American Conquest
by CDV Software
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Video Game Reviews of American Conquest
Customer Review: Good cool Game But............ Need for Major Improvement!
Summary: 4 Stars
Ac Is 1 of the best games ive ever Played It has good Graphics. takes place in America,And preety Accruate in Historical Info.Dispite all of these cool and good things there is still some Major Improvement
1. Ships move to Slow
2. Cheap, Annoying Music
3. Not enough Nations
4. U Need a fast Comp 2 play if u dont have 1 then The Game Sux
5. No Senario Editor
6. Finnaly It is 2 hard 2 capture Cities and poor Statuse for Units
Customer Review: Conquest is the BEST
Summary: 5 Stars
If your looking for a great, no awsome Colonial Strategy game this is the on to buy.Customer Review: Not much an improvement over Cossacks.
Summary: 3 Stars
GSC's "American Conquest's" greatest strength is it's unique historical setting- not many games allow a player to refight the French and Indian War! I basically bought this game strictly because I love that period of history. However, I was a little sceptical about how AC would play because I really didn't care for GSC's first RTS game, "Cossacks," which I thought had terrific potential but it ended up being just a pretty blase "Age of Empires" clone. I was hoping that AC would get the benefit for all the improvements that GSC had developed for "Cossacks" engine plus a good number of new features.Unfortunately, that did not turn out to be true. AC pretty much plays the alot like "Cossacks"- standard RTS fare. Like "Cossacks," AC has some serious gameplay issues. The Native American tribes are extremely weak. Animals attack only your units. (Buffalo, deer, and bears literally charging towards hundreds of heavily armed men is one of the more bizarre elements of the game.) Canoes can sink a frigate? There are some improvements, like being able to garrison buildings, but overall any "Cossacks" player will be able to jump into this one without a problem.
However, if you're a "Cossacks" fan then you're probably going to like AC. It's more polished than "Cossacks." The single player scenarios are better designed. And the graphics for your soldiers are quite nice: the first few times you watch a 180 redcoats let loose a volley is pretty cool. Also the animated deaths are better done than they were in "Cossacks."
This is pretty much a no frills game. The scenarios are introduced with lengthy (and not particularly accurate) historical information. If you leave the dull, repetitive music on you will be able to hear a bored voice actor narrate the historical intro. The campaigns are linked just by their subject material, but there is no relation between scenarios. Finally, there is NO scenario editor! There's a map editor, but it's useless without a scenario editor. So that means you're stuck with some Russian guy's idea of what the French and Indian War was about. There is an addon coming to give the player more nations (you can recreate Germany's role in the conquest of America with it???) and scenarios, but I've had enough of AC. No mas!!
Customer Review: My Favoriote Game
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow. This game is incredible. I think this game is better than Age of Empires 1 and 2. The strategy and skills this game requires makes it a fun experience. You must get this game. You must get this game!Customer Review: Another Ordinary RTS!
Summary: 3 Stars
American Conquest is just another ordinary RTS title, adding to theseveral other RTS games available in the PC gaming library.
What makes this game distinct from the others is that its based in
North America..well thats good because everyone is freaked out by playing
in Medieval Europe.
The Graphics are well done, you can actually see smoke coming out of rifles
and cannon's blasting away concrete.However there is no Zoom Option
available so youre stuck with the default view. Its not bad though,
however if you have a slow computer then the peroformance will be
greatly affected. Soldiers walk quite fast as if theyre each wearing
a pair of roller blades. It seemed to give me an unrealistic effect.
Soldiers also walk through trees(that finally puts an end to realism!)
Gameplay is impressive. In a total there are 8 campaingns spanning 42
missions which will keep you entertained for quite a while. Even while
playing on normal the game seemed to be awfully difficult. For a greater
challenge you have "Hard,Very Hard and Impossible".
Sound is poor. Cheap music in the background really irritates,luckily
it can be turned off. Sounds during gameplay are quite good, like marching,
gun shots etc.
Overall, try to skip this one. Its just not worth the price tag. Nor
the effort and Time youll spend playing it.Feast your eyes on something
else!