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Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $39.67
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Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 495
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 37240
Model: 15782691
UPC: 710425372407
EAN: 0710425372407
ASIN: B000WMEEBC
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 !!WARNING to potential buyers!! October 27, 2008
Flat our the poorest delivery of a "final" retail product I have ever seen. The game has a multitude of bugs both single player and mutliplayer. Online gaming does not function very well if at all. Single player has intermittent glitches that ruin gameplay if not reset the game. That aside, and thats a big thing to put aside, the game itself would be pretty decent. To date 10.27.08, no patch has been released to fix these problems.
I addition the company is releasing additional content for fees to add feature to the game such as more wonders and different scenarios, before the game is fixed. Arguable content that should have already been in the original game considering the core game is not very deep and may get boring very quickly only after a few days of gameplay.
Below is a link to the online forum @ 2k and a message from Firaxis. Note the negative reviews on the online forum.
http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20871
"Over the past few weeks it's come to our attention that many of our fans are having multiplayer problems with the PlayStation 3 version of Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution. While these problems did not present themselves during our QA process, or during certification with Sony, there is no doubt that they exist, and are a cause of frustration in the fan community.
To those who are having problems, please accept our sincerest apologies, and know that our team will be working with Sony and GameSpy to correct these issues as quickly as possible, because as it stands now, the multiplayer errors are unacceptable.
Thank you so much for your continued feedback, and we'll keep you updated as we make progress towards a solution.
Dennis Shirk
Marketing Manager
Firaxis Games"
 DO NOT BUY FOR PS3 October 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The PS3 version of this game sucks. It has bugs. I once sent an army of spies to attack a city and the battle animation went on forever until I rebooted the game. That is UNACCEPTABLE for a $60 game. The 3D characters are slow to load. That is unacceptable for a modern console game. Every time I attack with a bomber the animation starts getting choppy and screws up. There's another good review on here that talks about the PS3 support. Once again, another PS3 port is awful. Sony is so getting dreamcasted by Microsoft.
As far as the game goes, it's OK I guess, kind of a "baby" civ. If you've never played a Civ game before I could see you enjoying it. I've played it for a couple of days and I'm already tired of it. This one is going to Ebay soon.
Oh well. Better luck next time Sid.
 A.I. October 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Why is it that increase in difficulty equals AI opponents who are unrelenting homocial maniacs? While all other games in this genre seem to also have this problem, I'm not going to quit complaining about it. Looking at the news maybe it is indeed realistic. I'm not sure what a test of skill this game is but it's been fun to play through for the last week or so. I consider that a good 'hours of entertainment/dollar' ratio.
Rent, don't buy. October 12, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I must say that I am very disappointed in this game. I knew that it would be dummied down a lot from the PC version, but... well lets say that if the PC version was for someone with the mental capacity of a 15-20 year old, this is for the toddlers.
The lack of units, the pathetic quantity of civ interactions, the over simplified economies, and very few, mostly pointless resource types will leave you wondering if this was supposed to be a bargain bin $10 game meant for Windows 95. This game is certainly NOT worth $60.
I graphics are good, and that's why I gave them a 2 star. But even here, they get very tiring very quickly as you can't skip unit battles. Not a problem initially as it looks nice, but it does get extremely repetitious near the later eras when the PC players start spamming you with weak units.
If you played the PC versions, don't even look that this game, it will ruin your view of the whole concept of Civilization! If you have never played Civ on PC, then I would recommend you go out and rent this, marvel at the graphics, and then promptly return it after playing 2-3 times as you will have explored every part of the game by then.
Don't get me wrong, the simplicity is fun, but this game has little replay value, and that is the whole point of Civilization. Rent if you must, don't buy. If you are really interested in Civilization, go buy Civ 4.
 Fun Game, Challenging Game, Does not get boring!!!! October 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game is extremely fun and very rewarding to spend the time to win an epic battle. I have played at each of the different levels and have a wide range of challenges. Game play is fairly easy once you go thru the tutorial once, you will be playing like a champion. Online play was a little more difficult, I had some problems connecting to other games and waiting for the necessary amount of players to join. This would be my only complaint, since this was a little tedious at times.
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