If you got your copy of Civilization Revolution from Best Buy, Gamestop, or Target, it might have come with a little slip of paper that has a code written on it. That code was useless. Until now. Go here, type in your code, and download a special bonus pack with new Wonders of the World and artifacts.

Do you get your money's worth? Absolutely! Read the details after the jump.

My brand new Wonders of the World are mostly useless. Considering that the bonus content is free, yeah, I'd say you get what you paid for. The Leaning Tower of Pisa means I get more gold when other nations' caravans arrive in my cities. This happens two or three times, tops, in a typical game. As if I'm going to bother building a Wonder that's going to make me forty pieces of gold or so. Scotland Yard keeps my great people from being kidnapped by spies. Which I've had happen to me exactly once in ten or so games. And SETI means the tech victory, which represents building a space ship, takes fewer turns. Big whoop. If you've got a tech victory, you're going to have no problem holding out for a couple more lousy turns.

These Wonders of the World are nearly as worthless as the artifacts I got in my bonus pack. Camelot, upon discovery, upgrades all horsemen to knights. Better hope I've built some horsemen when I stumble across it! However, if played correctly, Camelot might actually be useful. Unlike the Tower of Babel, an irrelevant artifact that gives me instant contact to all the nations in the world. Since we all begin on the same landmass, and since diplomacy is essentially useless in Civilization Revolution, I consider the Tower of Babel about as effective as the actual Tower of Babel.

I do, however, love one of my new Wonders of the World. The Lighthouse of Alexandria lets galleys sail into deep water. This is a must-have. He who hits the deep water first gets all the artifacts! Just ask Spain, who begins the game with Navigation and therefore the ability to build sea-faring galleons while everyone else is still clinging to the shore in their frail galleys. A Lighthouse of Alexandria is like a shortcut to Spain's national ability. It's a license to hog the world's greatest treasures (assuming they're not Camelot or the Tower of Babel).

It's a shame these Wonders and Artifacts are only present in single player games, because some of them might come in handy in multiplayer situations. And it'll be an even greater shame if 2K Games tries to charge money for these things at some point down the road. Without a better AI and therefore a better single player game, Civilization Revolutions is like a puzzle game that doesn't need any more superfluous pieces.

All in all, I should have gone for the Lincoln poster.