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Anno 1503 A.D.

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4.3/5

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4.3

62 Reviews

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Anno 1503 A.D.
Description
ANNO 1503 A.D. includes Anno 1503: The New World and its expansion Treasures, Monsters & Pirates. Lay claim to the New World in an epic saga of adventure and discovery. ANNO 1503 A.D. is a PC title that blends the excitement of real-time strategy with the depth of empire building. The aim of the...
Genre:
Simulation - Strategy - Managerial
Tags:
Strategy, Simulation, Classic, Management, Sandbox, show 8 more... Historical, Real-Time, Resource Management, Relaxing, Managerial, City builder, Trading, Transportation
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4.3/5

( 62 Reviews )

4.3

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Product details
2003, Max Design GesMBH, ESRB Rating: Teen...
System requirements
Windows 10, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, 2 GB HDD...
Time to beat
38.5 hMain
39 h Main + Sides
-- Completionist
39 h All Styles

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Description
ANNO 1503 A.D. includes Anno 1503: The New World and its expansion Treasures, Monsters & Pirates.

Lay claim to the New World in an epic saga of adventure and discovery. ANNO 1503 A.D. is a PC title that blends the excitement of real-time strategy with the depth of empire building.

The aim of the game is to establish colonies and seek out wealth and power. Watch your colonies grow while establishing trade and diplomatic ties with neighbouring cultures. Engage in combat on land and at sea to protect your colonies or to maintain freedom and independence.

The all-new combat system allows for much more sophisticated tactical preparation and some truly epic land and sea-based battles. Enjoy the variety and challenge of five varying climate zones while competing against computer-controlled players, including interactions with nine different cultures such as the Africans, Aztecs and Native Americans.

Stretch your influence through a powerful economic system which varies depending on location and includes goods such as weaponry, raw materials, and necessities such as clothes and food as well as more exotic items like silk and spices. Trades can be made several different ways, via an easily accessible trading menu that allows you to interact with other nations and form peace treaties. However, some cultures may rely on a more offensive, aggressive style of interaction, which can lead to potential conflict.

  • Unique blend of real-time strategy with the depth of an empire-building epic.
  • Compete against computer-controlled players and interact with nine different cultures from the 16th Century - each with their own personal traits and unique characteristics.
  • Settle in climates as diverse as frozen tundra, bleak deserts and lush jungles - each with their own unique natural resources, vegetation, wildlife and terrain.
  • New combat system - vary your tactics based on the opponent, terrain and weaponry.
  • Enhanced AI - differences in cultures lead to a variety of behaviors and interactions.
  • Over 250 authentic building types including tobacco plantations, watchtowers and cannon foundries.
  • Several gameplay modes - Single Scenario, Campaign, and Open-Ended

© 2003 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved. Anno, Ubisoft, and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the US and/or other countries.

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DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
38.5 hMain
39 h Main + Sides
-- Completionist
39 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Simulation - Strategy - Managerial
Tags:
Strategy, Simulation, Classic, Management, Sandbox, show 8 more... Historical, Real-Time, Resource Management, Relaxing, Managerial, City builder, Trading, Transportation
Works on:
Windows (10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2003-03-23T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Company:
Max Design GesMBH / Ubisoft
Size:
949 MB
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Rating:
ESRB Rating: Teen (Violence)
Game features
Single-player
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Posted on: June 30, 2023

RetroBro64

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Games: 402 Reviews: 11

Sadly, not the best Version of this Game

First of all the Anno series is amazing and each game in it is worth playing, in my opinion. 1503 in particular is a complex city builder that feels ahead of its time in many ways. Keep in mind that like the rest of the series its more about building and managing the economy than warfare which is kind of basic. There is GameRanger and the Annoverse Discord, where you have good chances of finding people to play multiplayer even now. I would recommend getting the GOG version, only if you care about it being DRM-Free. For anyone else who wants to play the best version of this game, currently I sadly have to recommend the Anno: History Collection (A:HC) from the Ubisoft store which includes 1602, 1503, 1701 and 1404 with many worthwhile updates: - Support for up to 4K resolution with UI that works (the HD patch mod is a nice try, but can't keep up with this) -64-bit support for support of modern systems (feels less janky than the original) - Working friend system for easily creating and joining games (much easier than using GameRanger, Radmin VPN, Hamachi, etc.) and a low chance of finding public games - The people on AnnoVerse usully play the History Collection version of the older Anno Games, good luck finding people elsewhere (it did work once over gameranger) I am disappointed that Ubisoft didn't release the History Collection as an update to GOG and split the already small player base, but if you want to play the best old Anno games, you can get A:HC from a cheap game key website for ~10€. I will definitely wait for a deep discount on Anno 1800.

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Posted on: April 17, 2021

grazy9999

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Games: 88 Reviews: 1

Best Anno

Challanging and fun building game. Settle on an island produce goods and grow a big city. Great music and the art ist still nice to watch even in a low resolution. This one aged very well and is as much fun as it was years ago. Despite others seem to have problems to play the game on windows 10 in 2021, for me the game works with Win 10 Version 10.0.2.1000.

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Posted on: March 28, 2021

Jailbreak

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Games: 50 Reviews: 2

Classic but won't work on Win10 no more

The game itself is an absolute classic. But it won't work under Windows 10 no more and I played it alot with that OS. I haven't played in a while, wanted to get into it again but during the loading screen, the game turns black, you hear the music for one second and then it crashes back to Windows. Please gog, try to do something about that! It WAS playable under Win10 once!

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Posted on: June 21, 2023

moczara

Verified owner

Games: 219 Reviews: 4

HD patch Good Game!

Very good game! much more complicated than others from this series. Here is link to hd patch: https://chomikuj.pl/quabe/ANNO1503+HD+PATCH To install it copy the file into main game folder than set resolution to max. (resolution will change only in game not in menu) resolution will be set to 1600x900 enjoy! You can keep original file if you wanna. All credits to german community members for this one!

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Posted on: December 31, 2018

notrandom

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Games: 1174 Reviews: 6

I love this Series but...

I love this Series but if you're expecting a fair fight you won't be getting that here. The ANNO series has given me hours of fun and I still play it every year or so. The graphics and sound of all the ANNO series has always exceeded the standards of the time. There is a lot of fun to be had with this game. Where this series falls short is cheating NPC's. I'd like to point out that this may not affect everyone the same so you may love this game regardless. However the people who enjoy strategy will find this very annoying. What I mean by this is there is almost no real chance of economically crushing your enemies. They must all be put to the sword. That is the only means of conquering them. You can control the entire board cutting off you're NPC opponents from the resources they need. Even destroying there ports so they are cut off from all external supplies. At this point you should be able to watch them slowly crumble from a once modern superpower back to a small insignificant village. Unfortunately for the player that never happens. The NPC's citizens and cities will riot and recover endlessly all the while some how maintaining their technology and military might. It will become obvious to the player that they must swoop in with overwhelming military might to face off against the NPC's never ending magical resources and military. It is a real shame and the only stain on what would be a pristine RTS experience that could leave you playing this series regularly for years to come. I do still play this series every now and then but I'm always left with a deep sadness over what this series could have and should have been.

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