1701 A.D.
1701 A.D. is a unique empire building simulation set in the 17th and 18th centuries. In this third episode of the incredibly successful series, players are immersed in the golden age of exploration and trade, where they set out to discover and inhabit new islands - islands that will soon be home to huge cities. Players are tasked with establishing, expanding and maintaining a flourishing medieval metropolis while interacting with other players through trade, diplomacy or military conflicts. 1701 A.D. presents players with a 3D gaming world bursting with life from the vibrant citizens, to the incredibly varied flora and fauna to detailed animated animals. Multiplayer mode allowing up to 4 gamers to play over a LAN or the Internet in Player vs. Player or Co-Op modes. Secret operations, such as sabotage, espionage and demagoguery, build greater interaction between parties Queen feature provides help to players during lower levels and introduces challenges as the game progresses Village center, which is the hub of the settlement, provides players with a real-time gauge of the city's progress through the appearance of the center and the activities of its inhabitants. Optional military elements allowing for unit troop formations and troop feedback as they take part in spectacular battles on land and at sea
1701 A.D. Accessories
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1701 A.D. Reviews
Finding this lesser known series and getting this title for Christmas has been a wonderfully enjoyable experience, although not as much so for the other people in my life who have not seen much of me over the past couple of weeks as a result. Since an experienced player will know this, they can simple go about acquiring all the different types of territories at the beginning of each game. Had the designers thought to add a little bit more variability and some extra resource types (say maybe coffee, tea, porcelain etc) then each new game would be a bit more unpredictable for the experienced player.
My only complaint is that having played the game many times now, it does get a bit repetitive as the needs of your colonists in each new game will be basically the same as the last one. Even with this and a few other minor flaws, the game is highly enjoyable for the more patient gamer, and will provide many hours of fun.
The game is much like a mix of the SimCity titles and Age of Empires III with combat being optional at the lower levels. Expanding and progressing your colony involves producing ever more complicated goods and trade routes for your colonists, and even though the game moves at a slower pace then most real-time-strategy games, you will still find it hard to keep on top of all aspects of game. I found 1701 to be immediately engrossing as the problems that it presented me to solve combined with the lush images and details very difficult to walk away from.
This game requires a fair amount of experimentation to score well. Firstly, the graphics are quite good. I have been playing it nearly daily since I bought it and I feel I have easily gotten more entertainment value from it than the what it cost me. One could be entertained by just watching the graphics without getting involved in the game. The player can control multiple aspects of the game to play on levels of increasing difficulty.
It has troops, ships, and you even can go around attacking other players, but if you do, you will be at war with them. So buy it. You are a trading company, of some kind. I play it for hours on end, and wont stop until I got to get to bed, which would be around 12 or 1am. It is worth ever cent.
And you wont put it down, like me. There is a ton of resources and things to do. If you like games that you get to build a city, and manage almost everything, then you will love this game. And have fun. This is a trading game more then a fighting and empire game.
And it is hard to get back into peace mode with them, I tried it many times.So if you like sim city games, and fighting games, along with trading games, then you will like this game. You have to deal with pirates, and other civilizations; like an Indian trading post, Chinese, and about a ton more. This game is a good game if you like the 1700's.
I mean, If I really had no other responsiblities, I might spend some of my "fun-time" waiting for SimCity 4 to do its thing, but life is too short. The game has good performance. 1. b. I've been playing this game for 6 months (since Jan 2008), logging over 300 hours of game-play (which it tracks for you), and it is still my favorite game.
If you have a high-end graphics card and want to get the most out of it, don't even bother with the other games I mentioned. While graphics are not an essential part of the game-play, they are above and beyond anything you'll find in the others. 4. a. After playing this game, it's pretty hard to go back to SimCity 4 which, even 5 years after its release, and on the newest, highest-end hardware, sits and chugs for seconds-on-end whenever you do anything.
Plus there are the elements of diplomacy, trade, managing your own building supplies, settling, research, and (optionally) war. Once, after my PC went to sleep during a game, I shut down the game and tried to load my city, and for some reason, all the housing was gone. There is one particular free-trader assignment that cannot be fulfilled (he tells you to bring him wood, or something, but when you bring it to him, he doesn't seem to recognize it). I would zoom in sometimes and find it enjoyable to roam the city in detail for a few seconds. If I understand correctly, even the U.K. 5. My favorite is to just keep building on my castle, making it more complex, and to just roam around the city gawking at all the cool graphics, and watching the mistril band and stuff. I also generally try to go for independence from the queen, and to finally annialiate the pirates, who annoy me throughout the game.
Before this game, I played SimCity 4 and CivCity: Rome. Now that I have my GeForce 9800GTX, and I have all the graphics settings set to max, the graphics are so amazing that it's almost too distracting. Any of those things is truly fun. You don't have a same level activity in online forums as you might for other games. After 6 months of game play, the game has never crashed. Competing against the 3 AI players just makes everything more interesting, and you don't feel as anti-social as you might in other city-builders. NO crashing. The game is more fun than all other city-builder games for a few reasons:.
I showed the game to my roommate after upgrading my card, and we both said 'wow' involuntarily. 2. Even in the later stages of the game, the interface is *always* responsive, never stalls, and although the game did slow down during the later stages, on my GeForce 9800GTX, there is really no slow down to speak of ever.
Though I suppose if you listen to any soundtrack for 5 months, it will start to grow on you. I played this for 5 months on a low-end PC with all the graphics options set to low, and always thought the gameplay was fun. You could also try to annihilate the foreign cultures and even annihilate your opponents and become the "last player standing". 2.
Graphics. It has the most interesting, exciting, varied, frenetic game-play (until you've got your city completely grown and your supply chains completely stabilized). And news, about the map editor and other updates for example, takes a lot of persistence to find. Here's the worst that's ever happened:.
There's just a lot more going on. (BTW, I also tried SimCity Societies, but I don't even consider that a game, and so you will hear no more mention of it here). No map-editor. And once you get through it all and have your city, there's actually something to do afterward. version will only have an "world" editor with the same recycled islands. 1.
That being said, without a high-end graphics card, the graphics are nice (especially the water), but the experience is definitely inferior. There is really no comparison to the other games. NO (significant) bugs. I like the music. Small following in the U.S. This is a constant source of disappointment.
Here are my major complaints about Anno 1701 A.D.:. 3.
Very polished, and I would buy it again. It's like a mix of Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom and Age of Empires III, which is exactly what I was looking for.
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