Difficulty:

Very Hard

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Overrated"

But for right now, I am ashamed to see the 8.0 score! It seems so wrong! This 8.0 is a potential, not the actual product!

The strategies one has to use to win are ridiculous - like having a few settlements and let the King capture them since the Kings army has 150% attack against settlements...

or the "0 bell strategy"

the building buy system has a bug, since if the settlement consumes some tools, you STILL do not complete the building....

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Immigrants pricing is ridiculous...

I mean, a lot of things in this game are ridiculous...

I am disappointed of gamespot reviewers to give the buggy game such score!

At this point, without some major patches, the game is not worth at all!

Sometimes the King bugs out and wont become happy when you give him gold that he asks for and will remain annoyed with you although the only modifier is +1 Years of peace.

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European countries:
They seem more or less incapable of attacking your capitol, i left it unguarded on hardest setting and proceeded to wipe out their towns with a single unit. They had several soldiers in the vicinity of my town but did not attack.

Your settlements:
Bell production sometimes doesn't increase rebel sentiment properly.

Sometimes when a tile is improved and citizens are assigned to tasks automatically they will attempt to harvest something that cant be harvested. For instance if your pioneer clears a forest the citizen wont stop trying to get lumber in town from that square.

Units:
Pioneers will sometimes do stupid improvements when set to auto, like remove the last spot of forest near your town making sure you don't get any lumber unless ship it in - and for what? 2 sugar? bah!