Sid Meier's Civilization: Revolution (Xbox 360) Reviews

Precceding his brilliant and highly successful PC versions Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution wanted to revolutionise to a brand new console and give a new civilization of gamers a real experiance of a highly addictive stragedy game. --- Gameplay --- Although a stragedy-turn based genre game does sound very ...  Read the complete review

Having played Age of Empires and Civilization on the PC I was eager to try the highly anticipated addition to the Civilization franchise. I found the transition from playing command and conqueor type games on the PC to the Xbox 360 was easy. It did not take too long to figure out the controls and get into the gameplay. ...  Read the complete review

The classic PC game hits the consoles with this new release from Firaxis. Obviously the original game design would not work as well with consoles as it does with the PC, therefore this game has various changes from the PC versions of civilization. For a start, the amount of time taken to complete a game is ...  Read the complete review

Sid Meier's Civilisation series has attracted a huge fan base over the years. The PC games have long been established chart toppers and so it was only a matter of time before a console version of Civilisation was developed. And so here we have it, Civilisation: Revolution and boy is it a disappointment. In order to make it playable using ...  Read the complete review

The Civilization Game Series is all about taking you nations from tribes in the stoneage to being the overall leader of the world. Though, the Xbox 360 version of this game is not like all the previous PC versions. For one, you don't have resources to collect and trade with neighbouring nations. In this game you basically control lots of ...  Read the complete review

"A Civilization for simpletons" - That's how I read the press release for Civilization Revolution. The whole idea of dumbing down the complex nature of running an entire civilization for the benefit of pad wielding console lovers made me overly cautious. I've been a huge fan of Civilization for years, often found at ...  Read the complete review

Sid Meirs Civilization series is one of the most respected on the PC; this game sets out to prove its still worthy of that respect on consoles. When you start off you will pick from one of the games many civilisations, each one of them has their own perks so that immediately gives the game an awful lot of replay ...  Read the complete review

civilization revolution may not be the most appropriate name for this title. maybe its more 'evolution'. anyone who was like me and really looking forward to the xbox 360's latest version of this epic pc title may be slightly disappointed with this console effort. the set up is exactly the same. you start off at the dawn of ...  Read the complete review

Sid Meier's "Civilization Revolution" has seemingly slipped under the radar of the gaming world and is frequently discarded due to the stereotypical belief that strategy games won't work on console platforms. Such strong opinions couldn't be more wrong. "Civilization Revolution" is a turn-based strategy game created ...  Read the complete review

I was given this game as a gift, and I didn't play it till months afterword. My first thoughts were, a strategy war game for the xbox, nah, not going to work. Boy was I wrong. This game encapsulates basic elements of the strategy game type, such as moves are played in turns and you move a certain number of squares each turn, but it gives ...  Read the complete review

This game is strangely addictive.I bought this game on a whim thinking it would be goood to try something different and now im hooked.Its very intuitive and easy to pick up if you have never played a strategy game before.Basically you start of with a set of settllers with whom you can found a city.You can then decide what to build in the ...  Read the complete review

Sid Meier is not a household name to most, but for exponents of PC gaming the man can be considered a legend. His games include Railroad Tycoon and the Pirates series. He has become so synonymous with a certain level of quality that he has been given the rare privilege of getting his name in the game titles hence games starting Sid ...  Read the complete review

To start off, I don't normally play strategy games (this is the first one if have bought), so it was a matter of chance, that I came across Civ Rev. It was one of those slow days when you are bored of the games you have at the moment and I was looking through all of the demos on XBL Marketplace and downloaded a few; Civ Rev being ...  Read the complete review