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You decide "OK, I need to upgrade to the next level of city, I'm going to need to make beer". The game looks really great, but more importantly it is a lot of fun to play. I played it for about 20 hours over the past week, which for me is a very large portion of time and only possible because my wife and kids were out of town.
#Anno 1404 master builder series
Also can't believe I didn't pick up on the Anno series until now. I think I want to hold off on doing the sandbox game because I like having the mission structure for now.Ĭan't believe I waited so long on this. I'm hoping that I can restart it from a particular mission, but haven't looked yet. My only regret so far is that I started the campaign on easy, and I think I can definitely bump it up to medium. If you walked away at the wrong time, you'd come back to see your city had emptied out while you were gone. The downside of the Impressions games was that if one small thing got out of balance over time, the cascade effect was massive and fast. You can automate the hell out of things, which is great. I also really like the amount of control you have over trade routes.
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I'm liking the missions (especially when you have to save the town in the third mission), and find myself kind of interested in the story even. In the fourth mission, I got tools up and running as soon as I could, and it's been smooth sailing. Eventually they teach you to build them, and man, it takes four different buildings to do it.
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In the first two and a half missions, you can't build tools, and managing them can be tricky. The other thing that took a while to wrap my head around was how important tools were. The thing that took me longest to figure out was the difference between Markets and Small Warehouses (one is for clustering houses around, the other is for building stuff and collecting goods.
#Anno 1404 master builder manual
The manual is definitely lacking, but I really never looked at it until several hours in, and then figured out what I wanted from tool tips. The graphics are crazy pretty, and I spent a while at first tooling around the ocean watching whales and swordfish. One of my favorite parts of city builders is watching an empty field develop into a living city, and this is the first game since the Impressions city builders that's really given me that feeling. I started at around 8pm, and when I glanced at the clock again, it was half past 10. Holy crap, I forgot how much I like city builders. Just got this off GoGamer's sale, and really started it tonight (I did the first campaign mission last night).