Heritage of Kings: The Settlers™

I'll buy it when expansion is added. Have played it before. Let's just say it's different than the other Settlers hahah :)

I originally bought the gold edition of this game on DVD which came with the first expansion pack. I enjoyed it so much I also bought Legends, the second expansion on CD. Both expansions are missing here unfortunately. Maybe GOG will get them at some point, I don't know. So for a while will keep my discs. As I said I did enjoy this game, but, as other reviewers have said, the camera is annoying, the computer Ai just seems to pluck his troops out of thin air, especially in the later levels, which can be very frustrating. The map is pretty useless too. At the end of the day I would still prefer to play The Settlers 2 but it IS still a good game, just NOT the best in the series in my opinion.

Overall this game is great, I feel it needs more love in the reviews. Compatibility: still works fine on a modern computer with Win10, to get FullHD search for a patch online Cons: - The story is mediocre - Too Easy - Controls are fixed Pros: - Heroes - diverse with useful skills, much better than just controlling a regular army - It is so satisfying to macro (build economy) in this game. It's never boring to start a new map - Sound, Voices, dialogs are ok - sometimes great sometimes embarrassing - Map design - not repetitive, each map poses different challenges - Nice interaction with weather

This may not be "like other Settlers games," but it may be the BEST of them all (its definitely better than Settlers 7, but if not this game, then Settlers 6 may be my favorite). The reasons why many of the previous reviews of this game are so poor is that everybody wanted this game to be similar to Settlers IV. But it's not - it's completely different. What is important to remember here, as stated above, is you have to know what you are doing in this game, and be patient while you are learning from getting destroyed the first couple of times you play. The greatest challenge is being able to build up a strong economy fast enough before your enemies come to crush you. Some of the quests get extremely difficult as the campaign moves forward. Definitely worth $10. This is the third time I've purchased/played it in the past 8 years or so, and it still seems fresh and exciting. Now, if GOG, or Steam, or someone would offer the two expansions that go along with this game (that would be something for the wish list).