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ctcoggin's Civilization Revolution (iPod) (Other)
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| [August 23, 2009 09:09:41 PM]
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Summary
I recently played Civilization Revolution for the iPod Touch. Civilization is a turn based strategy game in which players assume the roles of famous world leaders such as Caesar or Napoleon and attempt to lead that civilization to world dominance. In the game there are a few ways to win, be a war monger and go in to destroy the other civilizations, build all the forty seven technologies for a technological victory, hit eight economic milestones and achieve an economic victory, or have a total or either great people or great wonders in your city or a cultural victory.
Gameplay
When I first started playing the game I noticed it had an easy to follow user interface and I quickly had my difficulty and map chosen and was on to the character selection screen. Here I was able to scroll through the list of world leader with the touch screen and view each leaders set of perks that make him/her better than the other characters. I chose Caesar as I am a Roman history buff. The game knew it was my first time playing and asked me to take a tutorial which I declined as I like to know how to do things by trying. I quickly found this was a terrible idea when I lost in 4 turns. So I was off to start again.
Gameplay 2
On my second run of the game I felt a little better and got more into the game. Seeing the different civilizations with famous cities such as Rome, Washington, and Paris was cool. I was quickly drawn into the game trying to advance my civilization to produce better attack units to take over. I soon realized that you not only have to try to take over the map but also keep your own cities happy as anarchy soon swept through and I could no longer build. I was intrigued that the game play was so in-depth, I was soon at war with Gangues Khan, had alliance with Abraham Lincoln, and was trading goods with Alexander the Great. After about 30 minutes I progressed from a republic to Communism, archers to tanks had taken over the map.
Design
I would highly recommend Civilization Revolution to anyone who enjoys turn based strategy games. The flow of the game is great and the touch screen controls are pretty much flawless and very easy to use. All of the buttons are fairly large on the screen and getting a character to move is as simple as a drag of a finger. Combat is simulated for you so all you have to worry about is building strong units/armies. I really enjoyed the simplistic nature of the combat as it made me feel as if I were playing “Risk”. The AI in the game was very well done as other nations will try to barter, ally, and also declare war with you. The computer moves are well designed and are aggressive, making the game very challenging. If I were to take something away from this for the design of my own game, it would be the idea of familiar historical characters as main characters. I think this idea helps the player relate to the game and automatically chose a favorite character.
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ctcoggin's Civilization Revolution (iPod) (Other)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Sunday 23 August, 2009
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