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- Platform: Nintendo DS
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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.
The Civilization 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 addictive 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 for the Nintendo DS Features:
Choose Your Civ – Choose from 16 Civilizations throughout history (from Africa to Germany to America to China) to lead to victory. 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.
Interact with Characters – Leaders and advisors will show a range of emotions as they communicate with you, making the interactions highly engaging.
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 have a distinct team color representing your Civilization, so you will easily see them on the screen as you lead them into battle.
Multiplayer: The Best Ever! Up to 4 players can battle as teams, head to head, or have a complete free-for-all together in one place or over Wi-Fi.
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.
Game of the Week – Each week a new Firaxis created map will become available to players for download. You can practice the game all week on your DS and then compete against players online as you play the same map on your Xbox 360. 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 – There are hundreds of different ways to play the game and endless places to take it – Civ on a plane, in the car, in line at the MVA – any time, any place you want to play.
Tutorial – New players will be guided through games they play at the Chieftain difficulty level – they’ll learn from the masters and be well on their way to ruling the world.
Custom made for the DS: Intuitive and natural stylus control
Leaders, advisors and units designed specifically for the DS
Seamless interface to guide players through the game
Non-stop, take-it-with-you-anywhere action
Wi-Fi multiplayer competitions
Product Description
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 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.
- Intuitive and natural stylus control
- Leaders, advisors and units designed specifically for the DS
- Seamless interface to guide players through the game
- Non-stop, take-it-with-you-anywhere action
- Wi-Fi multiplayer competitions
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Customer Reviews
That being said, this game was far better than I expected. A mix between "age of empires" and "risk" is probably the best way to describe this game- you can choose to develop your civilisation via military might, trade, knowledge or culture, and you do so using a board game style "turn" system (which means you move all your pieces on your turn, and then wait for your opponents to move on theirs).
As a consequence of this you always want to stay on for "one more turn", and you will find yourself playing long into the night.
A great game.
I found the game to be perfectly suited to the DS console. The majorityof the time you can play using the stylus alone, although my house mate is now also addicted, and he barely uses it. As the game is about how you play it and not spectacular graphics, it fits what you need to see on the map & city screens, allowing you to straight-forwardly get on with ruling the world.
The controls and menu systems I found to be simple and intutive, I barley looked at the instruction booklet, and the game itself is really good fun. I can't stop playing, and because it's different everytime, I keep trying to improve and better my previous games. It will played over and over, for a good while yet. It's not one that can be completed and discarded.
The resulting game is a mixed blessing. Coming as part of a rash of console versions, it arrives as a trimmed down version, with a number of expected features and controls automated or absent. Trading is barely there, micro-management of the land surrounding your cities happens automatically, as does taking a hand in the more social-engineering aspects of the original versions. Additionally, the game has been designed with the console-player in mind, assuming a shorter attention span, necessitating smaller, more crowded maps where confrontations are inevitable.
Smaller omissions irritate too, there doesn't seem to be a way to set up production queues, for example.
But the magic is still there somewhere, and it doesn't take long before the familiar addiction takes hold. Before you know it, hours will have passed as you punch the `next turn' button one-last-time-no-honestly. The trick to it is that this isn't Civilization, it's Civilization Revolutions, it works differently and should be treated as a new game. In its own terms, it is very successful, but you should be wary about comparing it with that other Civilization game you've probably played before, as its considerably different.
It's a shame, too, that the developers didn't make more of the DS's interface advantages. Its true that around 90% of the game can be played with the stylus alone, but some of the functionality seems bolted on as an afterthought - scrolling around the map with the stylus is clunky and the pop-up widget to control the units references what amount to keyboard shortcuts. Based on the console version, this is clearly designed foremost with the D-pad in mind and this is a shame given how intuitive an interface might have been possible (Anno 1702 should be an object lesson here).
Despite all of this, the gameplay wins through and is occasionally very funny (Caesar has just offered me peace because he likes my Great Wall. What can I say? The guy must really like walls.) The multiply options are extensive, if you can find anyone patient enough to play through a full game. It's good, very good and if they can tweak the interface issues, CivRev II might even be perfect.
Fun and has a lot of good features but there is quite a bit missing. Read more
Only problem is that just once you start you cannot stop until all your enemies are defeated and you need to keep going until... Read more
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