The Nations Gold Edition

My biggest pet peeve with Alien Nations was that you had to micromanage every single worker constantly to get anything done. This is fixed in this game as you can't control anyone directly. Which is annoying in that it's too much in the other direction. In that sense it's more like SimCity. The pacing is still ridiculously slow. And on top of that the third stage in the game is entirely unforgiving. If you upgrade to the third age without the capital and resources to build the right kind of economy quickly, forget about it. I'd give it more stars because the difficulty level is so high which I actually like, but unfortunately, you're never really given the tools or training to succeed and because of that I think many new players will quit. Unlike most management games it doesn't really seem to have a cause and effect relationship that can be related in any meaningful way to charts or statistics screens. It basically boils down to: If you don't make enough soap quickly enough upon upgrading to the second age, your entire population will turn into criminals and rob your palace. That being said...if you're willing to fight the odds and deal with the harsh and unforgiving game play style and beat your head against the wall for a few missions until you actually understand what's going on...well, you're realize like I did that you could have been playing any other management game ever. Then you'd write this review. Then you'd go play any other management game ever.

I try to make this short cause my english is not good. The Nations game is pretty good. Played when i was i child, loved it and tried to get the nostalgia back, but GOG offers a just a verry raw version of the game. You have to spend much work to get the game even running properly and for this price, the gog service is unusual low. You have to: - Game starts but Blackscreen when you start a match (dont install game in gog suggested file) - flickering mouse cursor ( nobody really found a solution, some say in Nvidea settings turn off V sync and G sync but doesnt work) - You have an hidden tool exe where you can set HD resolution - Building limit of 20, must be new in the GOG version but its like when you set your basic production like stone and wood and game says not further. You have to HACK the game to repair this crap. You have really do much to make it even playable and i am working for an IT concern and needed 2 hours. Find all out by yourselfe or try to google all those solutions. Its a real efford and really sucks...

Great game, but I am reviewing the GOG version sold on here. I cannot get it to run on Windows 10. Compared to the predecessor Alien Nations (die Völker 1), which works and is available in multiple languages, die Völker 2 (The Nations) is not playable at all on my windows 10 computer. I can only see the menu (in English). Once I try to start/load a game, I just get a black screen. Also the cursor is doing some funny stuff in the menu. Not used to this from GOG. I specifically have re-bought countless old games on here, since they are playable, when my old disc versions are useless. Well, not so in this case. DO NOT BUY, you will not be able to play!

+ Time to time its a nice and relaxing game for a evening playing. But if you want play this game very often, it could be little boring. I like it cause its remember me my childhood gaming. - Optimalization for new PCs and OS is really teribble. Low FPS, "flashing mouse cursor", no option for 16:9. It could be fine to do some little "remaster" for new PCs.

Great game i played as littel kid it works fine on vista and wind 7 also zoom with mouse wheel works fine. Hope in some time we get the german language too ;)