Each of these can only be built by a single civilization and require a large amount of resources and time to construct, but also offer significant bonuses to your civilization as a whole.Ĭonstruction of World Wonders and buildings that improve your civilization’s culture will also result in the appearance of Great People in your cities from time to time. Major projects, known as World Wonders can also be undertaken. Various new units, buildings, and world wonders become available as you research new technologies, and each building provides a unique bonus or ability to your city. In addition to building units and new cities, you must also build improvements within each of your cities. As your units win battles, their capabilities will also improve.įounding a new city is not a simple matter either, as the game provides a map rich in various terrain and resource types, each of which provide a bonus to any nearby cities, making it important to scout the map and choose the best possible location for your new cities. Once combat begins, an animation of the combat is displayed, with an option to withdraw still available should the combat be proceeding poorly. In the early stages of the game, little information is presented about your opponent you must research technologies and improve your unit capabilities to be able to gain more intelligence information. At the beginning of a potential combat session, you’re shown a display of the attacking and defending units’ relative abilities and given the option to either proceed with combat or withdraw.
Actual combat is automatically resolved based on typical RPG-style factors such as attacking strength, defending strength and unit health, with some randomness thrown in for luck. In some cases, barbarian villages will even offer to join your civilization as cities.Ĭombat in Civilization Revolution is a relatively simple affair from a gameplay point of view, involving more strategy than tactics. Villagers, on the other hand, are small non-aigned tribes which will usually be easily impressed by your civilization and offer to share information, technology, or gold or possibly even join your civilization as a new city.īarbarian villages are similar to normal villages but are defended by barbarians which you must defeat in order to capture the village and gain either gold or information from the village. Other civilizations will normally greet you neutrally, allowing you to decide whether you want to take a peaceful or hostile approach to them, although you will occasionally find exceptions, particularly in scenarios where another civilization is automatically your avowed enemy. As you explore the map, you’ll encounter other civilizations, small villages, and barbarians. Navigating within the game works much as you’d expect for a game on the iPhone or iPod touch: You tap on items to select them, zoom in and out with the standard two-finger pinch gesture, and pan around the map by dragging with one finger. In a scenario, your starting position will be determined by the nature of the scenario itself. The first thing you will normally do is build additional units, build some settlers to found new cities, and tell your science advisor which technologies you want to research to advance your civilization. In a random map game, Civilization Revolution automatically starts you out with a single city with a single warrior unit and no technologies researched beyond those provided as bonuses for your specific civilization. You can turn this off from the game options, or simply select the End Tutorial option from your advisor screens.
The first time you play the game your advisors appear to provide an in-game tutorial and take you through the early steps of the game. This allows you to choose a leader appropriate for the scenario or your preferred playing style, as well as offering some good variations in game play as each civilization will provide a different experience and require a different approach to game play, even in the same scenario.
Each leader has its own attributes and bonuses which you can view by tapping on the leader’s picture. Once you’ve chosen a difficulty level, you next choose from one of 16 specific civilizations and leaders you will be playing as.
You can choose to play that scenario, return to the list of scenarios, or page through to different scenario descriptions using the left and right arrows in the top corners of the screen, a nice touch that easily lets you find a scenario that interests you without having to move back and forth through the scenario list.Ĭivilization Revolution includes five difficulty levels that can be chosen for either a random map or a scenario. If you choose to play a scenario, you’re shown a description of the setting and goals for that particular scenario.
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