The Settlers VI Rise of an Empire Gold Edition
The Settlers VI Rise of an Empire Gold Edition
The Settlers VI: Rise of an Empire Gold Edition includes the Eastern Realm expansion pack that provides new landscapes, characters, and challenges as you creates your own empire of bustling cities in a captivating medieval world. After the crushing of the Red Prince, the empire of Basa is being rebuilt, but the important trade route to the distant Hidun, to the empire of the great mogul Praphat is blocked and neither goods nor news are getting through. Time has come for your knights to help the Mogul to restore the empire to splendor and glory and to fill the deserted provinces again with life.
8-map campaign, Single and Multiplayer Maps A new climatic zone - Based on an Indian environment, you will experience a new exciting flora & fauna, new buildings and characters A new hero - The knights are joined by the daughter of the mogul of Hidun - the Princess Saraya Trade-Post - the new trade-post gives you the opportunity to install an automatic monthly exchange of goods in a self-specified way Wells - Along with the marketplace-well, you can build your own wells to save more water during rainy seasons to save enough for dry periods Geologist - The new geologist will be able refill all stone and iron quarries as well as springs Rainy Season - As certain recourses will not be available and paths will not be passable, the rainy season is a new challenge Embellishment Objects - A large number of beautiful embellishment objects will be available to personalize & decorate your city
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Fun but this game can be improved
I like building games like this. I’m not the first shooter type and have played all the Settlers games. Wish the AI were a little better, it’s realitively easy to defeat foes and the game is really too long to play someone else online, it would be one long race, a real grind. That’s why I wish they’d improve the AI, the farming system, say wheat and potatoes, why not use wood for Bow making? what about boats? And I’d like to see other eras perhaps earlier Roman, Greek and Mid-Eastern times. But this game is a lot of fun and will buy the next one that comes out if I have any money at that time.
5 Stars Game For Dummies, like Me!
The Settlers VI: Rise of an Empire Gold Edition
What I’m not: I’m not a teenager who can neglect his homework, play for hours every day, and talk to his friends about how to kill the bad guy.
What I’m not: I’m not a war general who knows to put the archers on high ground and flank the cavalry with spearmen.
What I’m not: I’m not someone who works for the department of zoning and planning.
What I am: Just someone who likes to play a game and win more than lose.
What this game is not: This is not a fast action paced game where you tell your wife you’re too busy upgrading units, don’t answer the phone because you’re bein attacked by aliens, or hold in that bladder tight because any minute now and you lose.
What this game is: It’s a slow paced game. You can kick back, sip coffee, smoke a cig, and even walk away to attend to real life concerns and still come back with everything intact.
What this game is not: This is not a high dedication game. You don’t have to dedicate eight hours a day, seven days a week to upgrade your cooking skill.
What this game is: A couple of hours of fun. The time stamp has given me an average of two hours of game play per completed campaign map.
What this game is not: This is not a game designed for the strategic expert or the officer of city commissions. You don’t have to know anything about planning a city or war strategies to have fun and win the scenarios.
What this game is: A game for dummies. It literaly tells you, “Click on the flashing button. Now place the cursor over the blue signal on the screen. There! You just created a building, now watch.” And, “Click on the catapult, now click on the flashing icon to activate it. Now click on the glowing target.” I need someone to hold my hand and walk me through some of these games. I’ve played other games with hundreds of buildings and all they do is, “What would you like to build first?” I don’t know, i’m not a zoning commissioner.
In summary, this is a slow paced, low action, high in telling you what to do and when to do it game. You can walk away and come back if needed. You can spend a few hours and have fun. You can take your time to think about what to do next. You can win every scenario. This is the game for me. I hope they make more like these.
4 Stars vista still makes me mad
this is a great game. once again vista gets in the way of a good experience. the game will crash every so often. (xp users: i haven’t heard a problem from and i know a lot that play this game on it) the game play is nice the content is great. i just wish they would fix vista to stop being so crappy or i’m switching to mac.
GREAT GAME!!!!!!
3 Stars A small disappointment
I was very excited about this next installment in the Settlers series. The last one being very replayable and quite imaginitive. I’m somewhat disappointed in this one. It seems they took a step back instead of forward. The missions are quite repetative, the characters one dimensional, the city building limited and boring and the story lines themselves are merely to get you from point point A to Point B. The graphics are, as always, quite good and the life movement entertaining but there’s very little variation in any of the objectives so these, in the long run, lose their novelty. I guess it was too much to expect that they would keep going forward. This game should have been released before the last series. That would have made far more sense to me.
My over all impression…not a bad game but not as good as I would have liked or assumed. You’ll probably not pick this one up again once you finish playing through it. Also please make sure you check your graphic capability before purchasing.
4 Stars Solid choice for an historic city building game
This is a solid choice if you enjoy city-builder games.
You are mostly gathering resources, growing your settlement, expanding your territory, and fulfilling various scenario tasks, all within a usually very creative map that includes valleys, river crossing, mountain passes, and other fun strategic stuff. Maybe half of the scenarios end with you destroying another faction, but this is definitely not a military-focused game.
The good:
-Very solid game engine: never a bug or crash after 5 months of playing on Windows Vista 64-bit with a GeForce 9800GTX and graphics settings maxed-out
-Immersive period graphics and another solid ambient period music score by Dynamedion (Best German Soundtrack 2007)
-Creative maps/scenarios that are generally not too difficult and typically take around 3 hours each
-Vegetarian rating allows you to replay old maps using a different strategy
-Active user community creating custom maps for you
Cons:
-Somewhat restrictive camera angle
-Less complex than other similar games (Anno 1701), although what it lacks in complexity in the game engine, I’d say it makes up for in the variation and creativity of the maps/scenarios.
