WARNING: This post violates the rules.
I know I’ve done some major rule breaking on this site recently, but there’s been a lot of fun CivRev stuff to talk about. To that, I’d like to add today’s NYTimes review by Seth Schiesel, which is pretty favorable. Here’s an excerpt:
…Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution is an almost complete triumph. Melding formidable intellectual depth with an unintimidating, relatively easy-to-grasp graphical presentation, the new Civilization is by far the best strategy game to grace a living room console. This is a console game that history and social studies teachers should encourage their students to enjoy. This is a game that parents should want to play with their children. And this is a game that will then incite some parents to send their kids to bed so the old folks don’t have to share.
Needless to say, I agree.



Congrats on the great review!
I love Schiesel’s stuff, but his recommendation that CivRev be used in a classroom shows he has either been out of school too long or he has really low expectations of what schools are teaching.
(I’m still on the fence with CivRev. The AI seems to play by entirely different rules once you hit a certain difficulty level, but I could be missing something.)