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An Old Favorite PC Game Adapts to the Xbox Era
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Wilson Gan, the proprietor of an eight-year-old Web site called CivFanatics.com, said the fans who frequent his site tend to be the ones who will miss the intricacies Meier has taken out of the new version of the game.
"People are definitely complaining," Gan said. He plans to pick up a copy for his PlayStation 3, even though he hopes Firaxis has another old-school version of Civ in the works.
"There's no way to please everybody," he said. Firaxis is "trying to bring more people to the series. It's always good to have more players."
This style of strategy games has not been popular on consoles, said Mike Hickey, a game industry analyst with Janco Partners. But, he said, Civilization is a powerful brand and Meier is a famous name.
"Sid Meier is one of the most respected developers in the industry, and this one of the biggest franchises in the world for that category of game," he said. "I think it has a shot of doing pretty well."
The early reviews have just started to come out -- and so far they've been favorable to the studio's new take on its famous franchise. At Metacritic.com, a Web site that tracks reviews for video games, TV shows and movies, the game has gotten an average score of 82 out of 100.
"It's still as life-suckingly addictive as ever," one critic wrote.
Another put it this way: "Old diehard fanatics will no doubt shake their fists at the slight console-friendly tweaks of the original formula . . . but hey, it's successfully infecting a whole new generation of gamers with Civ love, so get over it."
