Anno 117: Pax Romana

Bleibt alles in allem weit hinter Anno 1800 zurück. Spielfluss ist deutlich langsamer und weniger animierend. Grafik ist toll, aber das macht noch kein gutes Anno. Ein stärkerer 1800 Klon wäre wünschenswerter gewesen, es wirkt wie ein grafisches Upgrade das von 1800 Niveau aus meiner Sicht wirklich nicht mehr nötig gewesen wäre, mechanisch scheint es hinter 1800 deutlich zurückzubleiben. Die Bugrate ist fast ein Jahr nach release immer noch beachtlich.

Not even a year after release the game is discounted 30%(How about giving me some money back then ubisoft), I bought the gold edition including the year 1 pass but I don't get dlc packs that are released in the first year. Normally I wouldn't care about cosmetic dlc's but just the principle of selling me a year one pass that doesn't include year one content angers me beyond belief. But hey it's Ubisoft what did I expect, as greedy as EA but just so much worse in their application, both are really bad but Ubisoft always finds a way to incompetently make things worse. On the game itself there is just one thing I have to say, go pirate Anno 1800 with all dlc's. Even base version that game is better in every way, progression isn't based on your island burning down or everyone getting sick if you have one need unsatisfied, it actually has some depth between the different regions and because of dlc's it actually has an endgame that is not in anyway exist in anno 117, oh and not to forget a singleplayer campagin that wasn't abruptly cut at the start of act 3 or 4 because they had to make the release date. TLDR: Ubisoft suck real bad, all teeth and stuff. Game not good previous was better even without dlc, me big sad and disappoint Roman setting much more interesting but doesn't matter because game bad.

Pese que estéticamente es precioso, me gusta la ambientación y como primerizo en la saga me ha gustado lo que he encontrado, en buena consciencia no puedo recomendar este juego, incluso dejando de lado de la polémica con su Season Pass que no incluye algunos de los DLC, opiniones que comparto plenamente. Anno Pax Romana es un juego obscena, deliberada y evidentemente mutilado e incompleto. Es un juego Early Access, al que para convertir en juego completo, hay que pagar DLCs. Por ejemplo, la idea de las distintas provincias, es buenísima, da mucho juego al cooperativo, da diversidad de jugabilidad pero nuevamente, aunque se incluye a Albion, se capa Egipto - la región del delta - detrás de DLC. Y aún así, todo esto podía entenderlo, no es que la saga Anno no haya hecho esto antes: no se le escapa a nadie que se pase por la pàgina de Steam de Anno 1800. Lo que no se puede es, para vender los DLC, resolver a las bravas el juego base. Entiendo que a nadie le importa el modo historia en este tipo de juegos, puesto que el modo Sandbox infinito es donde los puristas encontraran el disfrute... Pero el modo historia, tal y como está es un mero tutorial, casi una demo, con un final abrupto, incompleto y sin sentido, cuando la situación planteada da muchísimo más juego. No espero una trama profundísima, pero la trama planteada es un insulto a la inteligencia. El juego para mi murió definitivamente cuando, una vez arrasada una isla rival, no pude tomarla. Entiendo que el juego es un city builder, no es un RTS y que el objetivo es ganar por la vía económica y no la militar. Pero la opción de la invasión militar existe: el juego la plantea, y se mire por donde se mire, tomar la isla es una acción ya simplemente económica. Y que no tiene ningún sentido que arrases a un enemigo hasta los cimientos y no se tome la isla. Me pareció tremendamente chapucero. Por todo ello, me siento decepcionado con el juego y como decía, no es un Early Access. Yo de Anno Pax Romana esperaba un juego completo y me he encontrado un juego cogido con pinzas, claramente cercenado y cuyo cooperativo en su salida encima funcionaba mal, porque por algún motivo, Steam no es suficiente y se tiene que instalar el launcher de Ubisoft. La única manera que el estudio plantea para resolver todos los problemas es que el jugador pague por DLCs con la esperanza de que uno complete la experiencia de juego de la carencia que encontró, a lo burro persiguiendo una zanahoria. Y lo siento, eso no va a ocurrir. Sin más, decir que por el precio de Anno Pax Romana, si queréis una experiencia Anno completa, id a por el 1800 con los DLCs y tendréis un juego completo a un precio completo. Y vista la experiencia con 1800, igual en 5 años, Pax Romana estará completo como ese. En cualquier caso, hasta entonces que no os engañe la estética atractiva del juego y evitadlo.

Just broke 100 hours, finished the campaign on launch and again recently. Havent fully dug into Endless yet. Ive tried anno a few times over the years, and always bounced off it hard due to not really being interested in Naval themes and naval warfare, i know i know, anno is a production chain game, not an RTS. You know what, most of the Anno fanbase argue over little idiosiyncracies and which game is better. Eh, Sorry, Anno 117 is the best. And yes its got heaps of problems, yet in MY opinion, its the only one I dont bounce off of hard. You know what it is? All the new features. Ground combat being the main one. Thats all i needed to make Anno work for me. Pax Romana setting, take my money. For Rome!! Pros- Ground combat ACTIVE PAUSE (how do you peasants at ubisoft NOT have this feature in 1800??) Roman setting Cons- AI generated content in a game of this budget, with these resources? Your having a laugh mate. AAA my ass. There is no effing excuse. Ubi Connect DLC spam is comin' MID Some of the cultural choices are completely boneheaded, sorry not sorry. Keep ya politics out me historical fiction. Regardless of that, the dialogue is still written by ai or sanitized french-canadians anyway so there is zero point in paying it any mind. Procurator Corinus is the only highlight of the cast, after doing the campaign twice, every other character was bland and forgettable. Ill update this review when the games complete. Yes, this is a DLC pipeline. Yes im aware. Dont care, good game. Maybe UBISOFT wouldnt have the vultures circling their rotting carcass if they made good games, without the DLC farm.

This game runs like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ going down a hot slide. Even with a High end PC, everything appears blurry, laggy, or sometimes doesn't even load, Anno 1800 ran better even with older tech and had more details. I assume this is a “launch first, fix later” situation, but frankly, there is nothing in this game worth waiting around to see improved. The developers should be ashamed of themselves, or perhaps proud, since they may be the first people in history to evolve something backwards.

boring af

I am so confused the game is loveling made but the content is just NOT THERE. If you can get it on DEEP discount sure. But go play 1800

Releasing this game with a "Year 1" Pass and then launching two DLCs within the first year that aren't included in it is incredibly scummy. It's a shameless cash grab by Ubisoft and a disappointing, anti-consumer practice from the developers. On top of that, the game itself is bland and BOOORING. It's worse than Anno 1800 in almost every possible way. The AI is terrible, the gameplay feels shallow, the design is uninspired, and even the graphics are a step backward. This game is a huge disappointment. I will never ever give money to Ubisoft again.

honestly kinda boring i do though like the way you can add different production building around and in your city to gain different bonuses. other than that anno 1800 is still more fun and better in most cases but hey to each their own

I've been playing for a little over a week and i love it. I just hit my first crash after 31 hours by trying to load a game while in the game. I keep restarting because i love to build from scratch so i cant speak too much on the endgame, but the building tools and systems are awesome and fun to use. Learning curve took a couple hours but it's a smooth play now.