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ParaWorld and ANNO 1701 at E3

Sunflowers announces line-up.

Sunflowers has announced its line-up for E3 this year; it plans to show off ANNO 1701 and ParaWorld.

ParaWorld's been to E3 before of course, and this time Sunflowers says it's nearly finished. The 3D real-time strategy game puts players in a prehistoric parallel world full of exotic tribes and dinosaurs. The full game's due out in August.

ANNO 1701, meanwhile, is the third in the ANNO series of strategy games, and should be out in October. Sunflowers' trumpeting is a bit unrelenting, but the pertinent facts are probably that it'll stick to the ANNO formula whilst focusing on exploration beyond the bounds of what happened in both the previous games.

Speaking of bounds, the graphics are "bound to set new standards for the genre" apparently, so watch out for those.