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The Settlers III Ultimate Collection Rating: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 best By Andrew S. Bub (7/24/2000)
The good: The full Settlers III game plus the add-ons at a nice low price.
The Settlers is oftentimes reminiscent of a cute, real-time version of Civilization or Impressions Games' Caesar series. All three installments have sold reasonably well in the United States, but they've been huge hits over in Europe. With The Settlers IV due in the fourth quarter of 2000, Blue Byte Software is bundling The Settlers III and all of its add-ons as a nice budget-priced collection. Although The Settlers has never been the deepest or most worthwhile of strategy series, it's hard to argue with this much value for this price. Unless, of course, you already own these products.
Settle Down, People
The Settlers formula is fairly simple. Choose a race: here we have the Romans, Egyptians, Asians, and Amazons. Then build your piece of territory into a powerful nation. Build guard towers to expand your borders into the wilderness and ruthlessly capture enemy towers to expand into enemy territory. Build mines to gain ore, smithies to smelt it, traders to manage funds, and barracks to train troops and farmers to farm. Each race has unique units and advantages and disadvantages to deal with. Essentially, each side consists of cute little people doing cute little stuff. The game is very repetitive but quite relaxing.
Whole Lot of Settling Going On For hints on this game, visit Tips and Cheats.
Andrew S. Bub wants it to be known that he was not settling when he accepted this review. He really wanted to do it. Agree or disagree with this review? Let us know.
Blue Byte Software, 512/343-1099 Price: $25 ![]()
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