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Summary: 1602 A.D. is very good, well, most the time...
Review: 1602 A.D., or Anno 1602, can be an extremely good game to play. Like every game though, it does have its flaws.
Basically, you get your basic ship at the start of the game. You then have to find an island of your choice and settle upon it. Throughout the game, there are many changes, such as, the upgrade of your houses, and constantly are given new buildings to construct.
But though all of this time, your buildings also have running costs, and your people may not pay the amount of tax you want them to, so you see your money decreasing very fast. Using free traders and trading with your opponents can increase your budget for you to enjoy playing.
Overall, a good game.
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Summary: 1602 A.D. Oooooooooh yeah!!!
Review: 1602 is a game where you rule your own world in the year 1602. It is definitely an excellent strategy game! Sure, it may take a little getting used to, but once you have, it's excellent.I like the variety in the game. The islands can have two different climates and may have gold and ore deposits. You may even have gold or ore deposits in volcanoes, but I would suggest steering clear of those; the volcanoes may be active, and if they are, they are deadly! I also like the variety in buildings and in gameplay. I love the options. Just about everything is entirely up to you. YOU decide what you want to trade. YOU decide whom to trade it to. YOU decide what resources to get. Everything in this game is entirely up to YOU. The detail taken to this game is extraordinary, and I'm not talking about just the graphics. Sure, the graphics are nice, but they aren't the main deal here. You can see your people wander around and go places. You can see people mug each other and take each other's goods. You can see jugglers in the market places and you can watch the hunters kill the deer and take it. Even though this may sound violent and bloody, it's not. Custom scenarios are fun to build. You can decide the shape and size of islands (to a point). You can also decide what resources they have, whether they have mountains or rivers on them, whether they have gold or ore deposits (or none), and what the island can grow and how well the crops will grow. You can also choose to have no opponents, which is nice. Overall, custom scenarios give you a lot of options. A few problems, however, are pirates. They are much too powerful. The game may be hard to understand at first as well. Also, you must be careful with the custom scenarios; you must be sure to have resources on your ship or you won't be able to build!
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Summary: Very nice!
Review: 1602 is a game where you rule your own world in the year 1602. It is definitely an excellent strategy game! Sure, it may take a little getting used to, but once you have, it's excellent. I like the variety in the game. The islands can have two different climates and may have gold and ore deposits. You may even have gold or ore deposits in volcanoes, but I would suggest steering clear of those; the volcanoes may be active, and if they are, they are deadly! I also like the variety in buildings and in gameplay. I love the options. Just about everything is entirely up to you. YOU decide what you want to trade. YOU decide whom to trade it to. YOU decide what resources to get. Everything in this game is entirely up to YOU. The detail taken to this game is extraordinary, and I'm not talking about just the graphics. Sure, the graphics are nice, but they aren't the main deal here. You can see your people wander around and go places. You can see people mug each other and take each other's goods. You can see jugglers in the market places and you can watch the hunters kill the deer and take it. Even though this may sound violent and bloody, it's not. Custom scenarios are fun to build. You can decide the shape and size of islands (to a point). You can also decide what resources they have, whether they have mountains or rivers on them, whether they have gold or ore deposits (or none), and what the island can grow and how well the crops will grow. You can also choose to have no opponents, which is nice. Overall, custom scenarios give you a lot of options. A few problems, however, are pirates. They are much too powerful. The game may be hard to understand at first as well. Also, you must be careful with the custom scenarios; you must be sure to have resources on your ship or you won't be able to build!
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Summary: This game would be a LOT better if it had good documentation
Review: Did I play the same game the other reviewers did? Seriously? Maybe it's just the version I got, but this game is far too flawed to enjoy on any kind of consistent basis. Commands are not detailed in the manual or on the tutorial (for example, how to QUIT). There is no ingame help system, either. There is no explanation for important concepts like question marks over buildings in the tutorial.. the manual just says to look at them, decide what to do, and handle it. Overall, the tutorial was almost useless as a way of learning the game. Each segment of it appeared to last about 2 minutes and provide about 10 text lines of material, most of it encouragement. The manual, incidentally, can only be retrieved from the CD using Explore -- the CD auto-runs any other way you try to access it. It sure has a lot of pretty pictures, but it doesn't tell you how to quit either, or how to get tools, the shortage of which I tended to knock up against on a regular basis. Graphics are blocky, but survivable. There is no explanation of what stars mean in the initial game setup -- I thought it was a rating system, but turns out it's probably a difficulty level. I still have no idea why I couldn't build a warehouse on the scenario I tried -- I had enough stuff, but it just didn't want to do it. I suppose if I were more intuitive or more patient I could probably figure it out, but as it is, it's just too frustrating to play.
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Summary: 1602 ad.play it forever
Review: for me 1602 is an awesome game of strategy.
granted it took awile to learn all the tools available
to the player(ie...automatic trade routes, etc.)but once
learned, it is an awesome strategy game that you can enjoy
for quite some time. i have played all scenarios, in about a year. but yet i can still enjoy the game, and all its nuances
as well as alot of other games out there and better than most. it is really a very good buy, just be patient, and have fun.
