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| From: Take 2 Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 861
Platform: Playstation 3
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
EAN: 5026555401265
ASIN: B0015RPF3Y
Release Date: June 13, 2008
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 Wheres it all gone? August 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've most of the CIVs on the PC so am pretty familiar with the game anyway so could just dive straight in.
But hang on, wheres it all gone?
In the PC version you could alter the map size, the amount of land, the prevailing terrain types, wet/dry etc. Many other options were available for no of computer players etc. None of that is here. This means that you are essentially limited to a pretty 1 dimentional game.
The AI is pretty boring, every basically declares war on you pretty quickly and never offers peace unless they are going to be annihilated
There are also far fewer technologies, buildings and troops.
Once you get to the modern era everything moves at a shockingly fast pace and the game ends pretty soon after you get there, one way or another.
Basically a few pretty graphics(which don't add any gameplay) doesn't really make up for the loss in gameplay.
All in all a big disappointment for me.
 dull waste July 29, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Liked the demo and the idea. Played it for 3 hours or so and i seem to have won. Cant help feeling a little put out by the credits rolling in front of me after less than a days play. Looks like the demo is the best bit of it. I simply kept peace with everyone until i had built up a large army and then massacred the board. This was even though the technology of my warriors was still bow and arrow standard. 2nd go i tried a bit harder not to win and at least got to where i had guns. But my ships suddenly upgraded from sad looking chinese junk contraptions to world war 2 standard battleships so again i just massacred the board. The gibberish from the other world leaders and especially from the crazed hair monster that tries to advise you quickly become annoying. They seem clueless in anticipating what you are going to do or in terms of how they could counter you by cooperating. Your kid will show more tactical guile at the candy counter before the checkout on a Saturday morning. Maybe i am just Rommel and Monty combined, but i doubt it. At least we do not have to endure any super tedious assertions like George Washington was a peerless commander, and for that i genuinely commend the publisher. However, i have to say that if the real Queen Elizabeth had reached the conclusion that obviously that vast army camped offshore was just sight seeing then i would now be finishing this review with adios senor.
 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
4 out of 6 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
8 out of 9 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.
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