1701 A.D.
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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 th... » full description
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 « short desciption
User Reviews
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Review Date: 2009-01-05
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. 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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
User: Andrew Bowers
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Summary: Extremely fun game
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2008-10-14
Firstly, the graphics are quite good. One could be entertained by just watching the graphics without getting involved in the game.
This game requires a fair amount of experimentation to score well. The player can control multiple aspects of the game to play on levels of increasing difficulty. 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.
User: Clarence Trippy
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Summary: Anno 1701
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 0
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Review Date: 2008-07-18
This game is a good game if you like the 1700's. There is a ton of resources and things to do. This is a trading game more then a fighting and empire game. You are a trading company, of some kind. You have to deal with pirates, and other civilizations; like an Indian trading post, Chinese, and about a ton more. If you like games that you get to build a city, and manage almost everything, then you will love this game! It is worth ever cent! And you wont put it down, like me. 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 has troops, ships, and you even can go around attacking other players, but if you do, you will be at war with them. 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! So buy it! And have fun!!!!
User: Michael Osborn
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Summary: 1701 A.D. is the best!
Helpful Votes: 1
Total Votes: 1
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Review Date: 2008-07-13
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.
Before this game, I played SimCity 4 and CivCity: Rome. (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).
The game is more fun than all other city-builder games for a few reasons:
1. It has the most interesting, exciting, varied, frenetic game-play (until you've got your city completely grown and your supply chains completely stabilized). 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. Plus there are the elements of diplomacy, trade, managing your own building supplies, settling, research, and (optionally) war. There's just a lot more going on. And once you get through it all and have your city, there's actually something to do afterward. 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. You could also try to annihilate the foreign cultures and even annihilate your opponents and become the "last player standing". Any of those things is truly fun.
2. The game has good performance. 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.
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. 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.
3. NO (significant) bugs. NO crashing. After 6 months of game play, the game has never crashed. Here's the worst that's ever happened:
a. 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.
b. 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).
4. Graphics. 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. 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. I would zoom in sometimes and find it enjoyable to roam the city in detail for a few seconds. 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.
I showed the game to my roommate after upgrading my card, and we both said 'wow' involuntarily. There is really no comparison to the other games.
That being said, without a high-end graphics card, the graphics are nice (especially the water), but the experience is definitely inferior.
5. I like the music. Though I suppose if you listen to any soundtrack for 5 months, it will start to grow on you.
Here are my major complaints about Anno 1701 A.D.:
1. No map-editor. If I understand correctly, even the U.K. version will only have an "world" editor with the same recycled islands.
2. Small following in the U.S. This is a constant source of disappointment. You don't have a same level activity in online forums as you might for other games. And news, about the map editor and other updates for example, takes a lot of persistence to find.
User: Donald D. Steffy
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Summary: Very fun and engrossing
Helpful Votes: 2
Total Votes: 2
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Review Date: 2008-06-30
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. Very polished, and I would buy it again.
User: Christopher A. Ogden
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Summary: Fun city-builder
Helpful Votes: 0
Total Votes: 1
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- Multiplayer mode allowing up to 4 gamers to play over a LAN or the Internet
- Unique empire-building simulation set in the 17th and 18th centuries
- Experience the golden age of exploration and trade; discover new islands
- Establish, expand, and maintain a flourishing medieval metropolis
- Interact with other players through trade, diplomacy, or military conflicts
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