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Sid Meier's Civilization: Revolution (Nintendo DS) | 
| From: Take 2 Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 429
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.8
EAN: 5026555042246
ASIN: B0015RPF2K
Release Date: August 29, 2008
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 Missing some options December 6, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
For anyone who has played Civilization before you will know what to expect here (choose a great world leader from history, build a civilization from the caveman era upwards and win through conquest, science, accumulation of wealth or through cultural development), but the point of this version is to make it accessible to the console owners, and this it does very well. The fiddly options of where to individually place each worker and assign them all tasks has gone. Instead you choose a focus for your city be it generating money, science or growth. In doing this it makes the game flow a lot smoother, but some options probably shouldn't have been taken out, like the ability to negotiate a right of passage through other people's land. In this version you can only cross someone's territory when you are at war with them so you can end up with some stuck troops or starting a war and then making peace two turns later when your troops are free.
You would expect the DS version to be most easily controlled by the stylus too, and it is true that you can use the stylus throughout without even touching a face button, but the game often misreads your intentions, moving troops when you wanted to select someone else, choosing wrong options in dialogue, etc. The game is far easier to control by the pad and face buttons and much quicker too!
My biggest gripe with this game though is that once you are used to the early difficulty levels and you become lost in a void of frustration. The first four difficulty levels become far too easy, and the final difficulty level is impossibly hard. I have tried to beat the game on the highest setting many times and the closest I have come is to build a final objective at the same time as the enemy, but somehow they manage to build it in two turns where it takes me at least 19. The game really does need another difficulty level before this final one, because, as it is, it's like running into a brick wall... that falls on you as you lay there stunned... and then each of the bricks individually blows up in your face... before a dog comes along and does it's business on the remains.
It's still fun though, while it lasts. There is inherent satisfaction in watching your cities grow and your troops advance on the enemy (if that is what you desire), but because the game has been essentially speed up for the short attention spans of console owners, there is little time or space for negotiations, development details and... fun really. Your left with the simple satisfaction of discovering technology and conquering other cities. Since I always liked the negotiation side of things, this version isn't really for me. Yet it's perfect for someone who always wanted to try out turn based strategy but felt overwhelmed by the wealth of options in the games. This is a great intro and will lead you into the world so you can go on to play bigger and better games of the genre.
 More addictive than crack cocaine October 11, 2008
Warning this game is highly addictive as you move your units around the globe and try and raise them from stone age amoebas to highly advanced in the space age. Use diplomacy and alliances in order to best position your 'civilization' to benefit from advances in culture and technology. The game is ideally suited to the ds and is very intuitive and satisfying if highly addictive. The poor graphics do not matter as the gameplay is so good.
 Disappointing with bad glitches September 24, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have the xbox 360 version and I thought portable civ rev would be great. I dont mind having cut down graphics but the gameplay just isnt as polished as on the xbox version. For example, on the view cities screen you dont see a grid with all the cities named, with production, gold, science & culture totals. You have to scroll and click on each city to find out their totals. I also didnt like not being able to see the units fortifying the city from within the city screen.
But THE KILLER for me is the interface glitches - during one game a sub got stuck and I couldnt move it at all for like 5 turns. Another example is a stack of ships next to an enemy city and another ship below the stack - I could not select the single ship at all.
 Age of Empires is better September 23, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had really looked forward to this having read various reviews but I found that it actually made me ill. The DSkept moving units all over the place and I found when I looked up from the screen I had to re-orientate myself and all this whizzing about made me feel sick (something I have never encountered before ) .I recommend Age of Empires , it's twice the game this is and you can take it at your own pace.
 Simply Addictive September 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I also haven't played any of the previous titles, so am basing my review purely on the product itself, and not my expectations of the product.
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.
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