1701

Yes, I' am writing on a PC Game, it is not that there is not anything new out there it is just that when I scrolled through my posts that I noticed that many of them were concerned with not,...overly happy issues. So I decided to pick a game which does not a have violent focus but an economic focus.
1701 A.D. or Anno 1701 is a the third installment in a very successful German games series, which began with Anno 1602 or 1602 A.D. and was continued with 1503 which then was succeeded by 1701. Now 1701 combines the best out of its predecessors plus a new a heavily overhauled AI and Graphic presentation. Further the game allows the Player finally to play in a fully supported online Game and all parties can be traded with directly even the Free Trade can be visited. The AI is well designed and so is the world in which the game is played, the Graphic overhaul, which had been necessary made 1701 one of the leading games in Game-Design. In Germany this game was released at the end of October under the name of Anno 1701 while in North America the title is 1701 A.D. it essentially means the same-thing but sunflower (The Developer) has made sure that the Game would be released with a local translation of the game-title namely the 'Anno' which stands for Anno Domini which is the same A.D. stands for.
1701 Focuses around the Development of your own colony you can get support from the queen but eventually you are supposed to stand on your own economic feed, the main battle force can be derived from the ships a player has available, since everyone is on an island and dependent on some imports through out the game, if from another player or your own sub-colony does not matter. If a developed island is blockaded this will have serious effects on the players ability to operate. This game due to the integration of economics and politics is not a war-game but rather a game about economy, there is the possibility of having a military and a fleet yet both require infrastructure and money, to be available, further war is very expensive in 1701 which makes it only attractive if resources a badly needed and can not be traded. In the end this game offers a addicting solution which does not focus on getting some money from a resources and then killing the opponent, this game leaves it to the player to operate as they wish. This game can be played indefinitely since there is no real story-mode but rather it focuses around long-games between human players or human player and AI. I can only highly recommend the game...n_n.

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