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List Price : $29.99 Price : $1.89
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The Settlers: Rise of an Empire PC
- Diplomacy is key - Build up your small town, maintain trade relations, and make claims on land and villages
- Use wise planning to for mining operations, resource gathering & food production - plus the occupations of the various settlers
- Plan a road system for transporting goods effectively - and to help your people prosper
- Upgrade buildings, hire entertainer and organize fairs - all to improve the economy & match up male & female settlers
- Build walls to keep out enemies, and defend against invasion with military actions
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire Reviews
| 46 of 50 people found the following review helpful:  Drastic improvements over the previous, back to the settlers we know, By = Fun: Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: The Settlers: Rise of an Empire (DVD-ROM) If you've played Settlers 1 or Settlers 2, this would be very familiar for you. 1. Focused on building your econ & city planning. 2. Military is very small part, can only build swordsmen and archers. + some siege. 3. Graphics - it's good enough for game like this. 4. Music - very good actually, many different songs. 5. Multiple Generals for you to choose from, each with their own passive ability and special power. Actually makes a significant impact on the gameplay. This really increases the reply value. 6. Length - Haven't finish or gone very far yet. About mid game. Games like this there is plenty of replay value in it even after you finish the campaign. Some issues: 1. Slow - there is no time adjusting or speed increase, so some parts does feel a bit slow. Nice to have a EGM or some magazine handy while playing. 2. Walling - Very difficult to wall correctly with the 3D terrain... Read more 14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:  A Must have if you love all things Medieval, By Thayland (Newalla, OK USA) - See all my reviews = Fun: This review is from: The Settlers: Rise of an Empire (DVD-ROM) I have to say that to me this is a very similar game to Stronghold 2. I patched the game and then it auto-patched when I restarted it before I started playing out of the box. After hours of play, I've had one hard lock-up where I had to reboot. I save often so it didnt impact me. It seems to be much more stable now that the patches are out compared to other reviews here. I'm playing with the default video options which to me are just fine. The graphic artwork is absolutely fantastic. The water looks like realy fluid water and the animations is high quality. This is a "make-your-people-happy" game. Dont get this game expecting to have the depth of military combat that Stronghold 2 does, but I'm quite happy I purchased it since I love the Medieval time period. This is another way to observe the mechanics of medieval society. The only real combat strategy for your swordsmen and archers and siege engines (that's all you get), is to mass on the enemy... Read more 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:  Strong city-building sim, but lacks anything resembling a challenge., By Z. A. Recht (West Virginia) - See all my reviews = Fun: This review is from: The Settlers: Rise of an Empire (DVD-ROM) Alright. Let's see here. This was hyped to me as "Like Stronghold 2, except with more focus on city life than combat." That was a pretty fair comparison. In Settlers, your main object of any mission is to build up a city infrastructure and promote your knight to new ranks in order to gain access to better buildings. It's a beautiful game to play. When you really get a city rolling, you'll be entertained merely by zooming in and watching your settlers go about their business. The cities themselves feel alive and are nicely detailed. You really will feel as if you're lording over a medieval settlement. Resources are scattered around the maps, which are divided into regions. You can't build in a region unless you've claimed it by setting up an outpost. Through this system you can slowly expand the territory you control and gain new trade partners or plots of land. In some maps expansion is a necessity, just to gain the space you need... Read more |
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