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American Conquest
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
76
80% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
20% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
76
80% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
20% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A splendid game. The pathing issues do incur a degree of frustration, but never enough to drop kick your monitor into next door’s garden.
Offers plenty of single-player campaigns, plus skirmish and multiplayer maps and a good history lesson to boot.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 User Ratings
7.5
73% Positive
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
11% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
16% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 User Ratings
7.5
73% Positive
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
11% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
16% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
This is my favorite game ever. It sums up my entire childhood in a perfect game. You can move units as a single person, or hire flagbearers and drummers, etc. and make them into a squad of (up to) 196 troops. With artillery, ships, cavalry, buildings, outposts, like 16 different races all with vastly different playstyles, the sense of scale can be enormous or very tiny depending on the size skirmishes you get yourself into, and the ease of precision is perfect. 10/10 Perfect game
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Unlike many RTS games where resource management can get tedious, or combat is a generic form of minutia, American Conquest does RTS right by deftly combining resource management with warfare.
Some may say that the 2D structure is dated and that the move to 3D is well overdue, however American Conquest like Cossacks does such a fine job with the detail of the environments and the armies, a change here could prove disastrous.
I loved the approach they took in setting this game up. I see this as a fresh genre that I haven’t seen successfully implemented until now.
AC is a first-class resource pig, despite its 2D origins. With no way to adjust detail, you need a mighty rig to runit when the screen is filled with warring units. [Apr 2003, p.104]
What really sinks the game is an overly arcane interface that sacrifices accessibility for tactical depth. [June 2003, p.84]
I was so very glad to see this game rated so highly, though surprised as well, because the learning curve is as steep as any game I can remember picking up for a first play since probably Civ 2 I would say. This is NOT Starcraft 2, it is not designed to be so intuitive that you can enact battles with a couple of group selections and A-clicks to stomp your opponent. This is a more deliberate, detailed, and ultimately, realistic and extremely convincing depiction of war on a large tactical scale. In this case, the wars ranged from Spanish conquests to American Indian Insurrections to the Revolutionary War; there's an incredible variety of campaigns available, it is endlessly replayable, and as though tons of high quality content weren't enough, each campaign comes complete with one of the most accurate and interesting historical prologues I could imagine for a historical wargame.
Like historical wargaming? This is for you. Like RTS games and usually use at least a few keyboard hotkeys when playing one? This is most probably for you. Hated how slow Starcraft battles took to develop? This is most definitely not for you.
This is one of the very few games I gave a '10' to simply because there's NOTHING wrong with it, it innovates in the genre, delivers what it promises plus a ton more, and does so beautifully.
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One of the best RTS games out there. Once you get the hang of the gameplay, you'll be pwning everything in sight. A few things that are absolutely fricking amazing is the fact you can play while editing a scenario, and the fact you can have THOUSANDS of troops on the battlefield at one time. Battles between 2000 British and Americans, attempting to reenact a Revolutionary War battle? Yes please.
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Great game indeed, one of the best RTS available, the game let you to build anywhere you want recruit hundred of troops, for squads of 120 men each with different choices of formation and stances, graphics are beautiful and animations are detailed, very challenging indeed, sometimes it got tedious however. If you like RTS genre this game for you and must have, it is better than Cossacks games in every aspects, now it is availbe on steam for very cheap price but you will have long hours playing it especially in the skirmish mode.
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It's too bad this game is so obscure. I'd love to see another. Great strategy, thousands of troops at a time, realistic environments and fortification technques (but why aren't there walls? it really had potential there). I just wish the learning curve wasn't so steep and that the buildings had purpose in place of novelty as they sometimes do.
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Summary Did you ever fight a battle with 16,000 infantry, cavalry and artillery units, supported by warship fire - at once? Imagine dozens of these conflicts, fought in thrilling campaigns throughout the fascinating American history ? and you got American Conquest. The game spans the period from 1492 (Columbus's discovery of America) up to 1813 ...
Rated T
for Teen
