Anno 117: Pax Romana

Damn it, I'm usually more forgiving to bad games, especially games I really like. Not a hardcore Anno player, 1st one I've ever played was anno 1800, but I fell in love with it from day one. Anno 117 has to be better than Anno 1800, it's the next one in the series. It is 7years later. This is supposed to be a next gen title, but it's just not. I know I've only played 4hrs or so, but it's enough to start seeing flaws that will not go away as the game progresses. IMO this is a downgrade from Anno 1800 visually. Only thing it's got going is the ray tracing. But if your pc can't even handle that, then it will be an even bigger downgrade. Personally ray tracing does add a very nice layer visually but everything else seems like a downgrade from the previous game. Even RT can't fix it. I bought it on sale but after many months of refusing to do so. I caved it because I knew eventually I will still need to see it for myself. Other reviews do paint a good picture but I just won't know for myself until I try it. All those reviews are pretty much all right. I'll keep forcing this game onto myself maybe it will click, maybe I will stop comparing it to Anno 1800 one day, but at the moment I cannot do that. This is a next gen game. I refuse to play something next gen that looks and feels inferior to it's 7year old predecessor. Mainly I'm hoping they put a little or maybe a lot more work into it, so I can come back and enjoy this game as it should have been. It has so much potential. Update 17hr later: So yes it's still janky and the story is even worse than I thought. But graphics have started to grow on me. I played with the graphics settings to give me a little more fps, now I'm around 80-100 most of the time. On Oled and HDR. Second world you go to, graphics are gorgeous. That's what made me write an update. Yes I'm enjoying it more than I did when I wrote my first review. Full price this is an absolute NOOO. But on sale yeah I think I could recommend. How big of a sale depends on a person. To me 45 bucks was good enough. For some 30 would be that number. So if you get it on one of those sales and you really like Anno. I don't think you will completely regret it. But don't get me wrong. Compared to Anno 1800 this game is pretty bad. I know my review is very vague and all over the place, but do with it what you will.

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Super Game macht bock vorallem Coop aber bitte lasst mich alle statuen spiegeln können ihr penner 9/10

It’s a moderately entertaining city builder that has high replay value but is extremely repetitive. Be aware that the war aspect is only a side note to the game. The AI is stupid at best and completely nonsensical at worst. City builders should be better than this by now. City builder games have not progressed in any meaningful fashion since Sim City. It’s disappointing to say that twenty years ago Sim City and all its sequels gave us the best we were ever going to have. The biggest disconnect in this game is the representation of your population. Sim City was actually one for one citizens in your city. It was engrossing. Obsessively satisfying. Like watching an anthill with endless possibilities. In these modern games the visual representation of your citizens are only eye candy. There’s no real connection between them and what’s actually going on in your city. They just say the same canned phrases and repeat the same canned routes with no real personality at all. Clicking on a building gives stats but tells you nothing at all about the personality of the people that live there. It’s just a canned phrase depending on their class. To elevate these kinds of games to greatness the graphics must represent what’s actually going on in the city. Cookie cutter houses for four classes and cookie cutter industrial buildings. The AI in the game for the NPCs is equally disconnected. They’ll have no ships until you declare war on them and suddenly they’ll have twenty top of the line vessels. There’s no connection with what they're doing on their island and how the game is actually played. Take over an island and you’ll see the complete disconnect. The cities don’t even function. They’re laid out in the most bizarre fashion like a robot that has a vague idea of what we’re supposed to be doing. Actually, it’s downright creepy. The most difficult NPCs doesn’t outplay you. They just get a massive dose of free resources even though it’s clear they haven’t earned them. They have no strategy. They're just resource juggernauts that you can’t catch up to. The best way to defeat them is very early game or late game when you catch up. NPCs have no personality. They are only cardboard cutouts repeating phrases. This is how a mid level game elevates itself to excellence. Keeping supply chains up is only interesting for one or two play throughs. After that we need some depth. We need to feel we’re actually creating something unique. Our sandlot is special. The NPCs need to imitate real human opponents or just make them make sense. Anything besides silly resources and building units from destroyed buildings. The interface is slow. It takes a long time to load a multi player game and the maps aren’t that big. Why is every map islands? Ubisoft’s subscription policy is terrible too. Just sell me the complete game. I’ll buy it. I don’t want a subscription.

데아빌 이후 전략시뮬을 진짜 많이 찾아다녔는데 파이널스탠드, 디플로마시, 로만 트리엄프를 거쳐서 이게 최고임 ㄹㅇ. 캠페인 볼륨도 생각보다 많고 반전도 있고 재밌고 무엇보다 공부 안하고 그냥 하다보면 알 수 있어서 좋음.

Great beautiful game. 9.9/10 If you liked Anno 1800 this will hit home for you IMO.

Przyjemna gra, osobom zainteresowanym tematyką pozwala na puszczenie wodzy fantazji ;) Dosłownie pierwsza gra Anno którą udało mi się ukończyć w takim tępie. Zawartość gry oddaje, mechaniki, jak zawsze, na plus, postaci da się lubić ♥️ Ogólnie polecam serdecznie, wiadomo że znajdą się problemy, wiele osób o nich pisze, ale mi jako osobie która nie gra zazwyczaj w gry tego typu grało się po prostu przyjemnie.