There's the realistic American scenario with a geographically correct map, and a set up that is identical every time. The second scenario is a randomly generated map which will come as a welcome relief once you've played the historical scenario a few times.
The game begins with the player controlling one of four nationalities: British, French, Spanish or Dutch. All the powers are present in the game and they're all staking their claim to the New World. You have to expand at a greater rate than the competition, make yourself more powerful and deal with the foreigners on a diplomatic level i.
As the game progresses, a second aspect comes into play. As your population grows and your military strength increases, there is an ever increasing possibility of fomenting rebellion. At the start your colony is too per cent loyal to the King.
But as unrest grows you coax your population to support the rebels until you eventually get to a stage where you can declare independence. However, once you do this, you have to fight off the armies of the controlling nation who don't take kindly to unruly Yanks. Players of Civilization will feel instantly at home with the control interface.
Once again, the game is tile-based, and troops, ships and other units can move a fixed number of tiles each turn. As they do, hidden parts of the landscape are gradually revealed to the player. Having established colonies at beneficial locations, it's time to allocate production, research and manage diplomatic relationships. Within each town, the player can determine which types of building to construct and what units to station there.
MicroProse has evidently put a fair bit of work into the game engine: the graphics are slicker and more professional looking and the tiles scroll smoothly. Fonts and general presentation have also been improved. Colonization has all the elements of Civilization that made it such a classic, but the more confined scope of this second game, rather than resulting in a less appealing game, has focused the gameplay to the extent that it is far easier to keep track of the finer details of your miniempire.
If you are familiar with Civilization you will realise that these improvements have attended to the two main criticisms of the original game. Our early impressions are that Colonization is not going to disappoint any fans of Civilization and should be a must-buy for anyone who has yet to try the original game. Browse games Game Portals.
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EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Reviewer: VIperMarine - favorite - March 17, Subject: is this a joke or something game load up goes through opening and then craps out on the first page when the ship is supposed to cross the sea to the new world. Loading takes about an hour, then a good 10 minutes for the introduction. And, your reward is an instant crash.
This makes it unplayable, and means that whoever brought this game back to life wasted a lot of time. For every sale we receive a small fee from the download store which helps us to keep this free website alive.
Thank you and have fun! Inspired by the acclaimed Sid Meier's Civilization , Colonization focuses on a single era in history from to , the discovery, exploration and colonization of the New World. This New World can be the historically-accurate Americas North and South or a randomly-generated world with varying resources and challenges.
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