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Sid Meier's Civilization: Revolution (PS3) | 
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Category: Video Games
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 120
Platform: Playstation 3
Media: Video Game
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
EAN: 5026555401265
ASIN: B0015RPF3Y
Release Date: June 13, 2008
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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. Civilization Revolution 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 Zedong) 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. Civilopedia - an invaluable in-game multi-media resource that informs and entertains players with authentic videos, pictures and background information about the real world elements in Civilization. Multiplayer: The Best Ever!
Hot Join - join a game already in progress.
Simultaneous Moves - no more waiting your turn, just make your move when you're ready.
Early Withdrawal From the Game - a player can drop out and the game will keep going.
Team Play with handicapping. Xbox Live -Up to 4 players can battle as teams, head to head, or have a complete free-for-all. Auto-matching, ranked games, leaderboards, and achievements make the online play more versatile and fun than any previous version of Civilization. Game of the Week - Each week a new Firaxis created map will become available to players for download. Finish the game with the highest score you can achieve, and have it posted to the Civ Game of the Week Xbox Live leader boards to see how you stack up against players around the globe! Endless Fun - Unlockables, scenarios, mods and additional maps offer infinite replayability. Integrated Video and Voice Chat - When playing a friend (or foe) in multi-player interact with them in a whole new way! Watch them smile as you offer your assistance, and then watch that smile fade away as your armies march into their capital. Downloadable Content - Players with Xbox Live will be able to download extra content like multiplayer maps and scenarios not available to offline players. Achievements - Whether you play single-player or multi-player, you will be able to unlock achievements for everything from making your first diplomatic contact, to winning the game with just a single city, to playing a game online with the legendary creator of Civilization, Sid Meier! Tutorial - Firaxis will guide new players through their first game - they'll learn from the masters and be well on their way to ruling the world. Custom made for the Console
Intuitive and natural control through each gamepad
Highly detailed characters, units, buildings, landscapes and visual effects
Integrated physics for ultra-realism
Seamless interface to guide players through the game
Non-stop action
5.1 surround sound for intense sound effects and music
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Absorbing & fun July 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
First a warning... if you're a fan of strategy games, then this game will have hooked from the start and soak up all your free time, you'll have to find a way to wean yourself off. You have been warned!
The graphics are superb, the game play balanced (some of the more time consuming elements available on the PC version have been removed to allow the game to flow along quicker), and an element of humour added with the various caricatures of world leaders and advisors.
Although some elements of the game have been simplified, the depth to the strategy is still abundant, the 'Game of the Week' mode provides a set map and a set world power, having played this mode several times I was surprised how different each game turn out.
The only reason I haven't given this game 5 out of 5, is that there is no way to speed up the battle scenes, although these have been wonderfully animated, they can become a bit tiresome after a week or so.
Well done Sid Meier (and team) on another hit...
 Revolu ... yawn July 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a review for people who don't usually play games like Civ - Dev, not for any Civ fans or obsessives who can devote whole days and weeks to strategy games :) - it's just for people who've tried the demo.
To be fair this is not the usual type of game I like but after trying the demo from PSN I was surprised to see how involved I was in the game trying to get a Domination win before the demo ran out.
Once I managed that I got the full game and found that the demo length pretty much matched my attention level - once past that point I quickly started to find that with all the extra cities and units I'd made the whole game was more tedious than challenging. Development of cities just drags ('wonder' will be completed in in 73 turns ... etc. ) and the combat becomes a question of waiting and more waiting while you build bigger legions and catapults etc. , slowly move them around the map, and that's pretty much it.
And how come I can have a square filled with all kinds of warriors, archers, legions, catapults but when I attack a city they only do it one at a time? Unless I take the time, for example, to build catapult armies then any smaller units can just get wiped out one after the other no matter how many are there.
The graphics are far too childish - I'd expect them to be like this on the PSP not the PS3. It was Ok at first, but what's the point of having a machine that can do so much if you're going to waste it like this?
Ditto the voices of the characters - turned them off straight away
The rewards/gifts displays - didn't like them at all, more wasted programming - could have done FMV istead of copying the game style animation
The AI - found the random declarations of war to be strange (one turn you've just announced friendship then suddenly you're at war because you said no to one thing) and the statements from each leader to be extremely repetitive, just copied and pasted with minor variations.
Democracy - Not a serious one but - found it extremely annoying when this stopped me from my final attack because the "people wouldn't let me" - since when have democracies ever stopped leaders attacking places (didn't stop Tony and George did it?) ... so why can't I wipe out that city if I want to?
Anyway, I'm trading it in today.
Try renting before you buy :)
 Just one more go! June 23, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Okay, it was obvious comparisons were going to made between Civ 4 (the last instalment of the series) as well as earlier versions. What you've got to remember is that this NOT continuing from these series, this is Civilisation Revolution, a new start (we hope) and a new franchise, aimed towards a new market and hopefully take some existing fans with it.
I don't fall into either camp, I did have Civ4, but it was a bit long-winded (althought excellently executed), butI certainly don't have 60+ hours to invest in global domination..
