{"id":692,"date":"2007-06-28T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/28\/civ-for-consoles\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T11:09:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T15:09:41","slug":"civ-for-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/28\/civ-for-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Civ For Consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"

2k Games has announced Civilization Revolutions<\/em>, a next gen console title based on the Civ series. From the press release:<\/p>\n

Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution<\/em> is a watershed game, offering players a chance to experience the epic empire-building world of Civilization in an all new accessible, visually immersive, and action-packed world specifically designed for the console and handheld gamer. Delivering Civilization<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s renowned epic single-player campaigns featuring vast re-playability and unmatched addictive gameplay as well as revolutionary features like real-time interaction with leaders and advisors, extensive multiplayer capabilities and integrated video and voice chat, it will completely transport the Civilization<\/em> series to a level of gameplay that fans have never seen before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, from a forum post by Firaxis’s Scott Lewis<\/a>, news that Sid Meier himself is taking the lead on this one, doing the main design and AI stuff.<\/p>\n

This shouldn’t be that surprising. Meier has often publicly expressed his love of console games and I’ve heard him say that the plop-and-play of consoles – minimal patching, no configuration issues – is something he’d love for PC games. Plus, there is really no reason that a turn based strategy game can’t run well on a console. TBS games are about selecting and moving with none of the haste and precision that RTS titles require.<\/p>\n

Lots of curiosities in the press release though, archives of buzz words, talking points and insanity.<\/p>\n

“Real time interaction with leaders” – I could use a translation here. “Action packed” – Are they going to make me be the longbowman? And the artwork (all taken from Games Press) shows a lighter touch than we are used to in the Civ series. For some reason, Cleopatra is half-naked<\/a> (Cleo’s not in Civilization IV<\/em> at all) and the wonder\/relic artwork<\/a> would look completely in place in Settlers II<\/em>. And I think that pagoda looks like a Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this is an early 2008 release, so there’s a lot to figure out between now and then. Consider me interested, but not excited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2k Games has announced Civilization Revolutions, a next gen console title based on the Civ series. From the press release: Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution is a watershed game, offering players a chance to experience the epic empire-building world of Civilization in an all new accessible, visually immersive, and action-packed world specifically designed for the console […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[74,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-ba","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}