add that you can't attack land from water even with a battleship or sub, redering your navy almost useless. You can only attack water vessels to water and you can use your ships for transport. Your soldiers don't update with the times and being stuck with archers towards the end of the game when your enemys have seasoned officers and militia can be quite annoying. Overall, stick with the PC version folks, it's a much better longer, more satisfying play. I did enjoy the PS1 Version quite a bit as well.

SID MYERES REVOLUTION

Very easy and fun game. Takes a long time to play. This is like a hyper civilized version of RISK. I wish it were a little more realistic.
However very fun to play especially for us middle age gamers!