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settlers.. decent game but quirky

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After wanting this game for ages, I finally found it used at a good price through amazon.com and bought it after playing the demo. The game itself is a very cool RTS, with nice graphics and lots of little goodies. The strategy plays a large role, especially considering changing seasons, where rivers freeze in the winter, allowing access to previously untouchable parts of nice sized maps. The heroes are great, each with different abilities and the military system is good, this is a great game for defensive turtles. Unfortunately, the process of building up a large colony and military is monotonous, the same steps and research are required map after map and the upgrades come slowly. This alone is the reason my copy has sat untouched for a couple of weeks, but I'm sure many people would love an RTS where rushing in the beginning isnt such a big issue, and economy is.

A terrible butchery of the Settlers francise.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: February 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Whoever is responsible for butchering the Settlers series into this title should be fired. I suspect UBI is to blame for wanting to make the game more "Mainstream". In the process, they destroyed everything that Settlers was supposed to be about and what we are left with is a pretty lousy game.

Its truely sad what has happened to this series, this title is best avoided.

Not a real Settler game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have had all other versions and they have been much more fun to play> this version does not have free maps and the preset maps are not as good as the old ones, also not enough variety.
It was disappointing and I just bought the new Settler Rise of an Empire and I hope it get's better again!

Review by Comparison.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's like 1503 AD meets Dungeon Siege. Possibly 1703 AD, but I haven't played it yet. & a little bit of Heroes of Might & Magic 4 & Age of Empires tossed in. It's fun to watch the trees, tall grasses, cattails, & wheat dance in the wind. The seaweed dances in the water, but there are no fish, even though there are animals all over the land, but you can't hunt them for food. The terrain would look more realistic if the land near the water banks looked wet. The campaign is quite fun & you may find youself spending more than 8 hours a day or night playing it. I love the camera in this game; you can zoom in on the buildings & watch the workers & zoom out for battle. In single player games, you can do an ammusing thing; hire tons & tons of surfs to suck the enemy's resources dry.

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