Nor is pressure - this is turn-based strategy, not real-time warmongering. Granted, it eats all the controller buttons it can, but subtly retains brief legends of what does what throughout the game, so memorisation isn't a problem. One thumbstick orders, the other stick looks, and suddenly navigating a vast worldmap seems no trouble at all.
While prior console versions have simply seen the PC's mouse controls and itty-bitty icons mapped wretchedly onto a d-pad, this really is a fresh start. It's very obvious when a metropolis is doing well for itself.
Cities visibly swell and change as you add buildings to them. With a worry-disarming cartoonish graphical style - The Sims is a clear influence, even down to characters' nonsense-speak - and large, friendly menus distilled into the bare essentials rather than the stat-attack of yesteryear, this is genuinely a new Civ for a new audience. Civ 4 did wonders for a series previously in danger of death by feature creep, but it was still a little daunting to entirely novice eyes.
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Most of the strategy stalwart's organs have survived their next-gen transplant intact (360 code was on offer at the event we attended, but it's also on PS3), and yet it immediately seems more amicable and manageable than its PC predecessor. It's very much still Civilization - don't worry about that. I felt a little like I'd spent years diligently crushing and fermenting grapes whenever I fancied a tipple, only for some passing helpful soul to observe that they sell wine for four quid a bottle in Tesco's. I had to unlearn hard in order to learn easy. This was because it was simpler, more obvious - because it wasn't expecting me to already comprehend Civ's elaborate mechanisms.
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I didn't, however, know how to make it happen in this new, console-specific remake. Yes, I knew perfectly well what everything was, and exactly what I was trying to achieve. I know how to play Civ, thank you very much. I may even have hissed, like an angry cat. Get away from me, I gestured with dismissive hand-flaps. I was initially a bit surly when I sat down to play Civ Rev (or Civilizution, as I like to call it).
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