Heritage of Kings: The Settlers

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  • Publisher: Ubisoft
  • Release Date: Feb 24, 2005
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  • Summary: Heritage of Kings: The Settlers is a world-building strategy game with fully rendered 3D visuals and unavoidably addictive gameplay. Players can dive into a detailed medieval world offering a unique mix of RTS and simulation gameplay. A fully functioning community can be created, newHeritage of Kings: The Settlers is a world-building strategy game with fully rendered 3D visuals and unavoidably addictive gameplay. Players can dive into a detailed medieval world offering a unique mix of RTS and simulation gameplay. A fully functioning community can be created, new advancements can be discovered, and enemy forces will be repelled! [Ubisoft]… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 29
  3. Negative: 5 out of 29
  1. GamingTrend
    84
    It is almost a management sim, like "Majesty" was...and it is almost a military sim, like "Starcraft" or "Age of Mythology." But it is unique in its design and only suffers from a few design flaws.
  2. Game Chronicles
    75
    A great game for an RTS newcomer, if there are any left out there. Also good for the city-builder game fan who wants to move into RTS type games at a leisurely pace.
  3. IGN
    65
    The gameplay, which I had believed would be changing fairly significantly, hasn't really changed a bit. Armies are organized a tad bit differently, but combat is still elementary school strategy for dummies.
  4. Jolt Online Gaming UK
    63
    The graphics are good, but every other feature is just scooped up from a number of other strategy games, and spread thinly.
  5. PC Format
    60
    It's not awful. Just empty. [March 2005, p.106]
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  6. Edge Magazine
    50
    While Heritage Of Kings has taken the series in a new direction without completely uprooting itself from the settlement-crafting past, it’s not been a successful evolution. Even the most lethargic and undemanding of gamers will quickly become bored of the gambolling wildlife and labouring peasants. [March 2005, p.87]
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  7. Computer Gaming World
    30
    Like David Hasselhoff's singing career, Settlers is popular in Germany and just sort of barely tolerated elsewhere. [June 2005, p.96]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 33
  3. Negative: 13 out of 33
  1. vare_babhta
    Dec 16, 2021
    10
    I had an amazing time playing it in single player very good memories 10/10.
  2. Darkraider39
    Nov 25, 2010
    9
    While this game has no real resemblance to current Settlers games or previous ones, If you view the game as its own and not as a part of aWhile this game has no real resemblance to current Settlers games or previous ones, If you view the game as its own and not as a part of a series, you will find it to be a fun, if a bit slow, RTS game. Even if you wish to build your city and not be attacked unless you want to be, theres a mission for it. I myself found this game very enjoyable.… Expand
  4. everchosenlily
    Dec 25, 2020
    8
    The Settlers: HoK is a good game.
    However, people seem to judge it by whether it is a good Settlers game- its gameplay does depart from its    The Settlers: HoK is a good game.
    However, people seem to judge it by whether it is a good Settlers game- its gameplay does depart from its predecessors quite a lot, being more akin to RTS games like Age of Empires or Warcraft 3- and not by its actual quality, which is by all accounts quite high.
    The biggest problem the game has is its complete lack of enemy AI (and thusly its lack of a Skirmish mode vs AI opponents), their actions in campaign maps being based on basic Lua scripts, but the premade maps that are there are great fun to play.
    The level builder is a welcome addition.    … Expand
  5. Peradon
    Feb 11, 2011
    6
    Not quite as bad as people make out, but not good enough to be considered a decent strategy game. Building up a city on the peaceful noNot quite as bad as people make out, but not good enough to be considered a decent strategy game. Building up a city on the peaceful no fighting map is quite fun, but to play the game properly the main thing you do is look for resources, not fight battles. Worth getting if all you like doing is building up cities, although there is an irritating lack of walls to build.… Expand
  6. JeffL.
    Mar 4, 2005
    3
    Horrible bugs, no ai, heck it wont even install on my other computer. An unpolished game like this shouldn't have been released.
  7. kanefriessner
    Jul 26, 2012
    2
    First of all, it's not Settlers. I don't know why were the developers replaced the Settlers gameplay with this, because it's not so good. TheFirst of all, it's not Settlers. I don't know why were the developers replaced the Settlers gameplay with this, because it's not so good. The campaign is boring. Very boring. The skirmish is worse. There is no AI. Yes, you read it good. There is no AI. I played on a skirmish map for nearly 1 and a half hour and then I discovered that the enemy is standing and doing nothing (like Patrick Star). Anyway the economic system is a failure too. The workers (I think they are slaves, because they don't need beds to sleep or food to eat, maybe they are aliens) are gathering resources too slow, terribly slow. This thing makes the game horribly boring. Maybe watching the wall for 2 hours is more exciting. To say something good, the graphics are pretty good. But it's not enough, because the gameplay is bad and the whole game is way too boring. A bad game, don't buy it!… Expand
  8. FGM
    Nov 1, 2019
    0
    It'a boring, slow, uninspired, graphics are mediocre, combat is tragic, units management is horrible, voice acting is like 12 year old makes aIt'a boring, slow, uninspired, graphics are mediocre, combat is tragic, units management is horrible, voice acting is like 12 year old makes a prank call, missions are long and boring, quests are super generic and the game overall is a puke and probably was a puke at the time it came out. It has nothing to do with Settlers, settlers is a kingdom management game, this is a bad taste RTS. I regret spending my quids on it in 2019.… Expand

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