Where the Civilization games have a variety of victory conditions, Colonization all builds to this revolt as the player's sole objective.
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So while you're focusing on growing your settlements, producing raw materials and goods, keeping the natives happy, and ensuring that you can protect what you have, you'll also need to begin generating rebel sentiment in the form of Liberty Bells and preparing for a full on war of independence against your home country.
You can stage protests from time to time but this also limits your economic potential, and angers the king. If you let him get away with it, eventually you'll be expending more and more effort for less and less gain. Once you start to generate a little profit, the King starts demanding a bigger and bigger cut of the action. So you'll need to assign some colonists as soldiers to protect your interests.īalancing the jobs of each settlement requires careful attention. You'll also find that other European powers are establishing their own colonies here, and you'll have to compete with them for scare resources and land. Not all the native tribes are friendly, and any of them might become hostile depending on your treatment of them and your attitude towards encroaching on their settlements. Of course, it's not just about the assembly line. Wagon trains and roads help you move goods around, so you can get the raw materials to the industries that need them, and the finished goods to your main trading cities. As your population grows, you'll send colonists out to establish new settlements and take advantage of nearby resources. Missions set up among the Natives can even encourage native workers to come live in your settlements. Specialized workers can be hired back in the Old World, or even attracted to the religious climate you create in the colonies. If your settlements are stocked with enough food, eventually you'll start to generate new colonists that can take on new jobs.
And since any imbalance in raw materials and finished goods can throw the system off, you'll need to stay on top of it all the time. This forces the player to make some tough decisions about their priorities. Since food is required by everyone but produced only by a few, you'll have to specialize each settlement around a mere handful of activities and jobs. The natives can even teach your colonists new jobs that will help them make the most out of the unique resources found in this land. Commodities like fur, sugar and tobacco can be gathered up and transformed into finished goods that you can ship back to Europe or trade with friendly natives. Food, wood and ore support the growth of the new settlement and its population. Once you make landfall, your colonists establish a new settlement and begin working to harvest raw materials from the land. Players begin as European explorers in a lone ship just off the coast of an unexplored (and unexploited) continent. Colonization essentially zooms in on one aspect of the Civilization experience and expands it into it's own game. And if you never played Colonization before, you'll find a compelling design that has held up extremely well over the last fifteen years.įrom such humble beginnings are empires made. If you were a fan of the original Colonization, you'll love the updated look and feel of this game.
And like Firaxis' remake of Sid Meier's classic Pirates! it manages to do what few remakes can: stylishly upgrading the overall presentation and interface without sacrificing the appeal of the original game's mechanics and character. The awkward title makes it seem like an expansion pack but Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization is actually a remake of one of our favorite and most fondly remembered strategy games of the 1990s.
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