So first the bad... yes, the maps are a little small (but not overly), the online aspect still appears to be work in progress (as I cannot connect to any game as of yet, but that's not too much of an issue, there's plenty to keep me going in the meantime!), yes after extended play there is a tendency for military might over and above culture / technology, but a little bit of skill and strategy and you can still build the United Nations and win...and yes, you could argue it's over too quickly (although, personally - 3+ hours is sufficient for one game for me!) finally, yes, a little more customisation certainly would have been appreciated...
And now the good... excellent controls, you can really notice how this was built for consoles, it's so easy to control..the advisors are always entertaining... big, bold, colourful graphics (1080p support) and entertaining battle animations, great sound, chunky fx and good range of music (even the original Civ4 theme is in there!) and the replayability of this is infinite.. I've been hammered so many times (on King level no less) and thought 'right, time to start again, my tactic this time will be...' - it's so involving! And the complexity is I think set just right, yes it would be good to be able to tweak a few other things in the cities, etc. but this is a new start and those are what will no doubt come in the sequels... Finally I want to address a comment made about this game 'you have seen everything there is to see after a few games..' - that's only partially true, and actually is a plus to this...Personally I want to see the effects of everything (Manhattan Project, etc.) so that I can choose to include / exclude it in my overall strategy...
As you can see, this game is going to generate a lot of debate, the demo is available on both Xbox Live and PSN - it's definitely a try before you buy... I bought it as soon as I'd played the demo, it really is that good.
 I am not a goldfish! June 20, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you take this game as if it was the only Civilisation game made, without reference to Civ III or Civ IV, then you could say it is a great strategy game with fair degree of depth, lovely graphics and intriguing gameplay. However, if you have played other Civ games then Civ Revelotion is such a let down. It is as if Sid Meier beleives that when I play console games I am hyperactive, action-crazed adreneline junkie with a concentration span of a goldfish, but when I play on my PC I am capable of deep analytic thought, multi tasking with the ability to focus on a game over many days. If you look at RPG's on consoles it shows we are capable of spending over 100 hours on one game. We don't need a streamlined Civ - if anything we would have valued added complexity especially to the diplomatic sections. So, if you haven't played a Civ game before, then this is a great game, but if you have then prepare yourself for a degree of disappointment, but still buy it because it is still the best strategy game on the PS3.
Civ, but not as you know it June 18, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I greeted the news of this first Civilization game on consoles since the PS1 days with something of a reserved excitement. After all, Sid Meier himself was on board (usually a sign of quality) however there remained in me a fear that a console specific Civ game would be simplified for the sake of being a console game. As suspected, I was right to expect a more streamlined game however I must say that I discovered by removing a lot of the micromanagement and complexity, Firaxis have succeeded in making a more focused game, easier to penetrate and a great multiplayer one to boot as well.
For the uninitiated, Civilization is a turn based strategy game. You begin with a small group of settlers based on the great Civilizations (Rome, Greece etc) and strive towards building a vast empire, growing by expanding your culture, developing scientific advances, creating new units and wonders and of course destroying your enemies.
The series began on the Amiga in 1993 and has spawned several sequels and add-ons over the years. With each successive instalment the game has increased in complexity adding new layers that present fresh challenges. Civ 3 and 4 are so in-depth that you could literally spend weeks playing just one game. The scope of the game is truly massive, encompassing all the ages and centuries. Games are played against a variety of other Civs (either AI or player controlled) and various factors can determine the winner; cultural, diplomatic, winning the space race or annihilating your opponents amongst them.
Civilization Revolution differs from its PC cousins. There are fewer units to build, fewer scientific advances. Gone are the complex negotiations you would carry out with other leaders and concepts like vassalage and unbreakable alliances. To give an example of how limited micro-management has become I can point out that workers are now automatically generated when you build new cities, and roads are simply purchased (and automatically built). The whole game has been stripped from the opening screen onwards. For example you now select your Civ and difficulty setting. You cannot choose the amount of opponents, map size or other variables. Real hardened fans may find this too simplistic, those coming into the series for the first time will find it perfectly balanced and not as intimidating as later Civs can prove to be on PC.
The interface is clean and has been cleverly designed around the PS3/360 pad. The developers have taken care not to utilise every button on the pad and this makes it easier to navigate. Selecting units, entering a city screen or engaging in diplomacy is all straight forward and players will adapt after a few turns. The game itself runs at 1080p and looks impressive for a strategy game, the humorous caricatures capturing the essence of the historical people they are meant to portray. The sound is inoffensive and forgettable, the simish speak grating after a while.
The average game lasts about 3-5 hours and those who enjoy the game on the easier settings will be eager to beat the more difficult settings. There are also scenarios, a game of the week mode and online multiplayer to add to the longevity of the title.
So is this worth getting? If you haven't experienced turn based strategy before then this is a great starter, if you absolutely hate strategy games then it is unlikely to convert you. For Civ fans I would say yes to all but the die-hards who must control every aspect of the game, they may find this too condensed for comfort. Others I believe will find it a breath of fresh air.
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