Civilization Revolution
By 2K Games
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Description
Build. Discover. Conquer. Rule the World!
Lead your civilization from the dawn of man to the modern age and beyond in Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution. Go head to head with history’s greatest leaders as you wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies, inspire your nation and build the most powerful empire the world has ever known.
For nearly two decades, the Sid Meier’s Civilization® franchise has been the benchmark for strategy gaming. Now the greatest strategy game of all time arrives for the Apple iPhone™ and iPod® touch with Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution™.
LEAD YOUR PEOPLE TO GREATNESS:
Choose your victory path: military, cultural, economic or scientific. However you choose to lead your people, there’s a way to win.
CHOOSE YOUR CIV:
Choose from 16 Civilizations throughout history (including America, Spain, China, Japan and Germany) to lead to victory.
INTENSE COMBAT:
Triple your strength by combining up to three units into one powerful army and destroy your enemies. Level them up through military victories to gain additional strength and new abilities.
TOUCH BASED CONTROLS:
Completely new interface designed for gesture-based controls. Zoom in with a pinch, move your units with a drag and scroll across the map with a flick.
ACCESSIBLE TO ALL:
Multiple difficulty levels, an integrated tutorial and friendly advisors are all here to help newcomers and seasoned Civ veterans alike.
SAME GAME, SMALLER SCREEN:
Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution for iPhone and iPod touch has all the same civilizations, gameplay and scenarios from the award winning console game. It’s all of the goodness of Civ right in the palm of your hands.
GLOBAL DOMINATION TO GO:
Conquer the world whenever you want, wherever you want, on your time. Save whenever you like, or just use the autosave feature if you get a call.
EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURES:
Coming soon in (free!) updates: Localized versions in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese, achievements, Twitter integration and more!
What's New In Version 1.5
·Civilization Revolution is now localized in French, Italian, German, and Spanish
·Crash bugs fixed
Customer Reviews
Excellent Port of DS Version, But Probably Daunting To New Players
I'm a huge Civlization fan and have played all the previous versions. I think this is a great rendition of Civilization Revolution ported over from the DS to the iphone. If you haven't played console versions before, revoution is sort of a simplifed version of Civilization. Most of the technologies and units are there, but a lot of the details are skimmed out. There are no workers, government types are watered down, no real upkeep or corruption-style mechanics exist and diplomactic options are pretty limited. It's not really better or worse than PC Civlization, just different.
The controls are not bad, but do take a little bit of getting used to. It can seem hard to move units long distances like someone else said, until you realize you can change the zoom level by pinching just like in photos. Neat! The graphics are good (better than the DS version), and the sound is great and not annoying (although there's no real music during the actual game). The game loads and saves quite quickly. There are alsolots of great scenarios in addition to the standard random map play. With that being said, there are a few things that keep it from being a 5-star game:
- NO CIVLIOPEDIA!! The civliopedia is an in-game encyclopedia detailing every structure, unit, terrain type, etc. The complete absence of it is almost a deal breaker, since you can't easily tell what stats units or buildings have until the moment you are ready to build them. You can't even tell what each government does until after you've declared anarchy! I have a lot of trouble planning ahead because of this.
- Poor documentation: Not really a huge deal if you've played civilization revolution before, but if you're new to civilization you would really have no idea how to play this complex game. Even if you have played the PC versions but not revolution you'd be fairly lost because this edition quite different. The only documentation that is provided is a series of static pictures with basic introductions to what each button does. I'm afraid there's going to be a lot of 1 star reviews from people who are frustrated and have no idea how to play this great game because they don't already understand it. Where are the great tutorials and advice other versions of the game have?
- No multiplayer: 'Nuff said.
- Standard Civilization Annoyances: Nothing specific to this game, but you'll still see tanks getting destroyed by pikemen, the computer randomly shuffling units back and forth across the same space while you wait forever, etc.
Overall, this is a great version for fans that know and love Civ. I wanted to just quickly try it out after buying it, and ended up playing a 6 hour long game. I'd reccomend it, but with caution if you have never played Civilization before as you might get lost easily.
