Anno 1404 Gold Edition

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  • Publisher: Ubisoft
  • Release Date: Jun 25, 2020
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  1. ShodanSpectre
    Feb 17, 2021
    5
    The city-building aspect is okay at first, but once you wanna get to the military stuff the game starts to fall apart:
    First, building any    The city-building aspect is okay at first, but once you wanna get to the military stuff the game starts to fall apart:
    First, building any military (small warship or small army) - requires Patricians (lvl-3 people in your town). That, in turn, requires spices for Townsmen to upgrade to Patricians. Spices - are only available from the Orient (southern, arab-looking countries). So, you can't build ANY warships, or even a militia-style army, without interacting with an Orient civilization? ...okay

    But once that's acquired, things get uglier: while the naval combat is a-okay, if overly simplistic - the land "combat" is even worse. Instead of launching troops from a ship onto an island, first a "castle" must be insta-built on the shore. This happens instantly... like wtf?

    There's little to no "manual" unit control, you can control placing buildings and military camps, and the armies attack from there on their own, you can't control your armies! The military camps and other objects are built instantly, at least. But overall the land combat/sieges looks more like a cockroach infestation of your town, with no control of units whatsoever, rather than proper combat.

    The campaign doesn't even introduce the player to any combat after a couple hours, so I think combat in this game is very much an afterthought. I get it's an empire building game first, but with the super arcadey naval combat and borderline dysfunctional land combat I'll give it only a 5/10.

    I'm now trying Anno 1800 which is MUCH more beautiful, and seems to have somewhat tactical naval combat. Anno 1800 has NO land combat whatsoever - and I'd say that's better than the cockroach-infestation of combat mechanics Anno 1404 has!    … Full Review »
  2. yazazuyo
    Aug 10, 2023
    8
    Amazing graphics but building aspect gets more grindy the longer you play while in other Anno games you discover new things constantly that'sAmazing graphics but building aspect gets more grindy the longer you play while in other Anno games you discover new things constantly that's what missing here in some parts of the game.… Full Review »
  3. Nick_Rostov
    Apr 6, 2023
    7
    Хорошая стратегия, но без обучения освоить трудно.
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