Why I buy this one ?
- Multiplayer mode allowing up to 4 gamers to play over a LAN or the Internet
- Unique empire-building simulation set in the 17th and 18th centuries
- Experience the golden age of exploration and trade; discover new islands
- Establish, expand, and maintain a flourishing medieval metropolis
- Interact with other players through trade, diplomacy, or military conflicts

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What our customer's say!

"1701 A.D. is the best!", This game is a good game if you like the 1700's. There is a ton of resources and things to do. This is a trading game more then a fighting and empire game. You are a trading company, of some kind. You have to deal with pirates, and other civilizations; like an Indian trading post, Chinese, and about a ton more. If you like games that you get to build a city, and manage almost everything, then you will love this game! It is worth ever cent! And you wont put it down, like me. I play it for hours on end, and wont stop until I got to get to bed, which would be around 12 or 1am. It has troops, ships, and you even can go around attacking other players, but if you do, you will be at war with them. And it is hard to get back into peace mode with them, I tried it many times!So if you like sim city games, and fighting games, along with trading games, then you will like this game! So buy it! And have fun!!!!

"Very fun and engrossing", I've been playing this game for 6 months (since Jan 2008), logging over 300 hours of game-play (which it tracks for you), and it is still my favorite game.

Before this game, I played SimCity 4 and CivCity: Rome. (BTW, I also tried SimCity Societies, but I don't even consider that a game, and so you will hear no more mention of it here).

The game is more fun than all other city-builder games for a few reasons:

1. It has the most interesting, exciting, varied, frenetic game-play (until you've got your city completely grown and your supply chains completely stabilized). Competing against the 3 AI players just makes everything more interesting, and you don't feel as anti-social as you might in other city-builders. Plus there are the elements of diplomacy, trade, managing your own building supplies, settling, research, and (optionally) war. There's just a lot more going on. And once you get through it all and have your city, there's actually something to do afterward. My favorite is to just keep building on my castle, making it more complex, and to just roam around the city gawking at all the cool graphics, and watching the mistril band and stuff. I also generally try to go for independence from the queen, and to finally annialiate the pirates, who annoy me throughout the game. You could also try to annihilate the foreign cultures and even annihilate your opponents and become the "last player standing". Any of those things is truly fun.

2. The game has good performance. Even in the later stages of the game, the interface is *always* responsive, never stalls, and although the game did slow down during the later stages, on my GeForce 9800GTX, there is really no slow down to speak of ever.

After playing this game, it's pretty hard to go back to SimCity 4 which, even 5 years after its release, and on the newest, highest-end hardware, sits and chugs for seconds-on-end whenever you do anything. I mean, If I really had no other responsiblities, I might spend some of my "fun-time" waiting for SimCity 4 to do its thing, but life is too short.

3. NO (significant) bugs. NO crashing. After 6 months of game play, the game has never crashed. Here's the worst that's ever happened:

a. Once, after my PC went to sleep during a game, I shut down the game and tried to load my city, and for some reason, all the housing was gone.
b. There is one particular free-trader assignment that cannot be fulfilled (he tells you to bring him wood, or something, but when you bring it to him, he doesn't seem to recognize it).

4. Graphics. If you have a high-end graphics card and want to get the most out of it, don't even bother with the other games I mentioned. While graphics are not an essential part of the game-play, they are above and beyond anything you'll find in the others. I played this for 5 months on a low-end PC with all the graphics options set to low, and always thought the gameplay was fun. I would zoom in sometimes and find it enjoyable to roam the city in detail for a few seconds. Now that I have my GeForce 9800GTX, and I have all the graphics settings set to max, the graphics are so amazing that it's almost too distracting.

I showed the game to my roommate after upgrading my card, and we both said 'wow' involuntarily. There is really no comparison to the other games.

That being said, without a high-end graphics card, the graphics are nice (especially the water), but the experience is definitely inferior.

5. I like the music. Though I suppose if you listen to any soundtrack for 5 months, it will start to grow on you.

Here are my major complaints about Anno 1701 A.D.:

1. No map-editor. If I understand correctly, even the U.K. version will only have an "world" editor with the same recycled islands.

2. Small following in the U.S. This is a constant source of disappointment. You don't have a same level activity in online forums as you might for other games. And news, about the map editor and other updates for example, takes a lot of persistence to find.


"Fun city-builder", It's like a mix of Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom and Age of Empires III, which is exactly what I was looking for. Very polished, and I would buy it again.