A solid TBS experience with just enough depth to satisfy
Ever since the advent of the iTunes stores, turn-based strategy games have been one of the few areas that has seen minimal releases. While we’ve seen an uptick in the past few months with games that fall into this genre, they have been hit or miss for many. The epitome of turn-based gaming Civilization Revolution has finally arrived for the platform, and I have to say that the game has just enough depth to be engrossing. For the most part, Civilization Revolution is a well done game that should keep many occupied for days and weeks…unless you’re playing 24 hours a day.
As the title clearly implies, the game is about building and evolving a civilization from scratch which entails everything that you can imagine from generating loyalty among the population and developing technology and culture to all-out warfare and uncharted exploration. Civilization Revolution is an engrossing experience where you have the opportunity to build cities, negotiate treaties, and establish diplomacy. And, you’ll choose the path on which to set your civilization: military, cultural, economic, and scientific.
The game runs relatively smoothly on my iPod Touch 2g 3.0, and the graphics and animation are more than adequate along with the usual epic soundtrack. In fact, the interface feels polished and streamlined, and the game has the character I would expect from the Civilization series.
The game offers two game modes: Random Map and Scenarios. The Random Map for the most part provides a good variety of different environments, although hardcore gamers may find them a little repetitious. While Random Map provides an arbitrary map and the ability to create and mold a society, Scenarios provides 10 different situations each with different parameters that you’ll need to deal with usually involving a potential ruling power and their encroaching conquest. In other words, Civilization Revolution may not allow you to create your own maps, but all in all, there’s still plenty to do.
The game also has five levels of difficulty: Chieftain, Warlord, King, Emperor and Diety. From here, you’ll select a leader from among 16 of history’s most notable civilizations including Abraham Lincoln, Shaka Zulu, Napoleon, Cleopatra and Genghis Khan among others. While you begin as a small village regardless of game mode or leader, each civilization has unique abilities and bonuses that become apparent over time. The game is about micromanagement to a certain degree because decisions about training troops and sending out exploration or even to wage war will rest on your shoulders.
Civilization is about strategy and depending on which path you choose to win the game, you’ll have the flexibility to do so. At the heart of the game is gold, and figuring out how to earn gold. This can range from establishing trade agreements with other cultures to pillaging other villages and cities. With gold, you can then establish forces or build cultural centers. For example, if you want to adopt the scientific approach, you can build technologic libraries and scientific centers or even approve research in new areas of science. On the other hand, if you decide to go the world domination route with your armies, you can do that funding massive armies and sending them to destroy and conquer. The options are really only limited by your imagination.
During the game, conversations with your optional trade advisor or with other leaders are shown in pop-up dialogue boxes with multiple options to choose from. For example, other leaders may contact you to either negotiate a peace treaty or threaten you into giving them land or gold. Of course, your response will have profound implications.
The game has two maps: the general map and the city control map. The general map is where the tactical moves take place from troop movements to expanding settlements. From here, you access the city control map which is where you build units, roads, and buildings. While the city focus option also allows you to rearrange workers for food and production purposes, I found them a little basic but still decent.
To move units, you simply tap and drag them, or you can simply tap the unit and then touch the destination. I found the latter to be the better and more responsive of the two. Often what will happen is you will drag them which brings up a dotted line, and for whatever reason, the unit won’t move where you want.
By tapping a unit, options for using those units appear. For example, with settlers, options involve building and moving, while with military units, options focus around moving and attacking. The one nice thing with military units is when you select defend/attack, a pop-up appears showing who has the military advantage. And, once an attack is in play, an animated cut scene illustrates the attack taking place. Also, if you have three units of the same type on one map, they can be merged together into one super army.
So what do I think? I think Civilization Revolution is a very good game and arguably one of the best turn-based games available on the platform right now. Don’t get me wrong. The Random Maps may feel repetitious for hardcore gamers, and there isn’t the deep micromanagement that others may crave. But for the casual gamer, there is plenty of content and replayability. Overall, the game delivers a solid turn-based strategy experience that I would recommend.
Phone calls interrupt game...
Ouch -- I was doing well UNTIL I got a phone call. After the call, the game starts up again and you have to load as of your last saved game. I lost all of my progress. An auto-save would be nice...
While the game is great, it's hard to get past that.
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$6.99
- Category: Games
- Updated:Nov 24, 2009
- Current Version:1.5
- 1.5
- 80.9 MB
- Language:English
- Seller:2K Games
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Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 2.2 or later.
