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Anno 1701, like the previous Anno games, is a game based mainly on the economics of the settlement created by the player. The more skilled a player is at maintaining a balanced economy the more successful their settlement will be.
There are two main game modes in Anno 1701: continuous play, representing an open-ended session,[1] and ten scenarios with certain tasks, which gradually increase in level of difficulty.[2] The continuous play offers free customization options for the start of the game. Similar to Civilization series, the players can decide on the size of the world in advance, determine the island types and toggle the advanced options such as "Disasters", "Plague", "Pirates", "Fire", and others.[2] All twelve computer controlled opponents have their own personalities, preferences and difficulty levels.[2]
Lodge activities are accessed at the beginning of the game, although only the spy is available for use. All the other lodge activities are researched throughout the game at either a school or a university. Some of the very powerful activities available to players include the deployment of the poisoner (who introduces the plague to an opponent's settlement) or the demagogue (who can rally workers to walk away from their jobs). Players are now subject to Mother Nature's wrath. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions all have the power to destroy settlements. Diseases are also rampant in the 1701 AD world, specifically the plague, which can wipe out hundreds, or even thousands, of people. The plague of rats can ruin tons of goods as well.
On May 9, 2005, Sunflowers officially made the game's title as Anno 1701 and released in late 2006.[8] The game was presented along with ParaWorld on the Sunflowers' booth at E3 2006.[9] In August, the release date was marked as October 26, 2006 for the Germany,[10] while the game went gold in early October.[11]
As Anno 1602 and Anno 1503 had been commercial hits, together totaling 4.5 million units sold worldwide, pre-release sales estimates for Anno 1701 were high. Retailers purchased 450,000 units in Germany in preparation for the game's launch; worldwide pre-orders from stores reached roughly 1 million copies.[20] According to Der Spiegel, the game and its predecessors were aimed at mainstream casual players who "buy a game once a year and spend weeks with it", a goal reflected in the new title's pre-release television advertising. Publisher Sunflowers Interactive noted a high percentage of female players among the Anno series' fanbase, and they were a target demographic for Anno 1701.[21]
In March 2007, Sunflowers released an add-on called Anno 1701: The Sunken Dragon. It includes new features, new missions, and a map editor. The add-on has an Asiatic look, as well as a campaign with 11 missions centered on the new player profiles.[25]
Anno 1701 The Sunken Dragon is a pretty solid city building experience, which adds the extra layer of setting up shipping routes and the lite-ish combat mechanics. Like I said in the beginning, I have no idea how the other Anno titles compare to this one - although you can check out the Anno 1404 video my friends from GamingHD made, link in the description to their video - but I can tell you that this one, Anno 1701 The Sunken Dragon is definitely worth your money, especially if you get it during a GOG sale.
And that wraps it up for my rather long and I hope informative Anno 1701 The Sunken Dragon review. Leave me a comment with some other city-builder titles I should play in the future, or if I should try out some of the other Anno titles. Thank you for watching, be kind subscribe. Seeya next time.
1701 land combat is more faster paced - compared to 1404. I don't say it is bad, i sort like assistance feature. But it gets very tedious without arabian units. In 1701 pikeman ( big military camp ) is early game, grenadiers in med, howitzers and raiders in late.
Finally making its way to North American shores is 1701 A.D. Gold Edition, a repackaging of the original city builder from 2006 and its Sunken Dragon expansion pack, which was originally released in Europe at the end of last year. This add-on was worth the wait, though, given that the new campaign adds swashbuckling fantasy to the nuts-and-bolts Caribbean economics of the game's previous incarnation. A lively story and characters, along with wide-ranging (if not exactly earth-shattering) mission goals, pack real personality into this revamp and make it a colorful trip back to the age of exploration.
