Please rate it below on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is the lowest and 10 is the highest score. The Settlers. Game screenshot. Strategic Simulations, Inc. MobyGames Wikipedia. The Settlers games Windows-ported games. Visit TheSettlers-Alliance. Experience the reimagined and legendary build-up strategy game with new features developed by the original creator Volker Wertich.
All Rights Reserved. Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are registered or unregistered trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U. Back Arrow Left Black arrow pointing left. Watch trailer. Settlements in S4 have a fixed boundary, and to expand you'll need to either create pioneers who will slowly push the borders back, or build towers and castles.
To ensure you have enough manpower, you'll eventually need to build small, medium or large residences to hold more settlers. In military terms, soldiers can be created at first, second or third level of capability, but they can't be promoted, so making the right initial choice is essential. Adding squad leaders boosts morale, or you can pump them up with war machines such as catapults and warships or add specialist military units unique to each race.
New to the series is the fact that your military might is tied closely to your economic power. You can have more soldiers than your rival but if he's ahead in production, his men will fight that much harder. Priests are another fascinating settler type, useful for casting offensive spells and beneficial ones, like shortcuts, which open paths through previously impassable terrain. Along with the direct link between military capabilities and the economy, there are three races: Romans, Mayans and Vikings, each with their own features, building costs and weapons.
There's also a new enemy, the Dark Tribe, that bring in different game strategies as they ruin all the land they settle. In Age Of Empires and Civ-type games, you move through several eras, gaining new units and buildings, but that's never been part of the Settlers ethos.
The buildings you create at the start could be with you at the end as there are no upgrades, weapon improvements and the like, which might surprise some of you. You can change many special units back into carriers, recruit the new gardener unit to repair land ruined by the Dark Tribe, add hunters to collect meat, and recruit saboteurs in multiplayer games.
Other additions include donkey carts for creating new colonies, multiplayer trade, and a superb seamless zoom option. With a half-decent graphics card you can play at resolutions up to 1,x1, and still zoom in until one building fills the screen. S4 makes the most of 'kick ass' cards with filtering and texture support. Multiplayer gamers also now have more options, either across a LAN or on the Net on the free Blue Byte Game Channel, but the small number of single and multiplayer maps is disappointing.
Although the opening screens have a slot of 'custom' maps, there's nothing in the manual and no map editor. That said, though, S4 is a tremendously challenging game with weeks of varied gameplay behind it.
I'd like to have seen a less cluttered, more predictable landscape but the in-game menus, the excellent keyboard shortcuts and the incredible depth make this a hot contender for the strategy game crown.
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