PolyCast Special with Jason "Jason2K" Bergman

[DanQ]

Earlier this month, Apolyton Civilization Site (ACS) Chief/Owner Administrator and PolyCast (PC) regular co-host Daniel "DanQ" Quick alongside fellow staff member and long-term PC fill-in Annalee "Cartimandua" Barney spoke with 2K Games Producer Jason "Jason2K" Bergman about Civilization: Revolution now available worldwide on the Xbox360, PlayStation 3 and DS console platforms. Questions by Quick and from several forum users are asked to learn about the game's development, post-release plans and Bergman himself.

The second "Focus: Civilization: Revolution", it is now netcasting as a PC special. Total runtime is 50m09s. PC is an official podcast of ACS.

Summary of topics:

- 01m32s | General
Pre-and-post-release responsibilities as Lead Producer on Civilization: Revolution, being the publisher internal producer on titles from Firaxis Games, CivRev playtesting, the introduction to the Civ series and now having worked on a title in it.
- 07m30s | Platforms
The lack of a Civilopedia for and barebones manual on the DS version, other console port options and future PlayStation 3 platform support.
- 15m18s | Gameplay
Favourite civilization to play as, responding to criticism of aggressive CivRev Artificial Intelligence (AI), the 2100AD game end limit and explaining the Histograph symbols.
- 21m13s | Content
Possibilities for an Earth and larger seed maps, chances for custom single-player games, the CivRev scenarios and multiple aspects of Downloadable Content (DLC).
- 27m11s | Reflection
Most and least satisfying aspects of CivRev, increasing interest in the PC Civ line-up and lessons learned from CivRev's development.
- 35m08s | GameSpy
How and why the multiplayer service for the PlayStation 3 version was chosen.
- 35m47s | Miscellaneous
Most memorable CivRev games to date, starting in the gaming career and his own venture, lurking on Civ fansite and official forums and feedback on the CivGameoftheWeek.com effort.

 

[Random Fires]

That was not only great for info, but entertaining as well. A good listen for Civ Rev players, on all systems. And now I can finally end that dispute with my wife about where their Civlopedia info comes from.

 

[Double Barrel]

Thanks for posting. They definitely answered the big questions that I had, which means that I won't be playing Civ: Rev much longer than a month or two.

Thanks for putting it out, though. Too bad that Sid has a very hardcore attitude about expanding the potential for this game. That's a bit disappointing. Not all console gamers need their hands held to play his game.

 

[DanQ]

That was not only great for info, but entertaining as well. A good listen for Civ Rev players, on all systems.

Thank you kindly -- the goal with the show itself is to entertain and inform.

And now I can finally end that dispute with my wife about where their Civlopedia info comes from.

Thanks for posting.

Welcome.