I love this game and in all its micro-manage glory. You control a group of.....non-pacifist smurfs I guess
(modeled after the Romans, Egyptians or Chinese) and build your city who's economy is SUPER dependent on everything running smoothly (the wood cutter cuts wood, which gets turned into planks by a specialist, which get delivered to a building site, to build a mine to extract ore, to use at the smith along with the ore from a different mine to make iron bars, which are given to the weapons smith to make weapons, only he also needs coal from the coal mine, but the coal miners are on strike cause you didn't provide them with food, cause you forgot to build a stone cutter who would provide the stone to build the water mill which would gather water from the river for your pig and wheat farm, so now you have no source of food, no source of ore for your weapons smith, so no weapons for the new recruits to fight off the invading army that just appeared.....(breath breath breath breath).......)So yeah if you like cute cartoony graphics and a micro-managed economy this game is for you. It's like something between the more typical city builder (think Pharaoh) and Age of Empires.
I think number 2 is considered the best in the series, but I like 3 a bit more (though I only played the 10th anniversary edition of 2). Then there are the more modern settler games that have less cartoony graphics and thus are less fun (not to mention the settlers 7 has retarded always on DRM from ubisoft
).Any other fans of the series?
