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 | 1701 A. D.: Gold Edition |
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Product Description
1701 A.D. Gold Edition pairs the award winning and critically acclaimed empire building/strategy title 1701 A.D. with the globally successful expansion pack 1701 A.D. The Sunken Dragon. Already featuring nearly limitless replay ability, 1701 A.D. Gold Edition expands the 1701 universe even further. The Sunken Dragon add on pack introduces a 30hour, story driven campaign mode and a world editor that lets gamers create and share brand new maps for single player or online play. In addition, 1701 A.D. fans will find new, fully developed computer A.I. profiles, new buildings, additional sub quests and a devastating new natural disaster.Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2607 in Video Games
- Brand: Aspyr
- Model: 618870118215
- Released on: 2008-07-18
- ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
- Platforms: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Format: CD-ROM
- Dimensions: .35 pounds
Features
- Explore a massive, living 3D world and encounter a host of lively characters, each with unique personalities
- New story driven, single player campaign introduces 30 new hours of game play over 11 vast missions
- New world editor gives players unprecedented freedom to create and share maps for online or offline play
- Discover new buildings, decorative elements, quests and an Earth shattering new natural catastrophe
- Practice sabotage, espionage, and demagoguery to give you the advantage over other parties
Customer Reviews
Different but Interesting.
First off, it plays like Age
of Empires, as far as the town building goes. Only it is much more
intricate. As you Progress, and your cities advance, you are required to
gather more and more DIFFERENT types of resources, and refine the
resources in various ways. It becomes a real effort to balance your
people's needs, lest they revolt, but to simply build a massive
harvesting infrastructure will strap your cash due to upkeep costs.
Further, no matter where you begin, you will not have the resources all
nearby for you to simply wall around and build. You will have to search
and build on various islands to properly supply your evolving economy.
Setting up distribution routes, setting their pace properly (to not
overflow your warehouses) is time consuming and one of the focal points
of the game, and it actually is alot more fun than it sounds. Again the
key is balance.
However, Age of Empires type warfare is
definitely not in this game. The focus stays on economics, not war.
While you can build a fleet of warships and an army, the variety is very
limited, and useful only as a cap off in your conquest of a map, and
not the main tool to do so.
This game is alot of fun, but as I
said, if you are looking for a war-type RTS, this game isn't really it.
The learning curve is quite steep, and requires a bit of patience to
realize why your empire is not working when you first play the game.
This game isn't a brain scorcher, but is a much more delicate process
than alot of other RTS games out there, not too challenging, but
engrossing and now prefer this game over my old RTS games like Age of
Mythology, Age of Empires, and is on par with Rise of Nations, which RoN
too, is a great game.
EDIT: It seems something was updated with
windows Vista, and it has indeed broken the game. Vista is not supported
officially and may or likely cause the game to crash. :(
The Best of Its Kind
I am so glad that the Germans
are in love with this type of game, otherwise we in the US would be
totally deprived of some of the most engrossing, rewarding, and FUN
gameplay I have ever experienced. I have not stayed up until 5 am
playing a game in 8 years, and indeed I was wondering if I was even the
type of gamer who could get into a game that much anymore. I was wrong.
For a person like me, who's not interested in the combat aspect of most
strategy games, and who is much more interested in turtling a base to
their exact preference, this game is a boon.
Fun game
I've enjoyed learning this
game. Its not simple that I get bored but not so hard I can't play it to
relax. I like that each island has its own strengths and weaknesses and
items it can't produce which forces you to colonize other islands. I
like the diplomacy and the items you can research in the school. It
reminds me a little Masters of Orion II which I also love, so maybe I'm
biased. I do have one complaint that I can't seem to get the trade
function to work. I'm either misinterpreting the instructions or I'm
just plain wrong, but manually sending my ships around is very annoying.
The graphics are good for a strategy type game, and I enjoy the
different characters of the other computer players. I've played for two
days straight.
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