But most console strategy games are ham-fisted clunky affairs, almost all of them far better suited to mouse and keyboard PC gaming. This is one of the first console games where city building, resource mining, education and diplomacy are as important to success as combat proficiency. Like the PC games Revolution is a turn-based sim that sees you building up your empire and either dominating your opponents with force or blinding them with science. I get on with strategy games about as well as I do with mobile - ie not very - so was expecting very little from this latest attempt to shoehorn the genre onto a console. Big hitters Alone in the Dark and Battlefield Bad Company (both 360) arrived this weekend but I've been spending most of my gaming time on an unexpected treat - Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (360).
