Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution | 
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List Price: $29.99 Buy Used: $17.99 as of 11/24/2009 18:52 CST details You Save: $12.00 (40%)
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Platform: Xbox 360 Genre: turn_based_strategy_games ESRB: Everyone Media: Video Game Edition: Greatest Hits Autographed: No Memorabilia: No Number Of Items: 1 Batteries Included: No Age: 5 - 20 years Operating System: Xbox 360 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 39239 UPC: 710425392399 EAN: 0710425392399 ASIN: B000WMEEAI
Publication Date: July 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | 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 X360
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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. |  Lead Your Civilization View Image |  Discover New Technologies! View Image |
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A Kid's Thought November 7, 2009 This is honestly one of my favorite video games ever! I love strategy games and this is one of those. For those who love war games you can dominate a countries. For those who love building cities and technoledgy you can become a leader in technology and you can build lots of cities. You can play this game for hours of rainy days and it is great for both adults and children. I would recomend this to anyone looking for something new to try.
Civ 4- A revisitation to an EPIC franchise October 22, 2009 You know I'm right (Carmen San Diego) First let me state that I am a HUGE Civilization series fan. I have been in love since Civ 1 and have played EVERY version, every expansion, in fact as I am writing this, I am pretty confident that I have spent more time on this game then any other game in my life, EVER. So Kudos to Sid Meier and the team for keeping this franchise growing. But I envision spending less time on these then predecessors, will try and update on that later. Also be forewarned there are some potential _spoiler_ alerts here.
The transition of this type of game to a console was definitely fraught with hard work and dedicated teams of people to make it as smooth as possible and they did a great job. So quick shout out because this couldnt have been easy. Imperfect yes, but almost perfection, with some minor alterations, perhaps one day an updated patch or DLC.
Now on to the game itself. I gave it a 4 stars because it was a thoroughly enjoyable romp around the world, or through various scenarios, but for my hardened elitist tastes, there were a few things I missed from the originals that would have made this game (and developers for the 360, PLEASE TAKE NOTE) much more fun for me. Things I missed:
- Civilization city organization screens. For example, I want to convert all my science to gold quickly.
- The ability to play past game completion (already mentioned in other reviews, but I had to reiterate). For example, you just won an economic victory, so now you want to buy an army and smash someone with your tanks.
- * The customization of the board. For example, sometimes I want an arid board, or a wet board, or a huge board, or a small board, or a huge board with only one other enemy, or a small board with a hoarde of enemies. This was the ULTIMATE factor for me in enjoying the previous games while I waited for the next expansion/version to come out*
And NOW onto the things I loved about this game. I loved some of the new technologies and ways to win were expanded from previous versions. I especially enjoyed the additional space race components and building that huge container ship. It looked almost feasible, even possibly within our lifetime. I also enjoyed the spacing between how civilizations grew. For example, Egypt starts with a wonder of the world, and then when they "graduate" to a more modern level of society (4 total tiers in the game, including starting one) they add on various benefits (for example, better production from certain tiles). This is cool as it is perhaps the most customized portion of your game, selecting from a larger pool of benefits, some unique to specific countries (hint: India and Spain are great places to start, very powerful IMHO).
A few stickler notes, some of which also noted in other reviews, the moving the zoom function and moving from unit to unit can be a little cumbersome, but hardly noticable and definitely not enough to detract from overall gameplay. Also the advisors are super annoying, but I kind of just zone them out. Would be nice (see desire for customization above) to edit features such as this. Finally, last slight ping on this platinum series franchise, the games are too short. This kind of goes in line with previous issues with customization. Sometimes in previous versions I wanted a game that I could finish in one or two or three hours. And this game would suit that perfectly. But, sometimes I wanted a 10 or 12 hour (think back on the best Risk sessions you have ever had) epic session.
Final note, I have not plugged this into XBOX live (my account just lapsed) so I have zero clue whether multiplayer adds or subtracts from this review, I can only imagine that it adds more depth, if not more customization and obviously the ability to fight friends online. I will try and update once I get this plugged in. Can't wait!
SUMMARY
PROS
quick
fun
easy
greatest game franchise ever
CONS
quick
not customizable
annoying minor quirks (advisors, moving cursors, etc
OTHER
replayability??
FINAL AMAZON NOTE:
(I am a Prime Member) I ordered this product Thursday afternoon around 3 or 4 and by Friday when I got home from work at 6, I was logging hours enjoying it. One day shipping for the price of two day shipping.
THANKS AMAZON, lightning fast shipping!
cheap game October 15, 2009 Ry It's a rather long and drawn out game that literally takes hours to play. The game it self is [...] bucks at walmart and toys r us.
good game, my boyfriend loved it October 4, 2009 Kayla M. Huggins the game has great graphics, and you can always do alot with these kinds of games (story mode). I bought it for my boyfriend as a gift and he really likes it plays it all the time.
Civ Rev = AMAZING! August 31, 2009 MJ Roberts (Metro Detroit, MI) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've spent countless hours playing this game. If my girl had it her way, Sid Meier would be imprisoned for making this time consuming, attention stealing masterpiece!
Be sure to download Civ Rev to your 360 hard drive because your will wear the disc RTFO!
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