Anno 1701: The Sunken Dragon (2008) PC
Add-on / Strategy (Real-time) / 3D | English | 4.40 GB

Thoughtful town-planning, skilful trade and aggressive sea campaigns - three whales on which popular series Anno keeps. Ill-wishers reproached it with boreness and an overabundance of micromanagement, but developers have well worked above Anno 1701, having offered entertaining adventures at far colonies of an epoch of New time. The army of admirers was glad is dazzling to the beautiful descendant though has not managed and the indignant performances. Experienced colonizers have started missing on a coherent subject line, and аддон The Sunken Dragon is called to fill an annoying blank.

One thousand islands

So, the beginning of XVIII century, and the same red-haired queen of a certain European state sends all to novel tropical edges of brave trailblazers. One of them becomes the protagonist of a narration. In new campaign from 11 episodes the history is valiantly twirled around of searches of mysterious artefacts, and long travel are stuffed by weight of events. To open secrets there is no need, enough to notice what to move ahead on a thorny way really interestingly. The rough imagination of scripwriters is capable to surprise even worldly-wise strategists. And one more important detail at once is evident: authors obviously prefer skilled subjugators of the seas.

Already in the first mission we receive some the basic assignments and a handful minor. Without excellent knowledge of local specificity it will be hard. In small settlement it is necessary to adjust financial well-being urgently? Ruthlessly we take down superfluous working constructions and we provide an increase in population. There are no tools? It is possible to buy them from the neighbour under the extortionate price, but to send a research vessel on the south and порыскать in fragments of the lost ships is easier. To overcome storming ocean, it is necessary to get oil and зажечь a beacon for what the third level of development and a lot of administrative fuss is required? Simple dock more cheaply and more effectively: the damaged transport will repair, and it will continue плаванье.

The second task straight off throws us in разросшийся city. The fire-fighting crew should extinguish quickly aristocratic private residences and the senate, and an army - to drive impudent robbers … The Sunken Dragon assumes a close acquaintance with a serial and dryishly accepts beginners. Casually come here юнга it is doomed to flounder in economic and diplomatic problems, penetrating in the scanty training module and plunging in the thick encyclopedia. Besides the interface and has not got hold of detailed statistics.

East ornament

The Asian colour (the graceful architecture, a blossoming Oriental cherry …) has noticeably decorated action. Far East governors are artful, clever and at times devilishly aggressive. The same qualities allocate also effective characters whom in TSD it was added already four; natural cataclysms and accessible constructions too became hardly more. Pleasure by a show is guaranteed: high detailed elaboration and rare attention to trifles have removed in аддон without reductions.

The vessels shabby in storm with разодранными sails look is pitiable. But the happy townspeople resort on the area, expressing delights and worship (if business are absolutely good, that emotional fall on knees before a gold statue of " the favourite leader »). The laborious approach is felt in all. For example, having constructed two houses and having divided their road, the amazed town governor will find out, that enterprising citizens have pulled a cord between dwellings and … dry on it the washed linen. As before, here it is possible to observe long for bright and colourful сценками, but the essence has remained former.

Despite of fascinating sea romanticism, The Sunken Dragon - the town-planning simulator, whose rules not too miss with standard. Moreover, it is more primitive, than, for example, Caesar 4 or CivCity: Rome. All industry is stuffed on distant закуткам in capital and in adjacent territories - huts for hard workers near the extracting and processing enterprises here are not necessary. A following step - the thought over organization of transport streams for uninterrupted internal deliveries and profitable trade. Having debugged a life, it is possible to exasperate neighboring governors. Mean diversions with the subsequent scale gains (alas, toy fights and-ля « a wall on a wall » still do not allow to miss to the military genius and besides on hurrah punch a huge hole in the budget) will descend both bribes with gifts, and.

Orientation to the advanced veterans is visible and in the remained two modes. In « Continuous play » it is easy to create game to the taste, having chosen variants from severe struggle for a survival before peace construction just for the hell of it. However, fans of a freebie were deprived with "sandboxes", and поделом: building with infinite resources is too stupid and senseless. Under the button « Custom content » спрятан the complete set of the user scripts behind which send on a special site. However, at desire it is easy to consult alone, having cooked up a card in the brand new editor.

Those who well knows the previous part, familiar persons everywhere meet. Impudent « free trader » on a regular basis looks on a visit with the exotic goods on несусветным to the prices, pirate Ramires is always ready to dispell governor's boredom, whimsical владычица from time to time strives to devastate treasury … It is all the same old kind world opened for artful intrigues and battles for authority.
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Anno 1701: The Sunken Dragon gives series the finished kind: long-awaited campaign is extensive and fascinating, the built in editor represents itself as the useful additive … On the other hand, they would much more logically be looked in the original, instead of in the additional edition at additional expense.