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Summary: SimCity with Supply Lines!
Review: Has anyone else ever noticed that Germans seem obsessed with supply lines? This series, "Settlers", "Stronghold", etc. (I think "Stronghold" is British, but there seems to be a strong influence from German games.) You plant the wheat to take to the mill to grind into flour to send to the baker to bake the bread.... So it goes. One link in the chain goes out and, suddenly, you're breadless. (Well, it's not really sudden, but it seems that way.) So, is it fun? Well, as they say, if this is the sort of game you like, you'll find you like this sort of game. It's not really a combat-heavy game. In fact, there is a points in one of the tutorials where you have to run from pirates--you have no way to defend. That results in some annoying micromanagement. I tend to find these games sort of hypnotic. Once you get your supply-lines set up, there's not that much to do but watch your ships go back and forth and your workers tend the fields or what-have-you. That, and figure out where your supply-lines are failing. This game requires a bit more management than "Settlers", which you can read a book whilst playing, but I was never truly inspired to venture much into more combat-based scenarios. It's more "model train" than "combat simulation" in my experience. There are a lot of good things to say about this game. Heck, look around and you'll see a lot of enthusiastic reviews. Whether or not you personally should buy it depends on a number of things: If you've played similar games (like "Settlers") and liked them, you'll probably like this, too. It has a less intimate and cute scale compared to "Settlers". If you're a die-hard combat fiend, you probably will want to give this a miss. But uf you haven't played similar games and you don't require a lot of battles, there's really no way to tell whether or not you're going to like this one without trying it. (Unless you try "Settlers" or the sequel, "1503 AD", of course.) And this is as good a game as any to start with. You might find you really love it. You might, also, find yourself playing and waiting, waiting, waiting for the game to begin.
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Summary: SimCity with Supply Lines!
Review: Has anyone else ever noticed that Germans seem obsessed with supply lines? This series, "Settlers", "Stronghold", etc. (I think "Stronghold" is British, but there seems to be a strong influence from German games.) You plant the wheat to take to the mill to grind into flour to send to the baker to bake the bread.... So it goes. One link in the chain goes out and, suddenly, you're breadless. (Well, it's not really sudden, but it seems that way.) So, is it fun? Well, as they say, if this is the sort of game you like, you'll find you like this sort of game. It's not really a combat-heavy game. In fact, there is a points in one of the tutorials where you have to run from pirates--you have no way to defend. That results in some annoying micromanagement. I tend to find these games sort of hypnotic. Once you get your supply-lines set up, there's not that much to do but watch your ships go back and forth and your workers tend the fields or what-have-you. That, and figure out where your supply-lines are failing. This game requires a bit more management than "Settlers", which you can read a book whilst playing, but I was never truly inspired to venture much into more combat-based scenarios. It's more "model train" than "combat simulation" in my experience. There are a lot of good things to say about this game. Heck, look around and you'll see a lot of enthusiastic reviews. Whether or not you personally should buy it depends on a number of things: If you've played similar games (like "Settlers") and liked them, you'll probably like this, too. It has a less intimate and cute scale compared to "Settlers". If you're a die-hard combat fiend, you probably will want to give this a miss. But uf you haven't played similar games and you don't require a lot of battles, there's really no way to tell whether or not you're going to like this one without trying it. (Unless you try "Settlers" or the sequel, "1503 AD", of course.) And this is as good a game as any to start with. You might find you really love it. You might, also, find yourself playing and waiting, waiting, waiting for the game to begin.
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Summary: I cant get it off my mind!
Review: I first found this game on a pc mag cd demo and it was an instant delight so i raced to K-mart and got a copi. It is just my type of game, Bulding cities and watching them grow into empires, that depends on how well you manage and plan out your first city. The single and most hardest thing about this game that i have found is planning out the layout of your city to the terrain. once you have mastered this you will be fine. This game has trapped my mind. its all i think about where ever i am and its like this with my friends. The 1 thing i like most about this game is the History stepping back in time i love it. I could go on for ever you just have to experience this game for yourself. Its a golden oldie 5 stars please any1 out there wiht the same thoughts on this game i would love to share some secrets of help you out. my email address is raspberryfish@hotmail.com and i have got MSN messenger!
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Summary: sircharles
Review: I own this game and have played many other PC games. 1602 A.D. is a hard game to learn because the manual (in my opinion) is not very clear. It took many hours of experimenting to grasp the controls and functions of the game. I really do enjoy playing 1602 A.D. but I never could get pass the Pirate's attacks. Every time a pirate ship would fire its connons, my computer would shut down and go to my main menu. I believe this was caused by my computer operating on Windows XP. I Highly recomend this game to anyone that likes to build cities, economies, and empires. I am looking forward to the release of 1503 A.D.
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Summary: Just get away from the everyday stress
Review: I think it`s one of the best games. At least I had alot of fun playing it. It makes you forget about anything around you. Not to mention the inportant homework.... I like it because it makes you think strategic, it`s not one of those games full of monsters, wars, weapons, and the best thing is, sometime earlyer it really was like that. So, to say it short, it`s a really cheap trip into the past.
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