This game is a vast improvement on the previous games of the series. The game now features full 3d graphics, allowing you to zoom in among your city and see it from the peoples point of view. The game still retains the in-depth economical gameplay, as well as the millitaristic part of the game, allowing you to wage war against other competitors and take over their islands and claim their resources, or peacefully trade with them to keep your colonists happy. The game is fairly simple and easy at the start of the game, however the game will gradually become more difficult as your competitors become stronger and your colonists will demand more from ...  Read the complete review

If your thinking of buying the new Anno 1404 game my advice is dont... buy this game Anno 1701 instead. The new game Anno 1404 does not have multiplayer and has a software piracy protection 3-install limit and no deauthorization tool, its a joke and customers will be voting with their feet. Anno 1701 does have multiplayer and is so much better than other building games such as sim city. It is an emersive and addictive game this, I have seen myself play for 12 hours straight, day after day. It revolves around both real time strategy and city building elements, and around building and maintaining an 18th century colony in the "New World". Like previous Anno ...  Read the complete review

Anno 1701 is a real time strategy game, the third in the series. Story The game is set in the 1800's and you have to build and maintain a colony in the New World., where you have to trade, defend and use diplomacy to survive and prosper in this New World. Game play You start of in the New World and you have to explore and colonise the world, finding the best areas to locate your colony. You have to expand your land whilst trading and defending them against the computer controlled opposition. You have to farm, mine your raw materials and manufacture them to better products that you can sell to make a profit and ...  Read the complete review