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Not that great

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Build through power, build through peace and build through pure frustration. This game is so complicated, that its a drag to play. First of all I'll start by saying that the graphics look spectaculaire. Secound of all it takes for ever to do any thing in the game. You'll try to explore, manage a growing empire and build a thriving colony over many many days of playing. You'll constantly run into money problems and to this day I still can't figure out how to set traid routs. Dureing this game you will rarely get attacked on land and your traid boats will conatantly get harrsed by pirates and your enemys. This game looked good on the rack in the store, but when you start to play it you'll relize that the game isnt that great. If you want a good stratigy game, get strongholed or age of empires.

For kindergarden kids

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 15
Date: November 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a game for 5 years old. A real economy does not function like that at all! It needs a government, rules, accounts and so on. It is impossible to really control anything in this game where really annoying things happen (why prevent those stupid potatos to reach this stupid tavern for the only reason that a piece of mud road is missing!). This is not the sort of thing that makes a game funny!
I am still looking for a strategy game where invading your neighbour is not the only way to win and where the economy functions on a truly realistic basis. This is not the one (despite fun graphics)!

will this title ever ship??

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 42
Date: March 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

so ship already, then we'll know, won't we

This game is sooooo boring!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 17
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game used for really cheap so I'm not mad about the money I wasted but I am ticked about the time I spent trying to figure this stupid game out. First, the tutorial taught me just about nothing. I had to read the manual over and over again. My sheep NEVER had enough grazing land even though everything was cleared. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to make or buy tobacco. I only found 2 cultures and I couldn't even sign a treaty with one of them. If I managed not to lose my scout, the only thing I ever found was more mineral deposits that did me no good because I couldn't build on any other islands but my own. All I did was watch my money go down and down and down. I wish they would of made this game a little more user friendly. It might have been enjoyable then.

Not bad, just nothing new

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Games involving the colonization of the American Colonies are not a new idea, but I can at leat respect a company with the guts to try.

Two main things

The graphics are great, but there is really no SUBSTANCE to the great graphics.

The price is outragious for what you end up getting although this game is fun, it is not worth 42 bucks.

You have too options here
1. Wait for the price to go down on a pricey but rather expensive game

2. Break out the old computer with Win 95 version 4 and play some "COLONIZATION"(You old Sid Myer fans will know what I mean).

Great Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 23
Date: March 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I dont have the game yet but i tried the demo and the game is awsome i cant wait for it to come out! You can build your own kingdom and wage war on everyone else. Its based a long time ago and its really fun!

It's good, but........

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have not yet played the full version game, but i played the demo and i have to say the game is a bit confusing! It's not as organized as there last game 1602 ad! I was expecting a lot of neat graphics, and yea the art work is good, but where in the heck is the graphics! Moving objects like ships are moving pictures! Animations! I absolutely love the feel and theme of 1503 and 1602, but I think Empire Earth is a better game! ... Over all its an ok game!

Arg!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well this is a perfect example of what happens to a good game idea that gets developed in a vacuum. While the inherent idea behind the game is sound, the interface is astoundingly annoying.

The game itself is reminiscient of Knights & Merchants but without the complexity. Your buildings will instantly spawn if you have the building materials. Don't worry about building a transportation infrastructure within your colony because people/carts can easily move through each other. Oh and if you want to clear some land then it's much faster just to build a road through it and then demolish it since instant road building is a lot faster than having a woodcutting actually cut down the trees.

Well enough logical error with the game. You'll find the interface to be so-so(sans the lack of a pause)... I'll still play the game but it's painful to think of the wasted potential it could have easily attained.

Don't say I didn't warn ya...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: August 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off let me just say I am an avid gamer, I love all kinds of games as long as it captures my interest and I am easily captivated. This game installed into my computer and got shelved within a week of playing it. This game had the potential of being something great but lacked heavily in the graphics and interface department, someone over at EA should get there butts chewed for this. At first glance it's rather deceiving unless you have a place to play it first before you buy it, this game will rob you of your money, I'm glad it went down to 20 bucks because like the idiot that I am, I brought it when it first came out. Even then it's not worth spending 20 bucks for it. Let me start by saying how the game actually felt like when I first played it, I had a confusing time with the interface, now I have played strategy games and SIMS like Age of Mythology and Casino Empire and for love of me I could not figure out what to do with the controls. I had to sit there and read the manual word by word in order to understand it. After several hours with the manual I began to see the potential this game could be but spending so much time on the manual I was hoping to see awesome graphics display or something but all I got were a few cut scenes that an an old game like Starcrafts cut scene could've easily put this game to shame. I don't understand why the developers would make a game so confusing for the average person and not compliment it with nice graphics so they could at least keep their interest at bay until they figured out how to play the damn game. It's obvious this game isn't intended for the norm. I believe rocket scientist or brain surgeons would love this game because it'a a challenge just to figure it out. In a word "stinks"! And to charge 30-40 dollars for this game when it came out is absurd. ..., for every one good game EA puts out there, there are 10 that's sure to suck. Last time I'm buying from them. Consumers you have been warned.

I Prefer 1602 A.D.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Although the game has better graphics, 1602 A.D. was more fun. What I loved about 1602 A.D. was a map creator. I was very dissapointed to see it was not in 1503 A.D. The game looked so good unfortunately it wasn't. It's is also way to hard. I suggest you buy 1602 A.D.

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