
The Romans, Mayans & Vikings are the three industrious little races you'll be settling with. The seamless zoom function allows you 2 take a close-up peek as your settlers go about their daily business, or 2 zoom out 4 a bird's eye view of how your very own empire is coming along.
Put your settling skills 2 the test in single-player missions, with friends & colleagues in a local area network (LAN) & with gamer from all over the world via BLUE BYTE GAME CHANNEL! For beginners, getting started is a piece of cake, thanks 2 the extensive tutorial missions.
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One draw back is there are no roads with drop off points (which can be a plus 2 others). This is a big deal 2 me... Because I loved Setters 2. The AI is not very good 4 the delivering of goods. You will find yourself waiting a long time on them.
The game can skip ahead by 1 min with the press of F12. Press it 2 much & you will find yourself in battle.
Building in the game is also slow. It's not bad... Until you turn the AI 2 the max. You will find yourself not ready when the flood of 50+ level 2 or so units come knocking.
This leads 2 your army. If you don't have priests in your army... You are at a disadvantage. Also, stock piling weapons is a must. It takes a long time 2 mass produce an army large enough 2 take out the opposition. Even when you do have a stock pile of weapons & gold.
The animations in the game are (in my opinion) not as good as Settlers 2. However the graphics look great.
One of the great things about the Gold edition... Is that you get so much 4 your money. You have lots of pre-made missions 4 you & a new race. Along with a map editor 4 your creative side.
This game does work 4 Windows XP. I have service pack 2 installed & I also have a P4 with HT... Which from what I read on the Setters forum, makes the game unplayable. I have not patched the game either.
Despite all of these negatives. It really can't take away from this game. I had allot of fun & wasted allot of time. If you don't want 2 spend 2-3 hours per mission. Then stay away.