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Discover, Build and Rule Your New World. 1701 A.D. Gold Edition includes the critically acclaimed empire building strategy game 1701 A.D. and introduces for the first time in North America the expansion 1701 A.D. – The Sunken Dragon. The Sunken Dragon adds to 1701 A.D.’s nearly limitless replayability with a new 11-mission, story-driven campaign and a new world editor that allows gamers to design and share maps for single-player or online play. New computer artificial intelligence profiles, buildings, subquests and an empire-shattering new natural disaster add even more depth to the robust 1701 A.D. experience. 1701 A.D. Gold Edition takes players to an 18th-century land under the Queen’s orders to develop settlements and grow a massive empire. Players must keep their citizenry happy by developing and acquiring goods to satisfy their ever-growing needs while working to gain the upper hand on opponents. Gamers will challenge wily AI antagonists, each with unique personalities and traits, or take on human opposition online and interact with them through diplomacy, trade, sabotage, espionage and even military might in order to reign supreme in the New World.
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1701 A.D. Gold Edition includes the critically acclaimed empire building strategy game 1701 A.D. and introduces for the first time in North America the expansion 1701 A.D. â?" The Sunken Dragon. The Sunken Dragon adds to 1701 A.D.'s nearly limitless replayability with a new 11-mission, story-driven campaign and a new world editor that allows gamers to design and share maps for single-player or online play. New computer artificial intelligence profiles, buildings, subquests and an empire-shattering new natural disaster add even more depth to the robust 1701 A.D. experience.
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3.7 out of 5 stars (29 customer reviews)
33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Different but Interesting., Oct 18 2009
By Chris M. Cone - Published on Amazon.com
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: 1701 A.D. Gold Edition with 1701 A.D. Sunken Dragon Expansion (DVD-ROM)
First off, it plays like Age of Empires, as far as the town building goes. Only it is much more intricate. As you Progress, and your cities advance, you are required to gather more and more DIFFERENT types of resources, and refine the resources in various ways. It becomes a real effort to balance your people's needs, lest they revolt, but to simply build a massive harvesting infrastructure will strap your cash due to upkeep costs. Further, no matter where you begin, you will not have the resources all nearby for you to simply wall around and build. You will have to search and build on various islands to properly supply your evolving economy. Setting up distribution routes, setting their pace properly (to not overflow your warehouses) is time consuming and one of the focal points of the game, and it actually is alot more fun than it sounds. Again the key is balance.However, Age of Empires type warfare is definitely not in this game. The focus stays on economics, not war. While you can build a fleet of warships and an army, the variety is very limited, and useful only as a cap off in your conquest of a map, and not the main tool to do so.
This game is alot of fun, but as I said, if you are looking for a war-type RTS, this game isn't really it. The learning curve is quite steep, and requires a bit of patience to realize why your empire is not working when you first play the game. This game isn't a brain scorcher, but is a much more delicate process than alot of other RTS games out there, not too challenging, but engrossing and now prefer this game over my old RTS games like Age of Mythology, Age of Empires, and is on par with Rise of Nations, which RoN too, is a great game.
EDIT: It seems something was updated with windows Vista, and it has indeed broken the game. Vista is not supported officially and may or likely cause the game to crash. :(
30 of 32 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best of Its Kind, Jun 19 2009
By Matthew Cooper - Published on Amazon.com
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: 1701 A.D. Gold Edition with 1701 A.D. Sunken Dragon Expansion (DVD-ROM)
I am so glad that the Germans are in love with this type of game, otherwise we in the US would be totally deprived of some of the most engrossing, rewarding, and FUN gameplay I have ever experienced. I have not stayed up until 5 am playing a game in 8 years, and indeed I was wondering if I was even the type of gamer who could get into a game that much anymore. I was wrong. For a person like me, who's not interested in the combat aspect of most strategy games, and who is much more interested in turtling a base to their exact preference, this game is a boon.
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun game, Oct 8 2008
By Laura - Published on Amazon.com
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: 1701 A.D. Gold Edition with 1701 A.D. Sunken Dragon Expansion (DVD-ROM)
I've enjoyed learning this game. Its not simple that I get bored but not so hard I can't play it to relax. I like that each island has its own strengths and weaknesses and items it can't produce which forces you to colonize other islands. I like the diplomacy and the items you can research in the school. It reminds me a little Masters of Orion II which I also love, so maybe I'm biased. I do have one complaint that I can't seem to get the trade function to work. I'm either misinterpreting the instructions or I'm just plain wrong, but manually sending my ships around is very annoying. The graphics are good for a strategy type game, and I enjoy the different characters of the other computer players. I've played for two days straight.
