broken in several ways, annoying, and phony.
User Rating: 6 | Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution PS3
Civilization revolution is indeed the best strategy game available for consoles to date, but unless strategy games are the only games you ever enjoy and you somehow still bought a console then this game is not for you. The basic controls are inflexible missing several options that would increase ease of use, for example there is no way to simply end your turn, you have to press the red button over and over again until you end your turn, granted this doesn't come up unless you're in a stand off. That is related to the main problem though which is that there are 4 ways to win, economic, cultural, scientific and military and the only one that you will ever use and have any enjoyment with is the military option. It was obviously a decision because you could say "4 ways to win" but if you actually get into a situation where it is possible to finish any of those modes you will end up waiting a long time and keeping you units at your cities which is boring and stocking up on units to develop culture will make you have to click through the endless list of units as said before. This game would be better if there weren't even the option to win those ways and just have culture, science and economy be major elements to help you take over with military might. Pretty much everything in the game manages to have a stuttery element to it or a pause, or a screen freeze. The controls are easy to get used to but you feel like you're a Napolean with a broken hand and the other hand behind your back, they're just very annoying. Anyways final thought, the basic problem here is that when you make a strategy game you either go all in or not. I know they were trying to make it more accessible but I've personally never played a civilization game and i am generally bad at strategy games and this game didn't change that, so there seems to be no reason for dumbing it down and removing the deep gameplay. I would've enjoyed this game if It was MORE complicated, making it less doesn't make it anymore accessible than it's ever been. Embarrassment for strategy games. 
