Civ Rev interview discusses new features, old features

by David Hinkle { Sep 24th 2007 at 11:12PM }

While long-time Nintendo fans might not be all too familiar with the franchise, Civilization has managed to constantly impress and push the envelope iteration after iteration. And, it should have came as no surprise that once it was revealed for the Wii, we were immediately smitten (the inclusion of online play helped). But, this isn't your grandpa's Civilization title, now is it?

During an interview with CVG, Firaxis's Tim McCracken points out that this is a totally new Civilization game, built from the ground up for consoles. It should be noted that there is no shortage of nations on the consoles, either, as Time points out players can play as 16 different nations. From "Alexander the Great, to Bismarck, to Cleopatra - you can play as them and against them." Also, the addition of army creation (where the player takes three of same type of units, places them into the same square, giving that particular army three times the power of the single unit alone). Sounds great to us!

That's not to say some of the other aspects of the franchise didn't make their way into Revolution, as players can still win by making it off the planet to Alpha Centauri, as well as through this blogger's preferred method of victory: global domination.

Tags: 2k, civilixstion-revolution, civilization, firaxis

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mian @ Sep 25th 2007 12:01AM

"The ability to form armies is cool thing we have in Civilization Revolution."

The interview really does make army creation sound like some sort of new feature. Civ III has it. It's hard to imagine that IV wouldn't have.

Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Sep 25th 2007 1:18AM

Global domination? Pfshshshsss... It's all about Alpha Centauri. That's UNIVERSAL DOMINATION baby.

::realizes he just called David "baby", cries self to sleep::

Quiggy @ Sep 25th 2007 6:41PM

Mian, I haven't played Civ 4 so I can't speak for that game, but in Civ 3 the armies functioned differently from what this guy is saying. Civ 3 armies needed a leader to function, which were hard to get, and also didn't allow you to retain all previous abilities of the units in the army. It sounds like this one allows you to build your own armies any time in order to mix and match abilities.