Anno 1800 Console Edition

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  • Summary: Welcome to the 19th century, a time of industrialization, diplomacy, and discovery.

    Rich with technological innovations, conspiracies, and changing allegiances, this era presents the perfect setting for classic Anno gameplay. Anno 1800 provides players ample opportunity to prove their    Welcome to the 19th century, a time of industrialization, diplomacy, and discovery.

    Rich with technological innovations, conspiracies, and changing allegiances, this era presents the perfect setting for classic Anno gameplay. Anno 1800 provides players ample opportunity to prove their skills as a ruler as they create huge metropolises, plan efficient logistic networks, settle an exotic new continent, send out expeditions around the globe, and dominate their opponents by diplomacy, trade, or warfare.    … Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Digitally Downloaded
    Mar 23, 2023
    90
    Anno’s core strength is the cities that it allows you to create. Sometimes it does feel more like a puzzle game than a simulator, as you desperately try to figure out how to give your most demanding residents access to everything they crave. However, the satisfaction of doing it well is almost incomparable for the genre. I am a firm believer that simulation games, at their best, teach you about real-world jobs, processes, and social/cultural/environmental dynamics, whether that be flying a plane, driving a train, running a hotel or building a city. Anno does that, and it presents players with a vision for cities that will, hopefully, be the future of urban planning.
  2. PC Games
    Mar 15, 2023
    90
    All in all, Anno 1800 is one of the best building games on the market, even on the console. Of course, the port in its current form is not very interesting for those switching from the PC. There is simply too much content missing and the change in handling can't be ignored. But as a pure console player, you can look forward to a top-class building game that will excite you for countless hours.
  3. Multiplayer.it
    Mar 21, 2023
    90
    Anno 1800 Console Edition is a quality port of a game that we no longer expected to see on Xbox and PlayStation. Of proven beauty, the Blue Byte game hypnotizes with labyrinthine and all-encompassing mechanics, here re-proposed in their original precision.
  4. God is a Geek
    Mar 15, 2023
    85
    Anno 1800 Console Edition will eat hours if you let it. One minute you're ruminating over where to place a lumberjack's hut, the next you're connecting a huge network of warehouses.
  5. Gaming Nexus
    Apr 6, 2023
    85
    Anno 1800 is one of the most addictive city builders that I’ve played on console, full of gameplay intricacies that create an intoxicating experience. With so many moving parts, it suffers a bit from the typical PC-to-console control issues that plague the genre, but I doubt that will stop you from spending hours building an empire.
  6. PlayStation Universe
    Mar 15, 2023
    85
    Anno 1800 is a fine addition to PS5’s roster of city builders. It takes aspects of several prominent sim titles and mixes them together to make something fresh and exciting. Fittingly, Anno 1800 rules.
  7. Gameblog.fr
    Mar 21, 2023
    70
    ANNO 1800 succeeds in making itself playable and enjoyable on home consoles. It's rather beautiful, and the gameplay with the controller is successful, although it will take a little time to get used to it. On the other hand, if the game is nice to the eye, it has a few technical glitches that will make the less patient players complain. Some of the game's loading times are quite long, textures sometimes have trouble displaying when zooming in and the framerate seems to be slowed down quite often. It's also a shame that the game is not as well supplied as its PC version. It lacks quite a bit of content. And even though you'll already have enough to play for many hours, you can't help but be disappointed. Anyway, it's hard to sulk your pleasure, ANNO 1800 on consoles is successful and will satisfy fans of the genre.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 5 out of 14
  1. Vetroplach81
    Apr 17, 2023
    10
    Great job, I have played Anno 1800 on PC too, but now I enjoy that even more.
  2. PMG-Writer
    Apr 7, 2023
    9
    With the new Console Edition of "Anno 1800", Ubisoft managed to take a huge step towards a perfect implementation of a strategy game on theWith the new Console Edition of "Anno 1800", Ubisoft managed to take a huge step towards a perfect implementation of a strategy game on the home console. The controls and graphics are simply great and make every second fun. The storyline and sound are also a joy to play and make it hard to put the controller down. The different modes are fun and constantly push newcomers and veterans alike to new challenges. Unfortunately, there would be more to use in the insertion of the PS5 controller's features. Nevertheless, you get a really great strategy game for the console with the new Console Edition of "Anno 1800".… Expand
  4. Sairefle
    Mar 18, 2023
    9
    What a great Game i love it. The campain make a lot of fun. 30 fps its ok for a Strategie game
  5. xenomorf
    Mar 26, 2023
    7
    Its one of the best city building/strategy games I have ever played. It checks all boxes. Except, the UI and controls are terrible inIts one of the best city building/strategy games I have ever played. It checks all boxes. Except, the UI and controls are terrible in different ways. Buttons can have different menus mapped to it, yet one has to press the red button each time to exit one menu, then enter one other instead of just switching directly. This would be much of a problem, if the controls were not so damn unresponsive. Often you end up in some submenu, completely not where you want to be. To make matters worse, often, in different menus it keeps scrolling no matter what you do, so you cannot select anything anymore. Even reloading doesn't help. Only a complete restart of the game. Later on in the game it happens every 15 min. This is a bad bug. If it werent for the bad UI and controls, it woukd be a 10… Expand
  6. mbkr
    Jun 18, 2023
    6
    The game is not bad but it is dull and limited without having DLCs which are not planned to be released on the console. Overall it does notThe game is not bad but it is dull and limited without having DLCs which are not planned to be released on the console. Overall it does not deserve its pricey tag. Dividing cosmetics packs into many different packages and pricing them expensively is also a shame. If it was released as a full package including DLCs, it would be really a good game, what a miss. Controls are OK, neither good nor bad.… Expand
  7. radixlecti84
    Jun 19, 2023
    4
    This game is definitely going to be popular with a certain demographic of gamers, but for me the whole thing is far far too slow.

    As you    This game is definitely going to be popular with a certain demographic of gamers, but for me the whole thing is far far too slow.

    As you enter a new technology phase you often have to re-juggle all of your resources, re-balancing as you go isn't a challenge but it's just dreadfully time consuming. I reached a point where my resources were stable and the end was in sight but then I realized I would have to spend countless hours waiting to build up an armada. A half dozen instantly built harbour turrets can annihilate a 15 strong fleet. I figured I could guess the outcome and stop wasting my time. I much preferred the previous titles where resource management wasn't a full time faff.    … Expand
  8. Himmellaeufer
    Jul 14, 2023
    0
    I need a Ubisoft account for the demo. without it the game/demo is not playable. a NOGO!

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