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By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:22:50 +0000

@Hentzau: I agree, something’s happened here and we aren’t going to see a re-release anytime soon. It’s such as shame that Big Huge Games’ is gone. Rise of Legends and Kingdoms of Amalur weren’t amazing, but they both had good ideas, strong execution, and once more showed that the devs were some smart people when it came to designing tight, functional systems.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 22:19:19 +0000

Yeah, looking back on it that Steam database entry hasn’t been touched in four months, which makes me think it’s fallen back into legal hell. Maybe I’ll fork out for a disc version at some point, but I’m actually pretty anti-physical copies these days since I can’t be bothered with the faff of installing/uninstalling things.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 22:17:13 +0000

I had fun with the DS version, but there’s no getting around the fact that Civ Rev was ultimately a much-simplified version of Civ 1, the most basic game in the main Civ series. It was just way too superficial for my tastes, and the thing is if you’re going to slap the Civ name on something there are certain expectations that arise, that Civ Rev most definitely did not fulfil.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:11:53 +0000

I quite liked the DS version, though it’s been a while since I played it.

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:44:26 +0000

While I never played it, the consensus was that it wasn’t nearly complex enough compared to other titles in the series and suffered for it. Also, while it was shorter than standard Civ titles, it still took 2-3 hours to play and apparently didn’t have a save feature (or a nonstandard one).

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:40:39 +0000

If you modify the resolution through the ini and run AA through your graphics card, the game looks quite nice (at least on a laptop).

If I was going to ask for one improvement it would, oddly, be the sound. The soundtrack remains great, but the sound effects always struck me as muted and weak.

By: Ninja Foodstuff

Ninja Foodstuff — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:37:20 +0000

Out of curiosity, what’s the issue with CivRev?

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 10:05:55 +0000

Ooh, very nice. Although if they charge £30 for an identical game with HD graphics, they can blow it up their bumhole.

By: Aleksei Volchok

Aleksei Volchok — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:54:10 +0000

http://steamdb.info/app/13900/#section_info It seems it’s really there, but I wonder why are they (whoever they are) so silent about it. Also it seems it’s just the basic version with add-on, no HD features. Though I certainly remember you can get any resolution by modifying ini-files, so they probably add this. Though the game doesn’t like widescreen and big resolutions – you get small font and bottom panel eating third of the screen.

By: Hentzau

Hentzau — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 08:40:06 +0000

Speaking of Rise of Nations, I believe that’s supposed to be coming to Steam soon (or at least the achievements have existed in their system for the last six months). I AM EXCITE, especially since I never really got to play it properly the first time around.