I have loved the console version of CivRev since it came out, and hoped that the new iPad version would be equivalent. What a disappointment! It has such a small world that you meet every other Civ within minutes and there is almost none of the subtlety from the console version. I absolutely do not recommend this game.


If a stone falls on an egg: alas for the egg.
If an egg falls on a stone: alas for the egg.

Given the expectations of the audience - particularly, a quicker game - I think CivRev:iOS is about what you should expect, and succeeds at what it tries to do. I find it fun, and play it every so often.

CR:2 wasn't a significant upgrade, though; and it's got some major AI bugs. Particularly, the AI is really dumb in attacks, and doesn't clean up barbarians or go for temples/artifacts much, even when they're adjacent to their territory - I've only seen them get 1 artifact, and I think that was from building a city next to it. I don't think I would recommend buying it until those have been fixed (and given it's so similar to CR1, I'm very disappointed that it didn't have at least as good of an AI - perhaps the same exact AI - as CR(1).)

It does look prettier, and has some new buildings and wonders, but beyond that it's exactly the same game - no significant mechanics difference (not a single one, from what I can tell) and nearly the same UI (and in a few ways, worse - I don't like the new army UI, it's very hard to tell which units are armies now).