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Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution

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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User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Hours of enjoyment
I’m sorry, I’m addicted to this game - but I liked Civ on the PC too. The multilayer aspect is great. Well done Sid! More!

3 Stars Fun if you’ve never played the PC version
This game is not as good as the PC version. I would recommend it only for someone who wants to get his/her feet wet with Civilization games. Once they’ve acquired a liking, they should move up to the PC where the game play is much more interesting and addictive. I bought this game new, played it once, beat it, and have never picked it up again after six months.

5 Stars Best RTS game on a console
i really enjoy this game. i keep running out of time once my civ reaches outter space. im still trying to figure out online play. it seems i get destroyed there. i dont know how people get so advanced so quickly on there.

4 Stars It’s pretty good.
I have Civ 4, Warlords, etc… and I was somewhat disappointed with Civ Revolution.

Something that I found interesting…the barbarians aren’t aggressive. At all. Meaning–you don’t have to worry about them trying to raze your city to the ground. They’re pretty weak and docile. They’re ‘goodie huts’.

The barbarian scenario was a joke, imo.

…too bad the other civilizations aren’t! Sheesh…

LOL

You’ll be fighting before you even get settled into the game. I nearly lost 2 cities the first time I played!

I’m the type of Civ player who concentrate on multiple cities with huge populations, building great works, discovering new lands, increasing the size of my economy. I just want my cities to be a beacon of culture.

I always build barracks before anything else but I don’t seek to dominate.

Now on the PC version…I often start with ‘raging barbarians’ but I usually don’t start picking fights w/other civs until the middle ages when the civs invade my space by settling their cities too near to mine. It pisses me off…lol

So the aggressiveness of the other civs in ‘Revolution’ took some getting used to. I dare not play at the highest level…I’d get wiped out!

Some things I’d change:

-Music! I need music! That’s one of the best things about the Civ game series.

-I wish the 360 version had more options in creating your world. It’d be nice to control the game pace. I always play on ‘marathon’.

But—this is a good game, I think.

4 Stars More Civ = More Fun
This isn’t the full Civilization experience, I’ll grant you, but it’s enough to hook you. Consider this game the gateway to Civilization. You can pick this game up and play right away and get much of the same experience as (the far superior) PC version.

But comparisons don’t really fit between strategy games on consoles and PCs. PCs rule this area because of the controls available on the keyboard and mouse and the customization. So taking Civ Rev as it is (pretend there was no Civ on PC) and we would all love it.

Sure there are some glitches: not being able to change city production to Gold, how quickly we move through the modern era, etc. But overall this is the best strategy game on Xbox.

I can still sit down for a brief Civ game and end up hours later asking where the time went. This game has that “One more turn…” that makes all the Civ games special.

For that, I highly recommend this game. Especially at the low price point.

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