Game developer Firaxis also puts out a different downloadable game scenario each week (on Sundays) where everyone begins with exactly the same starting point, location and civilization. Multiplayer allows for up to four players online to do battle as teams, go head to head, or have a massive freaky free-for-all.
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The addition of the online multiplayer certainly adds to a gaming experience that is already bursting at the seams with longevity. The music is also subtlety influenced by what culture your chosen civilisation represents.Ĭiv Rev is all about instant action and addictive fun and it really does deliver. To complement the detailed graphics is an equally detailed soundtrack quietly incidental when you’re in the midst of gameplay but punctuating dramatically key events or achievements with big orchestral swells. Your city’s buildings are all representative of your chosen civilisation and the wonders that you can create are deliciously detailed. That said, the graphics are vivid, dramatic and very well animated going into battle, for instance, has never been so satisfying. Sure there are deserts, mountains and snow fields but there’s no real point of difference from continent to continent. Considering the game is supposed to be representative of the entire globe you don’t get a real sense of scope. My final and most minor gripe is to do with the look of the world maps your trying to conquer it’s all so similar. Incidentally, the designers obviously have a wicked sense of humour, as the aforementioned diplomatic advisor from the modern era is a dead-ringer for Condoleezza Rice - nice one. This repetition did get a little trying after a while. I’ve never minded the characters in the Sid Meier universe, you know, the cartoony ones that talk gibberish? But I don’t need to be told at every turn by an advisor that the ‘United Nations Wonder’ can now be built. It’s this lack of hands on control in a genre that is all about control where Civ Rev suffers the most. Too bad if you don’t want them to plough a field there because that’s where they’re going to plough one. Even before the game came out I was expecting this but I still felt wanting for micro management particularly when dealing with villages, you just leave them to it.
#Civilization revolution xbox 360 multiplayer Pc#
If I have the choice I always like to hear the bad new first, so here goes: Civilization Revolution has been developed specifically with gaming console in mind so as you’d expect some of the depth found in the earlier PC versions has been sacrificed for an easier more casual gaming approach. Each civilisation has its own special abilities, strengths and weaknesses but they’re all pretty well rounded and no culture is grossly out classed by another.
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You choose your civilisation (I spell the Queen’s English) from one of 16 cultures each headed by a famous historical figure, Abe Lincoln, Napoleon, Montezuma, Helen Clark (kidding!). How you win is entirely up to you, wage war on neighbouring Super-powers, conduct yourself diplomatically - yeah right, or discover new and formidable technologies. Players strive to become ‘the Ruler of the entire World.’ You achieve this by creating and leading a civilization from the knuckle-dragging dawn of man into the space age and beyond. Just make sure you do this before 16th March 2014 as after that time the game will be raised back to its usual price.Civilization Revolution is a turn based strategy game. To download, follow this helpful link to the Xbox Games Store and click the relevant buttons. The famously addictive gameplay, endless ways to play and Xbox LIVE multiplayer competitions, matchmaking, Leaderboards, Achievements and downloadable content will keep you coming back for more. Go head to head with history’s greatest leaders as you wage war, conduct diplomacy, discover new technologies and build the most powerful empire the world has ever known. Legendary game designer Sid Meier brings the greatest strategy game of all time to the Xbox 360 console! Built from the ground up for the Xbox 360 console, Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution challenges you to lead your chosen nation from the dawn of man to the space age on your quest to rule the world. Surely that’s a decent enough score for something that will be free?
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First out back in 2008, Revolution is currently holding it’s own with an 84/100 on Metacritic.