Customer Ratings & Reviews

"I've never played any of the previous Civilization installments but gave this one a try based on the demo. The game itself is incredible. The graphics are cartoonish and the "dialog" (which consists of nothing more than spoken jibberish whenever you highlight an action) is incessant and aggrivating, but the actual gameplay is very addictive. It is a turn-based strategy game and the basic premise is to dominate the world through technological advancement, cultural superiority, financial gain, or just plain brute force. The levels of difficulty range from too simple to nearly impossible and everything in between. The AI is fair for the most part except that as the difficulty rises, the computer tends to compensate for skill by giving itself unfair advantages, like expanding it's cities quicker than is normally possible. Also, the AI has the ability to demand money and technologies from you in exchange for peace while the player does not, something that will hopefully be addressed in a future patch. For anyone that is a fan of strategy games, turn-based or even real time, this game is a must have."

If you like Axis and Allies or Risk, you will enjoy this game. You can pick one of many historical leaders from many different civilizations or countries. There are 5 different levels ranging from easy/tutorial to hard. Each level has 4 different ways to win the game. The game doesn't take very long (compared to video games) to play. You can play the tutorial level in about 2 to 3 hours. As you progress to each level, it gets harder and more challenging. I would say the thing that is not so great is that there are only about 4 levels and about 4 different ways to win. You can only play this game 16 times. However, you can replay each level and try to win each way with many different people. Another feature that isn't so great is this is only a 1 player game. There is an online feature to play with multi-players. If you have a limited budget for video games, this is a good game!

This is a good game. Love the strategy and thought behind it but it is WAY too short. It would have been nice if they had more to it because within a couple hours this game is complete. The game is basically like Risk. The goal is global domnination and you are like God to the citizens. You tell them what to do, what to build, who to fight and they do it. You have the options of changing the way you want to rule i.e. democracy, monarchy, diety, etc. One good point with the game being so short is that you can replay in different modes with different characters, strengths, etc.., and you can keep changing things up to find out new ways for global domination. All it all, we are enjoying playing this game and hope that Sid Meier will come up with a longer version for the gaming consoles soon.

I have never played any of the civilization games and to tell the truth I never know anything about Sid. I downloaded the game off the Playstation network and was hooked once I finished my first turn. The concept is simple, the game play is simple, but in some odd way it gives some entertaining goals. The games offer four different ways to win and all four will take some good thinking on your part. You can make money, or get all of the greatest people in history, or lead your civilization to space, or just beat up every one until you’re the last man standing. I do not want to say to much but I do believe if you want something different, this is a game that should be added to your collection.

If you love history and games that you start from scratch you need this game. World domination and rewriting history while you play. I give this game 4 stars because the cons in this game is the game is too short and you only battle against 4 enemys. I love that the game has a different map every time you play and the all difficulties are great and challenging, they need to come out with another one that has more enemys during game play or give you the choice of 4-16 that would be awesome. And add more historical leaders!

I was probably the first person to buy this game, being a big fan of the Civilization series. I popped the game in and was eager to start playing. At first, I was very impressed. The concept of the army has finally hit home and there is no limit to your armed forces. The controls were intuitive and easy...but by the time I got to the end game, I had found some major issues with the game. In past games, you could upgrade old military units, for a price, to get modern units; not so in this game. The ONLY way to upgrade is if you build Leonardo's Workshop and then you can only upgrade those units you already have with the technology that you have already researched. If you fail to build this first, your Riflemen are stuck to share their Barracks with old Warriors and Horsemen. A second big problem I had was when I finally achieved nuclear technology and built the Manhattan project, I was able to have just a single nuclear device. Just one? To that end, it is more of a passive defensive decision than an offensive one. And finally, I was peeved when yet another installment of this game only permits a limited number of turns. By 2050, if you haven't won yet, the game decided it for you. There are many things that have improved in this version of Civilizations, but there are many more that are needed to get close to its potential. I would not recommend a friend to pay $60 for this game....just wait for the inevitable next one. As for me....I've already been trying to resell it.

I've played every Civilization since the first one. In fact I believe it should be in every Middle School classroom. That said: There are things I don't like about this one. I can't customize the game as I'd like. The maps are uniformally too small. And the showing of the building of the Wonders has been eliminated. The new gifts from the Phoneicians is OK. But kind of silly. Fireaxis has promised a weekly game. I did the first one and didn't like the fact that I couldn't save it. It took me several hours to complete and I don't really always have hours to play a game. In previous versions each of the advisors actually spoke in the language of the leader. This all seems gibberish. And some of the cartoon advisors, and leaders are a bit, well, cartoony. Overall it's a good port. I realize there are limitations with the graphics of the PS3 system. It takes a lot of memory. But if games like Assassins Creed can make Kirsten Bell recognizeable, then so should a game like this. Yes it's memory consuming for each character to speak in language and the game systems have limited hard drive space for this type of file. It's Civ. It's replayable. Hopefully the scenarios will add some life. And hopefully updates will allow for different resolution maps with more players.

