When Avault's Michael Rabalais told his friends he had been assigned to review the Civilization Facebook game, their reaction was to laugh in his face. Social games aren’t especially well received by the hardcore gamer community, and after wiping the tears from his still wet eyes, he promised himself that he would remain resolute in providing an objective and thorough review of a product he had never envisioned himself playing. Civilization World is a game he played on Facebook. It doesn’t get much more objective than that.
LAS VEGAS -- Civilization is one of the gods of strategy games, where you oversee the creation of a whole society in competition with other civilizations. It debuted in 1991, and now at 25, it has become one of the cultural touchstones of the game industry, something that everyone recognizes or has played in the past.
Maybe I'm saying this because my PC is shit but I really would like a good console Civilization game on par with the PC ones.
Civilization Revolution wasn't half bad...just dumbed down a bit
Interesting stats, but they missed the most important ones- how many relationships were ruined? And how many jobs were lost?
I still remember the day my dad finally convinced me to go and peel the potatoes by turning off the power to the entire house.
I think I lost about 5 hours worth of game play that day.
The end is nigh! After two years on Facebook, the CivWorld is set to face its very own Armageddon in two months time.
Edge: "Falling sales of 'me-too' games mean devs need to better understand player psychology, says Graham McAllister."
