Anno 1404 - History Edition
Relive the captivating gameplay of a true city-building classic with Anno® 1404 History Edition.
Anno 1404 - History Edition is a strategy, city builder and simulation game
developed by Ubisoft Mainz
and published by Ubisoft.
Released on June 25th 2020 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Polish and Russian.
It has received 2,860 reviews of which 2,326 were positive and 534 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: FX 4130 – 3.9 Ghz, I3-3220 – 3.3 Ghz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 660, R7 265
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 7.8 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
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IMPORTANT FOR NEW PLAYERS: When launching, choose "launch without add-on" to access the tutorial Scenarios. The default launch mode will include the Venice expansion, which has a different set of scenarios and assumes you've already played the game. Now for our regular scheduled programming review... Anno 1404 is my first entry into the popular Anno franchise. Coming out a whopping 15 years ago - this game is old enough to get a job and pay taxes. But that's not a problem here - it has aged very well and the graphics (I used max settings) were pleasant. I hadn't heard anything specific about the Anno series before playing, so I didn't know too much what to expect. It's a city-builder, right? Yes, it is! Except it bridges the gap towards an RTS. It sits solidly in-between [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/323190/Frostpunk/]Frostpunk and [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/644930/They_Are_Billions/]They Are Billions on the city-builder/RTS spectrum, unless you choose the easiest difficulty - in which case it's another calm city builder. Despite my mention of RTS, combat is rare and almost exclusively limited to the late game. It's impossible to attack your rivals early. The primary RTS aspect isn't combat or your micro of units, but rather the pressure of time . In Anno 1404 , the explorable world is a cluster of dense islands, and you're in a race to capture the resources from them before your rivals do. No single island will have access to everything: you must expand. You'll probably need 4 of them to get everything. That means building 4 different cities, in real time. Playing on easy difficulty is a very different experience. Without the same pressure to compete nor threat of attack, you're able to perfect your city as you want. There are numerous aesthetic buildings you can add that do nothing in-game except look pretty. The game has a photo mode and is very much designed to be a game to sit back and appreciate your creation. For me, being new to the series, this was a new approach to the city-builder genre. I appreciated it, and I'm excited to try the more recent titles, too.
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I played all ANNO games apart from 1800 (which I already have but never had the time to try). This one is by far the best building game I have ever played and I started playing it when it came out (God knows when). I also remember the expansion pack being released (yes the venetian port was later added on). I just love how the graphics are smooth and how the music reflects different parts and activities of the game. Everything is beautifully done, all tiny details taken care of (like the drunk guys walking around the town). This is one of the few games that you can play for a while then just watch your cities for another while and enjoy the atmosphere especially if you zoom in and use that free camera mode (I think F1 key ?). highly recommended even for young kids as this game teaches many aspects about crafting, math, logic and basic social skills.
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Perfect Setting for Anno I have a lot of childhood memories associated with Anno 1404 . I spent thousands of hours playing through the scenarios, endless games and playing through the campaign countless times because I didn't have anything else at that time. Playing it again brings back memories and I'm amazed at what a gem of the building genre it was back then and still is. The graphics and mechanics are still impressive today. Compared to all Anno games, the Middle Ages with the cultures of occident and orient is the perfect setting for Anno. The best thing about Anno is also the great community behind it, for example the Schönbauer Mod and I.A.A.M. In contrast to other Ubisoft teams, the development team at Ubisoft Mainz is always striving to work with the community and seeks out a wide variety of opinions from players. Anno is the only remaining game from Ubisoft where there is still hope for the future. Everything else has been disrespectfully flushed down the toilet.
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The gameplay and the game is okay. Pretty much everyone knows what it is. The most annoying part is that mandatory Ubisoft launcher.
