Civilization Revolution

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Civilization Revolution (full title: Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution) is a new iteration of Civilization being developed by Firaxis with Sid Meier as designer for seventh generation consoles and hand-helds. The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo DS versions are due for release in early 2008.

A Wii version was originally expected but was put on indefinite hold. The lack of a PlayStation Portable version was attributed to a lack of development manpower.^[1] They did not preclude the development of a PSP version in the future.

Meier has been enthusiastic about this installment, being quoted in both the press release and trailer as saying, "This is the game I've always wanted to make."

Contents 1 Announced features 1.1 Multiplayer 2 Postponement/cancellation of Wii edition 3 Previews 4 External links 5 References

[edit] Announced features

• 16 Civilizations with corresponding historical leaders
• Streamlined time scale for quicker play
• Fully featured online play, including auto-matching, ranked games, and leaderboards
• Voice and vision chat
• Downloadable content and Achievements
• civipedia
• Advisors

[edit] Multiplayer

Civilization Revolution will feature some robust multiplayer options including ranked games for up to four players (including four-player free for all, 1-on-1 duels, or 2-on-2 team matches), as well as leaderboards and support for video chat.^[2]

The game will also feature a "game of the week" mode which will allow players to download a certain game setup each week. Players will then be able to compete for the best single player score with this game setup.

[edit] Postponement/cancellation of Wii edition

On February 4, 2008 2K Games and Firaxis announced that the Wii iteration of Civilization Revolution was put on indefinite hold due to lack of manpower and no PlayStation 2 or PlayStation Portable editions of the game to share assets with. Firaxis programmer Scott Lewis explained, "CivRev was originally a 360/PS3 project and was in development for over a year before the Wii/DS platforms were added, largely because we saw the success of those platforms and a lot of people (including myself) were very excited about them... The result was that the time and effort it would have taken to remake a game built for higher-end hardware from the ground up would simply have been too costly."^[3]

[edit] Previews

• GameSpy (E3 2007)
• GameSpot (E3 2007)

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Official press release
• GameVideos.com official trailer
• Civilization Revolution on IGN
• Trailer and Screenshots
• [1]
• [2]

[edit] References

Firaxis Explains Civilization Revolution Wii Postponement (Gamasutra.com)

Sid Meier's Civilization

Official series: Civilization (MicroProse, 1991) Civilization II (MicroProse, 1996) Civilization III (Firaxis, 2001) + Play the World (2002) + Conquests (2003) Civilization IV (Firaxis, 2005) + Warlords (2006) + Beyond the Sword (2007) Related games: Sid Meier's Colonization (MicroProse, 1994) Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (Firaxis, 1999) + Alien Crossfire (1999) Other games: Freeciv (The Freeciv developers, 1996-2008) Civilization: Call to Power (Activision, 1999) Civilization II: Test of Time (MicroProse, 1999) Call to Power II (Activision, 2000) C-evo (Steffen Gerlach, 2006) CivCity: Rome (Firefly Studios, 2006)

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