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Sid Meier's Civilization: Revolution (Nintendo DS) | 
 enlarge | From: Take 2 Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
Buy New: £17.99
You Save: £12.00 (40%)
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 777
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: world-builder-strategy-games
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
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Simply Addictive September 22, 2008
1 out of 1 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.
 Civ Too September 8, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
The venerable Civilization franchise should, by rights, be a perfect fit for the DS. The turn-based pace is ideal for a hand-held game where a combination of dexterity and tiny controls can often frustrate. The interface, designed for a mouse-and-pointer should be comfortably replicated with the DS's touch screen and the fact that graphics and sounds are the least important aspects of the game is just a bonus.
The resulting game is a mixed blessing. Coming as part of a rash of console versions, it arrives as a trimmed down version, with a number of expected features and controls automated or absent. Trading is barely there, micro-management of the land surrounding your cities happens automatically, as does taking a hand in the more social-engineering aspects of the original versions. Additionally, the game has been designed with the console-player in mind, assuming a shorter attention span, necessitating smaller, more crowded maps where confrontations are inevitable.
Smaller omissions irritate too, there doesn't seem to be a way to set up production queues, for example.
But the magic is still there somewhere, and it doesn't take long before the familiar addiction takes hold. Before you know it, hours will have passed as you punch the `next turn' button one-last-time-no-honestly. The trick to it is that this isn't Civilization, it's Civilization Revolutions, it works differently and should be treated as a new game. In its own terms, it is very successful, but you should be wary about comparing it with that other Civilization game you've probably played before, as its considerably different.
It's a shame, too, that the developers didn't make more of the DS's interface advantages. Its true that around 90% of the game can be played with the stylus alone, but some of the functionality seems bolted on as an afterthought - scrolling around the map with the stylus is clunky and the pop-up widget to control the units references what amount to keyboard shortcuts. Based on the console version, this is clearly designed foremost with the D-pad in mind and this is a shame given how intuitive an interface might have been possible (Anno 1702 should be an object lesson here).
Despite all of this, the gameplay wins through and is occasionally very funny (Caesar has just offered me peace because he likes my Great Wall. What can I say? The guy must really like walls.) The multiply options are extensive, if you can find anyone patient enough to play through a full game. It's good, very good and if they can tweak the interface issues, CivRev II might even be perfect.
Very, very addictive! September 18, 2008
First of all, ive never played civilisation before (on any platform), so am in no position to compare this to the other games in the series. No doubt some aspects of the game have had to be scaled back to fit the game onto a console.
That being said, this game was far better than I expected. A mix between "age of empires" and "risk" is probably the best way to describe this game- you can choose to develop your civilisation via military might, trade, knowledge or culture, and you do so using a board game style "turn" system (which means you move all your pieces on your turn, and then wait for your opponents to move on theirs).
As a consequence of this you always want to stay on for "one more turn", and you will find yourself playing long into the night.
A great game.
97 all over again September 19, 2008
when i got my 1st pc i was given civ 2 & i got addicted big time.
so now i have a DS & having not played civ for 10 yrs i am addicted again.
chieftain level is a breeze, the indians are the best to be i find, bloody longbow archers that the english have slaughter my attacking troops tho.
the map is fairly big, gets a bit dizzy working out where my ship is sailing to.
this game is great for the DS, you can play it in shortbursts although more often not you will find yourself playing several hours solid determined to conquer all.
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.
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