Just don't expect a reinvention of the wheel. The original game came with only a sandbox mode of play and one-off missions, so adding a campaign with a scripted story about searching for an ancient artifact called the Eye of the Dragon lends a sense of purpose to all of your city-building endeavors in the Caribbean. Nevertheless, the actual game design isn't all that different from the non-golden 1701 A.D. The basics stick pretty closely to the standard city-building formula. Gameplay revolves around the management of island colonies and the goal of leading them to prosperity. The twin bottom lines are the financial balance sheet and colonist happiness, which are satisfied by erecting houses, churches, sheep farms, schools, and the like, as well as establishing trade routes and diplomatic relations with neighbors. Economics are pretty simple to follow. You identify an island resource such as ore or gold, or set up a structure such as a cattle farm or a tobacco plantation to create a resource, and then construct the businesses that turn these raw materials into usable goods for your citizens. If you do everything just right--and remember to link all of your buildings together with the roads needed to transport goods from one location to another--you'll end up having happy citizens who love their lives in a tropical paradise. Run short on a few key items such as clothing and food, however, and you'll wind up with disgruntled thugs.
Aside from the new campaign, the other additions are fairly modest. Four new computer-player profiles seen in the campaign are also available for use in sandbox games. A handful of new buildings and other items have been tossed in for the beautification of settlements, although they don't result in changes to gameplay. These accoutrements don't even alter the look of the game all that much, unless you're a flower fan really into the new, arching rosebushes, or a bird watcher grooving on attracting parrots and doves to the new aviaries. A meteor strike has been added to the hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural disasters waiting to happen. It looks great and is suitably apocalyptic in scope, but it's so destructive that it pretty much ends your game immediately. As cool as this death-from-above disaster looks when it hits, it's not exactly welcome considering that the original game already had plenty of full-scale cataclysms that tore settlements to shreds. Having to take on yet another instant doomsday is unnecessarily frustrating. Finally, the expansion includes a new editor that lets you custom-craft maps and swap them for play online and off. It's very easy to use, and there is enough of a hardcore 1701 A.D. crowd out there (albeit mostly in Germany, from the looks of things online, so you might need to spreche das Deutsch to really get into it) that this might cause a mod community to grow around the game.
A lot of 1701's charm is due to the attractive visuals. Caribbean islands seem like veritable slices of heaven, with lush green fields, bright sandy beaches, and rolling blue water. It even looks great when you pull the camera so far back that you're looking down on your island kingdom through clouds. Only one technical glitch messed things up. Activating certain graphics options caused a great deal of instability on our test machine, resulting in visual corruption and extreme cursor lag that made the game unplayable. Thankfully, leaving these options turned off doesn't noticeably change the quality of the visuals, and also comes with the side benefit of considerably speeding up map scrolling. The audio isn't as evocative of the tropics; everything except the perfectly cheesy voice samples seems somewhat muted. A more pounding surf would have been much appreciated.
The main drawback of 1701 A.D. Gold Edition is that buyers of the original game are stuck having to repurchase it to get the Sunken Dragon content. Nevertheless, if you liked the original game, you should enjoy the new story-driven campaign.
Anno 1701, also marketed as 1701 A.D., is a video game with both real time strategy and city building elements, developed by Germany-based Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software company. It revolves around building and maintaining an 18th century colony in the "New World". It is part of the Anno series of games, the sequel to Anno 1602 and Anno 1503 and was followed by Anno 1404.
Anno 1701, like the other three Anno games, is a game based mainly on the economics of the settlement created by the player. The more skilled a player is at maintaining a balanced economy the more successful their settlement will be.
Anno 1701 is almost entirely focused on trade and economics, leaving little left over for war tactics. Unfortunately, warfare requires little strategy. However, the graphics are state-of-the art, making it very exciting to watch the intricate details of land or sea battles.The combat has been simplified in some respects compared to the previous Anno game (Anno 1503), which makes it less involved and less difficult for amateur Anno gamers.
Players are now subject to Mother Nature's wrath. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions all have the power to destroy settlements. Diseases are also rampant in the 1701 AD world, specifically the plague, which can wipe out hundreds, or even thousands, of people. The plague of rats can ruin tons of goods as well.
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