This game has rather unique gameplay. At the other hand you are rather limited with the activities. It`s a kind of sandbox you may do whatever you want. However up to the time when you will get 4 rang ship you will already try everything. In that cause, you will need to hunt trade encounters for experience in order to get 3 rang ship & continue the story, but it will last for long hours. This will broke all joy & interest to the game.
It`s a rather elaborate & saturated game, especially at that time. It was a good idea from devs to unite all episodes in one game & optimize it a little bit. In the game there are some original levels for old-school gamers. At the other point the story is well known & you will feel boring in your try to complete them all as gameplay is a jogtrot especially at the 3-4 episodes.
Rather unique gameplay, graphic looks great, nice story for a couple of days or a week.
This game looks nice even in 2018. Very interesting story, but rather short. Only a few activities beside the main story and they are rather crazy and unrealistic.
I don`t really understand why people think that it is awesome. At first, you are a colonist, what independent traders among the sea or ocean? NINA companies are hull of bugs. Each mission you play in same way. Only landscape differ and variety of resources. Anno is a great series of games but 1602 is terrible even for 1998. Try to compare with C&C games for example. You have war units but where is any strategy or tactics? Every time battles are the same.
