A simplified version of a Civilization game has always struck me as an oxymoron. Taking Firaxis’ famously addictive turn-based strategy series about guiding a nation from cavedwellers to spacefarers and trying to make that work as a quick and easy iPad game has, predictably, met with mixed results. Civilization Revolution 2 certainly does have trace amounts of that “just one more turn” momentum and tension, and it has the trademark hilariously warlike Gandhi, but it’s a pale shadow of the greatness of the full Civilization games.
Picking one of the 18 nicely varied leaders, ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Genghis Khan to a slightly disturbingly sexed-up version of Catherine the Great, and jumping onto a randomized map of colorful terrain squares works well with the iPad’s touch controls. Bonuses like the Romans’ half-price roads and the Mongols’ ability to conquer barbarian camps and turn them into free settlements really set them apart. However, if this is your first Civ Rev game, it might take a few games to learn crucial aspects of combat and trade that the tutorial and the surprisingly sparse Civilopedia don’t bother to tell you.
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