![]() There is a choice between a historical map (America) or a randomly generated map (the New World), and players may also construct their own map with the included scenario editor. Landing off the coast of America in 1492, the player could choose to represent either Britain, Spain, France or The Netherlands, exploring the New World, establishing colonies, managing trade routes and dealing with the local Indian populations. As your colonies grow larger and larger, you inevitably encounter native populations and are confronted with competing imperial powers from the Old World. You have no knowledge of what lies ahead of your ship, so you must explore until you find a suitable spot to lay down your first colony. In the beginning of the game you are given a trading/exploration ship and a small group of colonists. The game begins with the European discovery of the Americas (1500) and continues until approximately the time of the American Revolution (1800). You face many of the same challenges that faced colonial organizers of the time-competition from other Old World powers, strange native cultures, the problems of establishing profitable trade programs, and the problems of organizing an army from a rag-tag band of colonists. Sid Meier's Colonization game description The treasures of an entire continent await you. Your colonists anxiously follow you to shore. ![]() an 8 for the windows port because of some annoying bugs.The New World lies before you with all its peril, promise and infinite possibility. ![]() gives civilization a run for itself being a deeper game, focusing in a great historical event, makes caesar series seem a little plain, and remind us that a good game is always about its gameplay, graphics are just the nice touch. if not, try it too, just a brilliant game. if you are a win xp user, you better save often, otherwise, you will find yourself yelling at your PC (like I did) just before losing an afternoon's hard work.Ī brilliant game, if you still use your old 486, try it. and the controls are not the only thing buggy about this game. but that's something windows users should be used to. Sounds, are somewhat dissapointing, but, let's face it, this genre does not need help of a great soundtrack to entertain.Ĭontrols, well, a mouse driven interface, that worked very well for the DOS colonization, but this windows port seems to be a little buggy, and the mouse does not respond to your command. Every country has a unique color to id their units, and every native faction have their own buildings. The graphics are well drawn, kind of what you would expect from a turn based strategy game of the 90's, and this windows port uses the same graphics the old colonization used. It may sound a little hard at first, but once you get the idea, you will love this game. And the economics models is deep enough to amuse you for hours thinking about the best way to play a turn. There are many American native races also (use a scout as much as possible, it will help you, a lot!), and you can always trade with the natives or you country (if you haven't declared independence of course).The AI DOES KNOW about tactics hehe, and seems to develop strong armies faster than you can usually, so you have to use your diplomatic skills at first, and maintain a steady grow to think going to war with anyone. There is a difficulty level option, and you can always choose the country you will represent from the start (the netherlands and spain seem to be the most powerful countries given their advantages, but that's for me hehe). Seasoned strategy gamers will find it very similar to previous strategy games, and is not that difficult to get into it. If you are not into strategy games, you will have a rough time learning the many aspects seen in this game, but giving it some time, you will get hooked up. To begin with, the gameplay, is just smooth, a great turn based strategy game. And this time, it was not the whole mankind history like in civilization, but just the colonization process given in the Americas, and let's be honest, playing against any of the monarchies found in the game is fun hehe. At first, colonization proved that Sid Meier was not a good game maker, but one of the greatest (including the developing teams he has worked with). Games that recreate a historical time of mankind are always welcome.
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