So what do you think about MMOs?Sid Meier: I think someday I would like to try a game in that genre. It really benefits from creativity and new ideas, but we’re still in the very early stages of exploring the possibilities of it. I certainly would like to play around with a MMO concept in the future.Civilization Revolution is all the best parts of Civilization. Of course, we’re addressing a new audience, and we want to take the best advantage of the nextgen console hardware. We have a lot of animations, a lot of cool stuff going on on the screen. We want to take advantage of the network capabilities of Xbox Live and PlayStation Home. We really wanted to make games playable in a shorter amount of time. If you want to play a multiplayer game, not everybody has 10 or 15 hours to get a group of their friends together. So the game moves along at a nice, fast pace, and a lot of interesting things happen. The game still has got all the excitement of a Civilization game, like diplomacy, combat, economics, building, discovering, with a lot of new features added to it. There’s all the decision making which the fans love, you really get to be the king and lead your great civilization through thousands of years of history. But no, Revolution doesn’t have the micro management of hardcore strategy games.The focus testing we’ve done showed that people enjoy interacting with the great leaders of history, and having advisers coming up the screen and actually talk to them. It makes you feel you really are the king and that you’re making important decisions.
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