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You can't really go wrong with any Anno game, but this is maybe the best one to start with. I love action. I like my games with a lot of blowing sh*t up and killing dudes. My favorite genres are first-person-shooters (because there's a lot of killing dudes), stealth games (because there is a lot of killing dudes sneakily and silently) and realtime-strategy games (because you build huge bases and armies to blow sh*t up and kill dudes). If there was one genre that I thought I couldn't like even if my life depended on it, it was the economic city-building simulation genre, the genre that is well known for one particular franchise: ANNO. I was unable to comprehend how buildung houses and streets for dozens of hours without any real purpose could be remotely fun. Until I tried it myself. When I started with Anno 1602 a couple of years ago, the first few hours where rough, because it is indeed somewhat tricky to see through all the rather complex building- and economic mechanics (especially in Anno 1503, which does things wildly different than all other classic Anno games in that regard). But once I got the hang of it, it turned out to be addictive. Since then I sunk literally hundreds of hours into Anno 1602, Anno 1503, Anno 1701 and lately Anno 1404. Anno 1404's core gameplay isn't different from the preceeding Anno games at all: You just build the necessary infrastructure, carefully balance out your taxes, ressources and production of goods, establish political and trading relationships with other players and very rarely carry out land- or sea battles, all with the sole purpose of developing a handful of small huts, farms and pigsties into a sprawling glorious metropolis. What's so particularly good about Anno 1404 is how polished and well-developed everything is. Even though the older Anno games are perfectly playable and great fun still today (yes, even Anno 1602), Anno 1404 is the one that comes very close to being just perfect. Everything is significantly more beginner-friendly, from the controls and functions all down to the combat system (which they never got right in the previous games even though it is clearly not the focus in Anno). Of all the Anno games I've played so far, this is the one that is the most comfortable to play and therefore especially recommendable for Anno beginners who want to get into the series. On top, just like the previous Anno games before it, Anno 1404 has a well-designed and entertaining singleplayer campaign that acts as a sort of 20 hours long tutorial and prepares you for the more challenging scenarios or the endless game, where you can just build your city as big as the map allows it, with no specific goals. Anno in general lets you play it like you want to. If you are looking for a slightly more stressful and challenging experience, there are the scenarios and the three different difficulty settings of the campaign. Or you can just lay back in the endless game and build your city completely at your own pace, without any pressure or aggressive competitors, but with basically limitless ressources. It's a near perfect and very rewarding game to just completely loose yourself in for a few hours. I could play the game for a thousand years more and still wouldn't find a single tiny thing here to complain about. No matter which Anno game you play first, everyone of them will seem overly complex and simply overwhelming and very hard to get into at the start and Anno 1404 is no exception, but once everything clicks and you finally understand how easy in principle it all is, Anno will literally glue you to your screen. Even if you are more like me (blow sh*t up, kill dudes), I highly recommend trying any of the Anno games (at least from the ones I've played so far). Chances are you'll be surprised how addicting, fun, relaxing, rewarding and well-made a game with barely any sh*t to blow up and dudes to kill can be. _________________________________________________________________________________ ANNO 1404 (History Edition including the "Venice"-AddOn) Release: Q2 2009 Genre: Simulation ( ) 0/8 Simply one of the worst games ever made. Don't waste any money on this. ( ) 1/8 Bad. Seriously flawed with barely any redeeming qualities. Worth a couple of Cents at best, if at all. ( ) 2/8 Sub-par. Only for hardcore-fans of respective genre / series. Don't pay more than 5 bucks. ( ) 3/8 Meh-diocre. It‘s okay. Don't pay more than 10 bucks. ( ) 4/8 Decent, but not for everybody. Don't pay more than 15 bucks. ( ) 5/8 Good game, Must-play for genre- / series-fans. Worth 20 to 25 bucks max, if you are not a fan. ( ) 6/8 Great game, universal recommendation. 30 bucks would be a steal for this. (X) 7/8 Outstanding game, a milestone of it‘s respective genre. Definitely worth its full prize. ( ) 8/8 Simply one of the best games ever made. Get this, the prize doesn't matter.
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