I've never played any of the previous Civilization installments but gave this one a try based on the demo. The game itself is incredible. The graphics are cartoonish and the "dialog" (which consists of nothing more than spoken jibberish whenever you highlight an action) is incessant and aggrivating, but the actual gameplay is very addictive. It is a turn-based strategy game and the basic premise is to dominate the world through technological advancement, cultural superiority, financial gain, or just plain brute force. The levels of difficulty range from too simple to nearly impossible and everything in between. The AI is fair for the most part except that as the difficulty rises, the computer tends to compensate for skill by giving itself unfair advantages, like expanding it's cities quicker than is normally possible. Also, the AI has the ability to demand money and technologies from you in exchange for peace while the player does not, something that will hopefully be addressed in a future patch. For anyone that is a fan of strategy games, turn-based or even real time, this game is a must have.

I loved the look of the game. If you've played Civ on the computer the colors and graphics blow you away. The game is also way shorter than the computer game that gets bogged down with micro management of workers. The down side was that your diplomatic options were also decreased. I found the ancient artifact sites to be an interesting twist. All around fun game, if you like the civ series you'll like this game.

I downloaded a demo of this game and couldn't get enough, so I had to go buy the full version! The characters are somewhat cartoon-like and get very annoying popping up all the time. It would one thing if they actually spoke a real language, but they just mutter jibberish. That said, that is the only bad thing I can think of about this game. The difficulty ranges from unbelievably easy to holy-moly hard. You have to simultaneously defend your own cities, learn and use new technologies, take over other cities, and keep your citizens happy. You can choose to be one of 20 or so great historical leaders who have a variety of advantages as you progress through history (from 4000BC to 2100AD). Victory is achieved by domination, economic, cultural or technological progress. Each game is played against 4 other world leaders and their cultures. Once you defeat one of the other great leaders, it gets a whole lot easier. Getting to the end can be difficult, but FUN! Can't say enough about this great strategy game.

Since recovering from cancer, and not being able to work I tried this out since it reminded me of the old Populus games. Right now for me it's a little difficult to play, because of cancer problems, but as I get better I'm loving it more and more.

This game is a lot of fun, but it doesn't take long to become repetitive. You can do a lot of things in the game, but they are all available the first time you play. The game is fun and you will play it for many hours right away, but how many hours will it be total?

As a long time Civilization player on PC, I have a long lasting love for this series. When it comes to this new console port, all I have to say is that this game is awesome. You will always play against 4 other civilizations per game. The graphics are great and the gameplay does very well with the PS3 Dualshock 3 controller. The only thing missing is being able to paly against more civilizations as well as continuing on past the initial victory condition. I wish it had those features so that the game would just last longer. I recommend this game for everyone.

This is a great game, the second I have ever played of the Sid Meyers games. This is by far and above the best so far, and I am sure that there is more to come. Goes from yawning easy to panic attack hard for levels. They have released several free and pay upgrades to the game so far and I have them all. the game just keeps you in it.

This is a great game, this game has very good quality. This game also is fun because you get to use different nations and negotiate with different nations to get different technology. The demo was great, I can't imagine what the real game will be like.

The gameplay is quick and easy to pick up. There are plenty of details to learn and monitor in an effort to become the master of planet earth. I have only played the solo game and would recommend the game on the solo play alone, much less the added bonus of mutly player. The graphics are neat and the sounds are cool.

This is a truly great game. It lets you start from the stoneage to the space age. This unique purchuse lets you start a civilization with 16 unique civilizations.(ex Americans,Greek,Aztecks,Mongols,Japenese ect.) i would definly recommend this game.

This game was one of the best games I ever played... when if first came out. Now that this game came out I was not going to buy it, then after I read the back and it talked about all new content and the thought about traveling to space and beyond I bought it. There is nothing in this game that is new but the hall of fame and thats not worth the money to buy the game. Its the same thing over and over. Once you beat it its not real fun to play again since its all the same. After so many years the game ends itself, and if you win it one of the 4 ways then it ends and they dont let you continue to play like the older games. I wish I would have rented it before wasting my money.

great game on ps3 but no one reaslly plays it online but its fun anyway

I played the demo every day and bought the game as sson as t came out, and it was an excelent purchase. I spent 10 hours playing it the first two days I got it and it is still as fun as ever.