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90A splendid game. The pathing issues do incur a degree of frustration, but never enough to drop kick your monitor into next door’s garden.
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85Features detailed gameplay, massive battles, and lots of historical depth.
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84Offers plenty of single-player campaigns, plus skirmish and multiplayer maps and a good history lesson to boot.
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82With loads of units on the screen, it really delivers on the spectacle of battle.
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Can at times be both fun and frustrating. The engine looks good and runs well, but the friendly fire problems really killed whatever enthusiasm I built up for the game.
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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.
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80I 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.
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80Unlike 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.
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Rich, detailed visuals and effects impart life and atmosphere to the New World theme, and gameplay demands both strategic planning and tactical skill.
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80While it isn't as intuitive as the best games in the genre, its underlying complexity is such that you could play for days and only begin to scratch the surface of what it has to offer.
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78The 42 campaign missions themselves use events like Pizarro's destruction of the Incas and the War of Independence as context, and are generally enjoyable, but they lack the attention to detail and narrative energy of the genre giants. [PC Gamer UK]
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A deep and involved strategy game, but there may be too much micromanagement and the pace may be too slow for some strategy gamers.
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66AC 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]
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The real challenge comes not from a smart enemy, but from a bad interface. [May 2003, p.90]
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What really sinks the game is an overly arcane interface that sacrifices accessibility for tactical depth. [June 2003, p.84]
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User score distribution:
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RobertS.10Just fascinating, gives u a feeling of supreme control.
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SamA.10
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ZackO.10Really fun and full of replay value and detail.