Posted on: December 4, 2015

Ramevox

Games: 650 Reviews: 68

Doesn't make sense

I'm at 20 hours and I decided to stop playing the 10th Anniversary, because this game doesn't make any sense to me. The Settlers 2 is one of my the most favourite games, I think it would land in my personal top 10 list. The original is so wonderfully playable even 20 years after the release late and honestly I cannot think of any reasonable way to fix or refresh it. Every single element is in its proper place, including the wonderfully functional graphics. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about the remake from 2006, which grew old to me after only 20 hours of playing the campaign missions. At its base, it's a faithful copy of the original, but various "refreshed" features are so baffling and unnecessary, they led to breaking the original's balance. First off, the 3D implementation is absolutely useless, it doesn't improve the gameplay - it makes it worse. While in the original ground levels could be easly told from the first glance and you could plan your building ahead of time, it's not the case in the remake. Building roads is irritiating, you need to destroy them all the time and put them again just to make sure you will be able to fit vital structures. You can't even open multiply windows! The AI is flawed and often it's really hard to figure out why a mine didn't receive its food which is lying around in storehouses. And there are maps. They're all awful. They're much bigger than the original's which leads to expanding and expanding with boring attacking and defending outposts, while you have no need to take care of your economy. While you would win on the original's map right after completing the build-up and simply rushing down your opponent, in the remake you will sit through pointless campaigns of soldiers hitting each others, conquering 10+ enemy's outpost until you reach the portal (in the campaign). It quickly turns into a chore and a waste of time. It's better to play the original, which is - eh - just better.

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Posted on: August 30, 2014

gabiballetje

Games: 64 Reviews: 3

Settlers as it was meant to be.

Settlers 1 and 2 were and always will be the best of the bunch. Settlers 1 got it right mostly, but 2 made it look a little better, and polished controls and made it play more fluently. This game is exactly the same under the hood, all the same way to play, but the graphics are better and in 3D, the music is very nice, somehow it doesn't start to annoy me at any time, and it also has a map editor. As a nice extra touch they gave several different races a different look as well. This is not hardcore RTS, almost not at all, it's not hardcore resource and building management like Banished. This is good fun, not too hard, but don't slack off too much, or you will go wrong. If you like anything Settlers, or not too difficult resource management, with minimal RTS, this is for you. It could be slightly better if they expanded just a little bit, but not too much, it shouldn't lose it's core or go RTS, like most other Settlers games did.

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Posted on: October 29, 2017

ctx144k

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Games: 20 Reviews: 6

Addon / German language

Hey - PLEASE ADD THE ADDON Hey - PLEASE ADD GERMAN LANGUAGE After this ill buy ...

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Posted on: May 18, 2020

Saijave

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Games: 39 Reviews: 1

Good remake, works with Vikings Addon

This Version is compatible with the Vikings Addon. The DnG Version itself is polished and has some improvements. +LAN Multiplayer still works. +Better interface +-AI still not very good, even on high difficulty +HP from soldiers with mouseover I lost my DnG Disk long ago, but i tried the german fanpatch for the gog version today. So i wondered, if could combine it with the vikings files. The filestructure for this game is very easy and even the installroutine was nearly just copy paste from the disk. I assume, that the english version has to be installed from gog, beacuse the . If youre german, install now the fanpatch. Next step is to open the setup.exe from the vikings disc (some english files are available even the addon was only released in germany, as it seems...) with 7zip and simply put the stuff in the game folder and overwrite. If you run into trouble, you can always recheck the game in the gog launcher.

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Posted on: November 28, 2016

nuhawk

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Games: 34 Reviews: 1

Missing Vikings

Hi there, like this game with a lot aof charme and fun. but i miss the Viking addon. i think was only published in europe/germany. Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_II_10th_Anniversary A Vikings add-on is available for the German, Czech, Polish and Russian versions of the game.[1][2][3] There even is a fan made translation of this add-on. allso there was another settlers 2 remake game: http://www.funatics.de/en/games/older-games/the-settlers-rise-of-cultures/ it is with more story and different kinds of military and ressources they need. also very good game. but it is only in german dub. ps sry for my bad english

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