While it's certainly not the cutting edge of gaming technology, it is a first peek of what the category will look like in the years to come.ġ602 AD is, at its core, a pretty basic colony building and trading simulation. Many of the big advancements in strategy gaming that have made straight military conquest games so entertaining (real-time movement, 3D graphics, faster processor speeds) have never been applied to the trading titles I loved as a kid. Most of the new strategy/sim titles that have hit the shelf in the past couple of years are far more oriented towards world building and conquest through military action than there are towards discovery and conquest through economic action. Sadly, in the last few years, there haven't been all that many titles that fall into this quirky category. It doesn't matter where or when they send me, as long as I'm buying goods or building houses, they've got my attention. Over the past two decades, I've spent hours buying low and selling high in historical sims like Imperialism, Colonization, Machiavelli and High Seas Trader, in the present with Capitalization, Railroad Tycoon and Transport Tycoon, and in the future with titles like Starflight, Psi 5 Trading Company, and, of course, M.U.L.E. I'm a sucker for colony building/trading games. Replay Value: The games will enthrall you for weeks. Sound: Stirring, especially when fighting. If you've got the patience to play Anno 1602 (it can take weeks for the game to reveal all of its subtle tricks), you will be rewarded with a worthwhile and satisfying game. There is a zoom utility to make things easier to examine in detail. Gameplay is made easier by the use of icons which explain themselves when the mouse is passed over them and the interface makes use of eye-pleasing graphics, especially when run at resolutions of 800圆00 or higher. You can either adopt a suave, diplomatic method of trading with them or be more aggressive and go for a warfare approach to doing business. This is where the fun really begins, because the other races around you are equally industrious, bloodthirsty, and intent on building up their own trade empires. After finding a suitable island, building the docks and warehouses, and creating a town for your population and their animals, you have to trade with the goods that your (hopefully) contented workforce produces. The game plays like a slow-paced, peaceful strategy game, yet could be considered a trading and war simulation. As the title suggests, this game is set in the early seventeenth century, at a time when there were plenty of empty islands available to colonize. The action happens continually around you and every move or command you make takes place immediately, not further down the timeline. The third part of the unique combination of different genres creates a real-time building game and is also set in 16th and 17th century, the era of discoveries and maritime trade.Announcing itself as the "Creation of a New World," Anno 1602 is a real-time strategy game in the SimCity 2000 or Settlers II style.
Click “Play” to start the game! Have fun!ĪNNO 1701 is the most elaborate and expensive game production in the German speaking region and the sequel to the most successful, multi-million selling game series of all times. After installation of the game, “exit” the GOG installer.ĥ.
Then use this CrossTie… to install the game into Crossover, or in Porting Kit search the game on the library –> server tab and click install.Ĥ. Then download the GOG.com setup files from Anno 1701 from GOG.ģ. Get Porting Kit or Crossover if you don’t have it yet.Ģ.
You automatically get when creating an account 14 free GOG games (+ some dlc’s) added to your account so you have nothing to loose, only to receive! Make sure the setup file is downloaded into your download folder before running the Crosstie, so that Crossover recognizes the file and launches the setup automatically.ġ. Click on the links mentioned here, create an account using the signup in the top bar on the GOG.com website and buy the game. I recommend to buy the GOG.com version which is DRM free and works straight away out of the box. Other ported “Anno series” games on the site are: Anno 1602, Anno 1503, Anno 1404 and Anno 2070. So if you haven’t Crossover yet, then sign up here and buy the program or if you want to test it first, for the 14 days trial. Or use the Porting Kit alternative.
This page contains information + tools how to port Anno 1701 so you can play it on your Mac just like a normal application.
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