The Settlers: Paths to a Kingdom is the latest game from the award-winning kingdom building strategy series. Created in 1993, The Settlers franchise is one of the best selling strategy brands with over 500,000 units sold in the US and over 7MM units worldwide LTD. In Paths to a Kingdom, the military, economic, and research systems are richer than ever.
This allows players to play and win the way they want. Beyond the game campaign, fully customizable pre-designed maps, downloadable expansions and anticipated player-generated content will guarantee wide-ranging experiences. The innovation does not stop at the game content.
The Settlers: Paths to a Kingdom will integrate the player’s social networks contacts on Facebook and Twitter. By allowing consumers to play the way they want and share their progress with their friends, this is truly the most accessible and innovative Settlers title to date.
If you're a fan of games like Sim City, Tropico, Caesar or even the earlier Settlers games, this game probably isn't one you want to miss. The changes from the earlier games and from other games in its genre are almost all for the better, and it's just generally a well put-together piece of entertainment - whether you prefer to build sand castles or kick them over.
Although I lost my Settlers virginity at a fairly old age, growing a functional colony is very, very addictive. The game brings back a load of childhood memories, which is definitely one of the game's strongest sides. There are some minor flaws though. The AI is passive and if you need to handle million things at once, sometimes the game gets quite confusing. [May 2010]
Compared to the recent titles of the series, Paths to a Kingdom is a real step forward, both in terms of bringing back gameplay elements specific to the Settlers series and introducing new options that allow for greater complexity: the Victory Points system, conquering sectors and increasing the productivity of your followers by filling their bellies.
Finally we’ve got ourselves a brand new Settlers adventure that is more than capable to let us forget the last two parts. Thank you Bruce and Blue Byte for the hours that we’ll be spending behind our PC’s for the coming months.
Original, varied and complex strategy game focuses on logistics. Multiplayer can be compared to playing a great board game. [Issue#190]
The setting is definitely terrific, and multiplayer is handled quite well, but the game just does not go that extra mile and offer something outside the graphics that sets it apart. It is a good game; it just does not go that extra step to becoming a great game.
Constant crashes and a really annoying anti-piracy system hinders The Settlers 7 from growing to the fabulous strategy game it should have been.
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