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| From: Ubisoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
Buy New: £9.99
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 497
Platform: Windows Xp
Genre: world-builder-strategy-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3307210258427
ASIN: B000S8JO42
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Best since number 2 October 28, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I collect this series of games and i have to say this has been the best by far since settler 2 (still the best in my opinion). The graphics and music in this game are really good but unless you download the 1.1 patch before you play you will probably have problems with these. The single player missions are simple for the first 10 or so and then get challanging as you have to manage limited space and high demands for goods (wood is so annoying now you dont get forresters!. This one is less battle orientated than its collegues but to be honest I like that and you can still have a good fight should you desire. I think the worst thing Ive found about this one is the lack of mining operations you have to establish its just iron now.
Overall, my best game of the year play this in between Bioshock!
The Best Building Game... Ever! October 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This Game is one of the best Pc Games I have ever played. It is just the right level of difficulty. In this game you have to build up an empire wihile facing problems through nissions. Yhis game never gets boring.
I am a Sims 2 fan and I was looking to play sonething a little different and I found this.. So ireckon if you love Sims, You'll love this!
You'll probably love it anyway, actually!! :-)
Stunning November 20, 2008
I love this game. The grahics are stunning and gameplay is smooth.
The only problem I have is that is seems to stop playing after a while on my computer. Not sure whether special updates or patches are needed.
 Looks great and strangely compelling to play, but... January 3, 2008
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
Plus points:
1. one of the best Intro's to a game I've seen - the detail and rendering are amazing. Also several cut scenes through-out the game are very well done.
2. Extremely detailed world. Developers have obviously taken a lot of care to produce a stunning and detailed world - fish in the lakes, crabs walking about, etc. Really makes it fun to play.
3. Something very satisfying about building up your settlement and watch your settlers go about their business. I guess like building a train set or flying a flight simulator - just building a nice settlement with content settlers is strangely addictive.
4. User Interface well laid out and very intuitive. Most people should be able to get going with the tutorial intro mission and common sense.
Minus points:
1. Way too easy. No difficulty adjustment that I can find. Simply build up your settlement and you have content citizens and loads of cash. Even maps with less resources (e.g. desert maps) just means that it takes longer to build up your settlement. There's no awkwards decisions here with limited cash and not enough food to go around. I never had a problem feeding or providing everything the settlers need on any map. Apparently they go on strike if they're not happy, but I never saw this once. Sim City this ain't.
2. Combat is a bit of an afterthought. Attacks from enemies are few and far between and really means there's little point in building walls around your city. With a decent number of soldiers you'll have no problem with fending off any enemy attack. Also, taking over a territory is simply a case of attacking the outpost there. This is a tiny building with enough space for 6 soldiers and the outpost seems to offer the soldiers inside no protection. Hence they're easily overwhelmed by a small force. If you could upgrade the outpost up to a castle (just like Settlers I) and populate with a decent defence then things would be interesting. But as it is, there's no reason to bother defending your land - just take it back from the enemy should they (on the very rare occasion) attack you.
Overall - combat needs a serious look for the next game - I appreciate that they're never going to compete with Age of Empires and those type of strategy franchises, but they need something more advanced and more difficult to master than this offering. Just way too easy for even mild fans of strategy games.
3. Some technical problems - needs a serious graphics card to play. My 512MB nVidia 7950GT was struggling in bits. Sreen scrolling is jerky, but that may have been also due to my 1GB RAM limitation (one of my memory sticks failed just as I was installing it). Also suffers from serious memory leakage. For the non-techno geeks out there, this means the game just continually grabs more and more of your computer memory the longer it plays. Eventually the game will crash, but you can predict the impending doom by the fact the your hard disk will start going mad about 5 mins before crash due to all memory swapping going on. I needed to restart the game about once every hour to avoid problems. The game actually says that it will run on 512MB of RAM but I seriously doubt that.
Overall - I like it just for the satisfaction of building a settlement and watching everyone going about their business. Beautiful to watch and a very detailed world that the developers have taken a lot of time to create. With more difficult and finely balanced resource maps that made you seriously consider every move you make and *much* more attention to combat, this could have been a real classic. Nearly...
Demo Tested September 15, 2007
39 out of 46 found this review helpful
This is only from playing the demo.
Settlers 6 is a free-form, city-building game set in a fairly typical medieval setting. In a typical scenario or map, the player is given a map divided into several regions and their central settlement is placed here. The objective then revolves around expanding this settlement and capturing other sectors of the map for resources. This is a similar ideal to the earlier games, however die-hard fans may find the game a little restrictive.
The game looks terrific, sounds excellent (with some good voice acting) and is very enjoyable. At present there are a few features that are underdeveloped, however this may be fixed before the main release. I recommend trying the demo first (try gamespot.com) nevertheless, I can recommend this game to most strategy fans.
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