The Settlers: Rise Of An Empire (PC)

I am right into strategy games just like this, so when I saw The Settlers: Rise of an Empire on sale at my local morrisons, for a whole fiver, I had to buy it. It proclaimed itself to have the best graphics seen in a strategy game to date...perfect to try out on my brand new laptop. ~ About ~ As this game contains fighting, from killing bears and wolves to bandits and other cities, its rated age 12+. Even without the violence, I would have a hard job imagining an under 12 being able to get to grips with this extremely detailed strategy game. ~ Game Play ~ The concept of this game is to build big prosperous cities in medevil ...  Read the complete review

The latest version of The Settlers brings to you a whole host of new and exciting things. The first thing you will notice is that the detail in every aspect of the games visual side has been improved. Of course, you will need a fairly decent graphics card to run the game at its highest spec. You can optimise the game so you can get the most out of what your graphics card will allow. The basic idea is still there making this another brilliant Settlers game. You must build an empire that works together. You have many different buildings to choose from each with their own advantages. Its up to you to organise your space effectively to collect the right ...  Read the complete review

this is an awesome game! it is a manage/ strategy game where you have to build and run cities and do tasks that are asked of you like deliver food and fight etc. it is really good and has excellent graphics! i recently bought the newest ceasar which is also a strategy game but is not very compatible with vista so my partner bought this instead and i think its better than ceasar actually! it is rated 12 plus but i think it is just as there is a little bit of fighting, nothing major really. it is really easy to install and really easy to get the hang of as it has a good tutorial as the first levels which explains what to do and how to do it. the first few levels are ...  Read the complete review