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| From: 2K Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 108
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: turn_based_strategy_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 39239
UPC: 710425392399
EAN: 0710425392399
ASIN: B000WMEEAI
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: brand new in packaging
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| Features:
| • | Choose from 16 Civilizations throughout history (from Africa to Germany to America to China) to lead to victory | | • | Triple your strength by combining up to three units into one powerful army and destroy your enemies | | • | Up to four players can battle as teams, head to head, or have a complete free-for-all online | | • | Guided tutorials teach players the necessary tools that will put them on the fast track to global dominance | | • | Custom made for the console |
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Product Description
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.
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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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 PLease, Sid August 10, 2008
Robert Macrae
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game had potential except that it kept ending as things started to build to an interesting point. This misfortune was the result of a time based engine that stopped the game - perhaps because the programing got too complicated for Mr. Meier- at odd and sometimes dramatically underplayed events during an arbitrary time run and was a misfortune in design, whether you won or not. My advice to Mr. Meier is not to name a game after yourself unless it is better than this one or your Japanese.
 Great Job Sid August 9, 2008
Charles Hourvitz (Worcester, MA)
I have played Civilization on my PC for years but enjoy the Xbox version much more. The game draws you in and before you turn around two or three hours have gone by like it was ten minutes.
 Nice Civilization for Consoles August 4, 2008
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2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been playing the Civilization series on Pc since it first started in 1991. This game is very similiar to the first civilzation. Sid Meier has made a great civilizaton game for consoles. This game is great if you want a shorter more simplier experience and also great for multiplayer. With Civilizaton IV it would take 6 or more hours to finish a decent sized game. Now with Civilization Revolution you can finish a game in under 4 hours. Also multiplayer used to take forever in Civilization IV so now that is also much shorter (about half the time) with Civilization Revolution. Keep in mind Civilzation Revolution doesnt have the depth and micro managing that Civilization IV has. Also doesnt have as much diplomacy. Its mostly about going to war and your limited to only 4 types of victories. The maps are also much smaller. Theres only nuke in the game. You cant play past 2100 AD. There are also only 16 civilizations compared to CIV IV Beyond the sword which has a total of 34. I can still see my self playing Civilization IV when I want a longer more in depth game. If I want a shorter game and maybe play multiplayer I would plya Civilization Revolution. There both good in their own ways. I am very glad they made Civilization Revolution and very happy with the end product. Very easy to use the xbox controller to navigate the units and other controls. Very well done Sid Meier and the team at Firaxis/2K games. Hopefully they will come out with more DLC and expansion packs with more Civs and maps. Easily the best console strategy game ever made. Worth every penny just like every other Civilization game ever made it has its amazing playability. Each game is completely different from each other and never gets boring.
Anyone who played the PC version cannot possibly like this game August 1, 2008
Daniel W. Noonan (Danbury, Connecticut USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
there is no possibal way anyone who played this on the PC will enjoy this game.. they cut it in half, more than in half even.. the graphics are cool, but at what price??? first off 1 nuke? 1 nuke??/ you have got to be kidding me? also you cant keep playing after a victory? what the heck is the point of this game? the civ games were among the best of all time as far as PC gaming is concerned. this however is easily the worse civ game that has come out.. hell even the colonazation game was better then this one.... gaming wise? biggest let down of the year.
 It Was Fun For a Few Hours July 28, 2008
Jeffrey S. Knapp (Harrisburg, PA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'll admit from the start that I'm more a fan of real-time strategy games. But since RTS games on consoles still haven't measured up to PC performance, I decided to give this game a rent. I'm glad I only spent $8 instead of $60!
It's a GOOD game - I had fun playing it... ...the first few times. After that it became very repetitive and I felt it growing old very quickly. In just one week of renting the game, I beat a game with every civilization (there are 16 if I recall) and won a game via every available method - Conquest, Technological, Financial, and Cultural. I finally reverted to the "lightning round" scenario games which only lasted about 15 minutes each.
I found that the maps - essentially a globe - were often very tight spaces and made expansion difficult to control. It was often challenging enough to find ROOM to place a city, nevermind finding good placement for producing various resources. This wasn't always an issue, but seemed to be the case more often than not.
The gibberish from the "assistants" quickly became annoying. I don't understand how, with gaming as advanced as it is today, characters can't TALK to us. My car talks to me, for crying out loud.
The end of each game is where things became the most frustrating. Often times I would simply be riding from turn to turn, trying to let every possible "great person" appear before time ran out. I would have 10-15 cities, each with every possible building upgrade. Yet every turn, I would be asked "What do you want to build in [city name.]" I didn't want to build anything! And to make matters worse, if you would start building a unit, there was no way to end production of that unit. The only option was to build a wonder, which would then complete the game. Furthermore, if the city builds a building and then you give it no additional item to build, it will store your production credits. Later, when you decide you want ONE military unit, it'll use all of it's stored production credits and build as many units as those credits will allow. One time, I tried to build ONE spy in a city that had been dormant for many turns - it built 57 of them!! This forced me to sit for a few minutes selling 56 of them back for gold credits.
The biggest downfall to Civ-Rev is a limited range of reuse. Yes there are 4 methods to victory and 16 different civilizations. There are also different scenarious that may place bigger emphasis on fighting Barbarians, or using naval strategy - even one that places you on a different planet and replaces Barbarians with Aliens. These give you a different look to things, but the game still plays the same. The only challenges left at that point are earning Xbox achievements, and some of them - such as winning each victory type in Deity difficulty (the hardest of 5 difficulties) can be downright impossible to some.
Some other quick notes - you can scroll quicker using the right stick - select a unit, right-stick scroll to where you want it to move, then just use the left stick to select the specific "tile" you want it to travel to. The lack of a better zoom in OR out was annoying. Yes you can zoom out, but not by much, and it is tediously slow. The ability to rush construction of units or buildings was helpful, as was the ability to cease production of a building and convert those credits to a unit. That came in especially helpful when an army would show up at my door and I had no defending units.
Give it a rent and have fun with it. But only those desperate to conquer the world with a console controller in their hands should consider this a needed purchase.
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