Anno 117: Pax Romana

After Anno 1800, Anno 117 had some big expectations to live up to—and in my opinion, it delivers. Anno 117 brings back all the great mechanics that make sense within its historical setting while preserving the modern Anno feel in a fantastic world. I'm already looking forward to the upcoming DLCs and can highly recommend Anno 117.

It is my understanding is that most of the hate is coming from the fact that previous Anno had more content after years of support. I have only played the previous title for 25 minutes or so, and there are lol of similarities between the two I played; however I would like to share what I like more about Pax Romana: * Default WASD camera controls. * Customizable hot-bar for frequently used buildings. * The grass, trees, water, and overall graphical fidelity. * The UI and chain organization is much more intuitive. * The Roman and Celtic theme. 2026 is a weird time in gaming. It isn't new for games to release content after the initial release, just look at: * Warcraft 3 (2002) * Red Alert 2 (2000) * The Sims (2000) * Halo 3 (2007) * Morrowind (2002) * Any MMORPG - Runescape, WoW, MapleStory, etc.. I'm certainly not enthusiastic about the revenue model.... I like supporting developers, but I also like buying the majority of the game at release. Am I expected to pay an additional $35 per year for the next 5 years to unlock each years content? The unfortunate circumstance is that users can only speculate if the new content will be enjoyable, worthwhile, not stripped form the original design or previous titles, and is genuinely a unique and new experience for Anno vets and new comers. Games with years of DLC are genuinely games I avoid if I am arriving late. This model really seems like a sword that can cut both ways. Moving on, I do find this game to have a relatively gentle learning curve. The steps to learn each citizen and tech tree is fairly simple. The combat reminds me of a simplified Total War since I can click and drag my army to resize, reposition, and set up my flanks and retreats. Micromanaging your troops and ships will save lives and win battles. The primary layer of enjoyment for me is city building and logistics, but it can be fun rushing an island and destroying its leader. I haven't played too much with the combat mechanics, nor have I had any long wars to win. My only real gripe is that the real time waiting of ship building, troop recruitment, and province to province travel can feel a bit cumbersome - I'm mostly talking about the 15 minutes real time it takes to transport cargo province to province. When I reached that stage of the game for the first time, my enjoyment levels started to take a dip. The other annoying thing is campaign related. [spoiler] I spent forever trying to kill the jackass pirate lord in the campaign and I felt like I was hardly rewarded. His pirate cove was tricky and took me a few attempts to figure out the strategy.[/spoiler]

This is similar to Anno 1800. For now it is quite barebones. This needs more DLC and the integrated mod loader within the game asap.

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I adore this game-- Its beautiful, engaging & a delight to play. I love my lil' cities Compares favorably to Anno 1800 base game in my opinion, hopeful the devs get a few seasons of DLC to build on it

Really great game.

finde das gut game

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game is broken cant get past the point where i have to put a governor villa on weaterflod but i building on a rong island in second part and now the game still thinks i have that land when i have that land no more beacause it broke before when i picked a island that whas not on the quest dont let us build on other island than in the f tutorial stupid devs cant you make it so when your doing the quest and have to build on one of the 2 wtf is this payed 80€ for broken game now i have to restart 5 hours of gameplay because they pushed the game. how can gold go from +200 to -200 just in a coint flip i know your cheating just stop cheating game. DEPRESSING why is it raining/thunder the hole time no sunshine wtf real life is depressing why you make the game depressing too? we play games to be happy and enjoy them... am just getting more and more depressed the longer i play STOP IT! make it fun and sunshine wtf i life in belgium it rains/thunders here everyday aswell fun is holiday sunshine etc what is this am i the only one? main menu seems so nice sunshine etc but ones you go in the compain mode its like no thank you bye! put a option for it for god sake thunder on/off rain on/off not that hard do... when you finished what was the first thing you devs did? holiday right... there you go... make it holiday fever.. the AI patting needs a lot of work aswel go straight you ask they will go to other side of island to board a ship? why is that go to the f ship.... same for combat stuff needs a lot of work also. evacuation dose almost not work just delete that part its stupid. overall one anno is other anno just diffrent skins, not worth the 80 bucks it costs now tbh. could have got a better night for 80 bucks that you never forget instead i bought this WTF !

Guter Lachs, das Ding!