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- United Soft Media
- United Soft Media
- United Soft Media
- United Soft Media
Catan: Creator's Edition
Released On: Aug 14, 2013
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6.7
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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The game is very fun when it works right, but I did experience several crashes while playing the game, making it very hard to enjoy all the way through.
I also found some issues with the menus being in white text, making it hard to read at times.
Overall, it stays true to the board game, but still has a ways to go with it's interface and bugs. Wish there was an online as well, but as a single player experience it is still loads of fun.
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Bottom line: Very good singleplayer game, but lack of any decent multiplayer function limits its enjoyment.
Singleplayer: Good campaigns and scenarios, intelligent AI which can figure out what you're doing and adjust their strategy accordingly. Still, I didn't find it hard to defeat them even on the hard difficulty, even though I only have a few hours of total Catan game time (both virtually and physically). My main qualm with it is the excess of game messages which you have to click on to dismiss every time, which considerably slowed down already drawn-out Cities & Knights matches, when the computer would develop their Science area to lvl 4 to get resources whenever they did not get a resource on that dice roll, and every single time this happened I had to click OK on a pop-up message saying they could choose what resource they wished. The computer's taunts, comments and dialogues also sometimes appeared in pop-up form, further adding to the bother.
Multiplayer: The ONLY multiplayer available is hot-seat (multiple people on the same machine), and the only way it can work is if everyone else agrees to look away when it someone else's turn, or they would see that person's resources and Progress Cards. Since looking away is too much of a bother for most people, there is, in practice, no multiplayer whatsoever. For a board game, that's extremely disappointing and is the main reason for my lukewarm score.
Some things could be better explained, such as the statistics icons when a match is finished, which only show icons (with no tooltips) for each statistic and you're left to guess what they could mean.
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Summary Play the board game classic and its expansions "Seafarers" and "Cities & Knights" and create your own empire on Catan including individual maps and scenarios. Found settlements, build roads and prove your trading skills to become Lord of Catan. With the right strategy and a bit of luck, you'll defeat worthy competitors, such as the comb...
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Aug 14, 2013
Developer:
- United Soft Media
Publisher: United Soft Media
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