Anno: Create A New World Comments by Kieron Gillen

Hmmm, was kinda interested in this - sounds like a pass to me for now.

Bought this on the Zavvi sale yesterday, sounds a lot like the DS game which I loved

Love this game.

Agree on the combat though, particularly the ships - there's no option to select all of your units at once, which is a pain.

Keeping tabs on how much of a resource each citizen type requires isn't too hard - you just click on one of their houses and if the box is blank, the production of that resource is adequate; once it drops below surplus levels you see a bar indicating levels of stock. What would be nice is the option to just look at each citizen type in one screen without having to find and click on a building though. You're also told at what % efficiency each manufacturer building is working at, which informs you as to how many of a particular resource producer you need. It's all pretty simple once you've used your brain a bit.

Edit: This game has been out for weeks by the way, can you add the 'I own this game' link please!

I liked the DS version, but the combat was the weakest point so I am glad it sounds like there may be less of it. The rest of the niggles I think I can live with.

Those graphics make me want to play Civilization 4...

tried it. it has a kind of "my first RTS" feel to it. there's nothing here for seasoned players seeking a challenge, but could very well be the entry point for someone new to te genre.

be weary of the campaign tough: as soon as things begin to click in place and you start to grow fond of your settlements, they're taken away from you and you're sent someplace else to start all over again. *sighs*

They changed the PC version's cider to milk? Really? What about the ships of beggars? What have they morphed them into? Baskets of needy kittens?

@raion: Except it isn't an RTS, it's a civ building game, with a focus on economies. Think The Settlers - this is another Blue Byte game.

As for it being too easy - I found some of the levels in the story quite challenging in Easy mode, I dread to think what the later ones are like on Medium and Hard difficulties.

I agree however that it'd be nice if the campaign allowed you to continue with your current islands once all of the objectives for each chapter had been met. It's quite upsetting to go from a glorious Metropolis to a lone boat in the middle of the ocean. :)

Agent_Llama, I am well aware of that. it's just that I consider all that to be "real time strategy". just like in music: metal, punk, glam, whatever... it's all rock. ;)

@Saladin : Believe it or not.. having ANY alcohol in game will get you a mature rating with the esrb.

Alcohol isnt allowed in a game suitable for kiddywinks (despite kids movies having booze)

KG ends a review with a personal pronoun. Shocker!

@Saladin : Believe it or not.. having ANY alcohol in game will get you a mature rating with the esrb.

Well I don't believe it, because The PC version has an ESRB "Teen" rating.

(That's one of my gripes with the series in general: where's the crime, prisons, gallows, religious fanatics, and whatnot. It's all a bit too Disney and artificial. That you don't need to get all serious with things like that has been demonstrated by the Tropico games).

Could this game look any more ugly? My first strategy game, Defender of the Crown (8-bit) looked better than this!

The Anno PC games are charming and relatively brilliant... so I think this is quite a commendable effort at reaching a new audience on the Wii. My sister has been ploughing hours into it, and her previous RTS/management game experience amounted to telling her Sims to go and have a wee.

So I'd say this is probably an ideal game for novices and youngsters, if not for anyone who has cut their teeth on The Settlers (II) or Civ or what have you.

Original-looking low profile Wii game.

I predict 7/10.

/checks

No surprise there then.