I’ve been having a lot of fun fiddling with the Civilization Revolution demo in the last couple of days. I’d guess that most PC gamers have played one of the Civs back in the day, but I only ever played Colonization back on my Amiga. My recollection is that I loved it, so I’m not sure why Civilization passed me by.
In any case, the CivRev demo is out now for PS3 and Xbox360 and gives a good taste of the game. There’s enough time for you to start being unruly – I created a bunch of catapults and destroyed Athens – but not enough to truly start getting into the diplomacy and trading aspects. There’s help available (with Sim-style advisors yammering away), but I’m going to need the manual to completely understand the workings of the turn system.
I’ve already pre-ordered the game (from Play Asia as Amazon won’t take my money for electronics or games) – if you happen to have the PS3 demo, get in touch and we can try out the multiplayer?
