Goods production is also great and plentiful.
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It's eye pleasing, customizable with lots of shortcuts, and usually not in your way, however, it requires a fairly steep learning curve and alot of trial and error to figure it all out. The interface, although not exactly intuitive, is pretty nice. One of the low points in the game is hearing, 'a building has stopped producing goods' every few minutes or seconds becomes rather tedious. While it's pleasing to the ear, dialogue is good, voice acting wonderful the frequency with which they happen can become quite annoying. The game is narrated in both continous and campaign mode.
From the hammer's pounding in your busy city to bird's chirping in your forests to the armies shouting with war cries Anno 1404 is alive with sounds of all types. I don't think you could look anywhere else and find a better sounding game in the genre. The sound is also fairly spectacular for a game in this genre. The graphics for Anno 1404 aren't breath taking, but they have such charm, such character, a goodly amount of detail, and so much is going on on the screen at once that it all comes together to make it better than the sum of its part. Either people who mention this have really low end machines or they are impossible to impress. I've read tale that the graphics aren't good on these boards. Anno 1404 stands out the most in continuous play mode where you decide what the conditions for victory are. There's nothing bad about the campaign, I just didn't find that it stood out to me. It's almost worthy of a gaming oscar if there was such a thing. However, I would like to add the scripting and the vocal acting is pretty amazing. It's you're basic campaign outting with any game in this genre. After opening up "more buildings are now available" several hours in for the 5th or 6th time, I was more and more excited thinking this round has to be the last, only to have it announced at some point later in my experience.
Anno 1404 is no different.įirst, I would like to say, the sheer volume of trade buildings and products that you can produce, trade, and are needed for your civilization to thrive is nearly mindboggling.
Anno 1404 is my first outting, however, I am quite familiar with other games that Blue Byte has had their hand in and have usually been substantially impressed. By MerrickBFox | Review Date: AugI'm very new to this series.