"Awesome game, didn't install", 1701 A.D. is an awesome game. Having played the board game on which it is loosely based (Settlers), I found the game play easy, strategy engaging and the graphics and sound both enjoyable and entertaining.

Sadly, I had to copy the entire disk to my drive, as the key code would not work on any of my three PCs, as long as the game was in the drive. I have found, in the past, that installing games from a directory on my drive would eliminate the software protection errors I have received in the past. Certain schema for copy protection have errors when attempting to install games using a number of CD, CD/RW, DVD, and DVD/RW drives. I suspected this was the case and copied the disk to my HD before installing it on my gamer PC system. Once installed, the game was a blast to play.

"Less than Fantastic", I felt the game was very misconceived in its description. I was expecting more of a Civilization type interface to it, especially in game play, i.e. turns. Overall gameplay is confusing and the manual was unhelpful. It took me forever to figure out how to expand my colony. Over the hours of game play while hoping for it to become fun, I found it instead slow and boring. But this is just my opinion. I also bought Europa Universalis with this game, and I found it much more enjoyable but perhaps that is just more my taste. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS GAME BUT THAT'S ME.

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"great image", I played this on my Mom's computer when visiting....use to have 1601 version...very addictin, great graphics

"Good Graphics - a change from standard", This game has good graphics and is a change from the standard civilizaiton type game. Not a turn based game so it takes focus and action without being able to think about each step forever. Worth the money for some wholesome entertainment.

"Better off playing 1503", I have played the other games in the series and doubtlessly have to conclude that this is the worst part.

The graphics have received a major overhaul, yet what the developers must have missed is that graphics were not the main theme in Anno.

The gameplay has been, well, "updated", too.

For example, if you have a wealthy colony, you may have to helplessly watch rats start gnawing away on your supply of marble, iron, and perfume.
At least I believe this should be an optional "feature" in the hard gameplay, but this was one of the points of why I returned the game.

Second, even if you have a healthy economy with maximum viable taxation, there is little money left to wage war if the need arise, as you are struggling to barely make any profit. Call me lame, but I enjoyed 1503 so much because you could edit a text file of how much your inhabitants had to pay for certain goods. Not so in this new version. This was a feature I really enjoyed, as it allowed me to adjust the rate of taxation to my personal needs/skills, as I like to just build a nice colony without worrying too much about the balance sheet.

Colonial goods. This is the first part of the series where you cannot assume total autonomy as you cannot produce all required goods yourself in the Merchant and Aristocrat civilization levels. You need colonial goods. Yes, if you fraternize with a foreign culture you can get them cheaply - but not even nearly enough of them. The free trader is happy to help out for exorbitant sums of money, making having aristocrats almost impracticable. Even worse, if your Merchants or Aristocrats don't have enough tobacco, perfume, or chocolate, they start revolting and burn down your city, even if their other needs are 100% satisfied. This is true for the colonial goods also, and especially problemsome as you may not be able to supply enough of them at times because their production/delivery is outside your jurisdiction.

Islands. Not only are the islands much smaller than in 1503 (even in continuos mode with "large" enabled), but there is also no way to choose what island to settle on because the computer chooses the island for you. Yes, no more sailing to your preferred island, so you better pray you get settled on the right one. Very, very annoying.
Also, the "fog-of-war" mode as some others have complained about is also very annoying.

Overall, this is the worst of the series and extremely disappointing.
I cannot give the game more than one star due to the - in my opinion - serious shortcomings that have extinguished the fun that made playing the other two parts worthwile.
Personally I believe you are better off purchasing a copy of 1602 or 1503.



"Another disappointing sequel", Having immensely enjoyed the other two games in this series, and having been overinundated with positive reviews for it, I made it a point to add it to my wishlist.

I was sorely disappointed.

While the graphics were updated nicel, and some new intriguing elements to gameplay were added, like the ability to actually interact with nomadic tribes, I have added this into my category of sorely disappointing sequels.

I've spent about 16 hours of gameplay, and I've unlocked almost all of the secrets the game has to offer using the exact same strategies as the previous two titles in the series. The replayability factor is low for me simply because of the fact that I had long since worn out the previous two titles.

While someone new to this series might be enchanted with the way this game is presented, anyone who has spent time on the previous two titles would be better off spending one's money elsewhere. Even at $24.95, I feel I overpayed.

"1701 A.D. ROCKS!!!", It took me awhile to get used to this game, as it differs a lot from 1602 A.D. but once I got the hang of the new interface, I realized how awesome this game really is. I really enjoy the graphics and the interaction with the computer players. I reccomend this game to anyone who loves 1602!