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Summary: I love it!
Review: I am in love with this game!
As a woman I do not play very much. That's how it used to be anyway...
Times change - ever since I started playing 1503 A.D. it is hard to concentrate on anything else.Here's why:
I started to explore the world of 1503 A.D. to find the perfect island to settle and start building my empire.
Once I found it and explored it to find out about the ressources I started to set my first little buildings. Next thing you know is that all these tiny people come out of their cabins and start working - sooo cute!
After a while - and after many more buildings - my little village started to grow.
If I keep my people happy my village will soon turn into nice little city with big houses, university ... If you are looking for something to relax and have fun at the same time - this is the perfect entertainment! Very worth buying!
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Summary: This game is sooooo boring!!!!!
Review: I bought this game used for really cheap so I'm not mad about the money I wasted but I am ticked about the time I spent trying to figure this stupid game out. First, the tutorial taught me just about nothing. I had to read the manual over and over again. My sheep NEVER had enough grazing land even though everything was cleared. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to make or buy tobacco. I only found 2 cultures and I couldn't even sign a treaty with one of them. If I managed not to lose my scout, the only thing I ever found was more mineral deposits that did me no good because I couldn't build on any other islands but my own. All I did was watch my money go down and down and down. I wish they would of made this game a little more user friendly. It might have been enjoyable then.
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Summary: Great Game!!
Review: I dont have the game yet but i tried the demo and the game is awsome i cant wait for it to come out! You can build your own kingdom and wage war on everyone else. Its based a long time ago and its really fun!
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Summary: 1503 AD -limited
Review: I found it to be more complex than 1602 but better graphically. It does have several problems. All of the functions I had read that were supposed to be usable; were not. I had done a lot of research on it and supposedly you could board ships, capture enemy territory by building your warehouse over the almost destroyed one and others were nothing but hype. You find out in a text file on the CD AFTER you buy the product that not everything works. I think it was done on purpose so people would buy the expansion where it does work; European version. There is no official editor, like in 1602, but after a crash course in german I did find an unofficial one. The game is funner to play than 1602 but not worth the full msrp; in my opinion. It is worth buying at the low prices now for it. One last thing, support is very limited for this game, another lacking area. Have fun.
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Summary: It's good, but........
Review: I have not yet played the full version game, but i played the demo and i have to say the game is a bit confusing! It's not as organized as there last game 1602 ad! I was expecting a lot of neat graphics, and yea the art work is good, but where in the heck is the graphics! Moving objects like ships are moving pictures! Animations! I absolutely love the feel and theme of 1503 and 1602, but I think Empire Earth is a better game! ... Over all its an ok game!
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Summary: WHOEVER THOUGHT UP THIS GAME SHOULD WIN A MEDAL!
Review: I have only had the privelidge of playing the demo, and this game [is real fun]! The Graphics are superb, the music is
perfect for playing into the early mornings (which you will probably do), and the game design is a 10/10. I would reccomend this game to anyone who enjoyed the SimCity saga, and anyone who also likes conquering their neighbors, but not with large-scale battles. It is, without a dobt, one of the best empire-building RTS' that has ever been made.
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Summary: will this title ever ship??
Review: so ship already, then we'll know, won't we
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Summary: Delayed 3 times over 3 years. Now out and ADDICTING!
Review: The first few nights I spent 10 hours solid playing. This is not good for school. Incrediblly addicting. I like economic simulations that don't focus on war. This is a one of a kind game that gives you a choice to war or not because the AI follows your actions. It has a new twist on the economic scheme in that it is a less comunistic form of government. The funds you acquire are from the sale of items at the market square (Capitalistic). The game takes long in progressing from level to level moving from pioneer, setteler, citizen, merchant, aristocrat. The education system is expanded from the last game of the series (1602) to include research for warfare units as well as larger ships, wells, larger textile manufacturers etc...
You will like this if you like CaesarIII, 1602ad, Tropico.
But you will not like it if you like to just war and avoid the whole economic thing as in: Starcraft, AOE, C&C Generals.
Allthough if you like both CaesarIII and AOE then you'll love 1503a.d.
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Summary: Changed my mind: I LOVE IT
Review: The initial version of this software AD 1602 was fun to play, a kind of post-Renaissance Sim City. After a long wait, the 1503 version was released. At first I hated 1503, thinking it was overly complicated. Well, switched to ENGLISH version (yuh! not smart, I was playing a version in German, the original language of this game) and I broke down and played the tutorials. Wow! There's a lot here. Not only are the graphics stunning, but the economic play is complex and interesting to the end. The formula to success (many aristocrats) is not as it was in 1602. In this case, trade balance is all; if you dare an agressive and too early expansion, your economy can take an irreversible downward spiral, and the cathedral starts softly playing the Miserere from Mozart's Requiem (haha, an anachronism but damn funny, you guys!) Lots to love here, a great computer game, indeed.
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Summary: For kindergarden kids
Review: This is a game for 5 years old. A real economy does not function like that at all! It needs a government, rules, accounts and so on. It is impossible to really control anything in this game where really annoying things happen (why prevent those stupid potatos to reach this stupid tavern for the only reason that a piece of mud road is missing!). This is not the sort of thing that makes a game funny!
I am still looking for a strategy game where invading your neighbour is not the only way to win and where the economy functions on a truly realistic basis. This is not the one (despite fun graphics)!
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