Looks Great an Plays Great When You Can Play it.
User Rating: 7 | The Settlers: Rise of an Empire PC
I use to be a huge Settlers fan when I was a kid. I played The Settlers: Fourth Edition till my eyes hurt every night. I was excited to hear about a new Settlers coming out but I wasn't in any hurry to go and get it. I picked it up yesterday at Game Stop for $29.99 which wasn't much for me. I took it home, installed it, then downloaded the patches for it all the way to 1.7. I figured that they had fixed most bugs but I was wrong. From time to time, I'll be playing the campaign then the game will freeze. I can't Alt-Tab out or Ctrl-Alt-Delete either. Then my video card stops displaying followed my skipping music then a blue screen showing my windows dumping memory back onto the hard disk. MY computer restarts and I come back to my desktop. Now after 7 patches, I would expect then to have fix this serious problem. I have to save every 5 min. just so I don't loose a lot of progress.
As far as game play goes its really good. This are highly detailed and look wonderful. It is easy to learn and control the game. I'd just wish that they would fix the problems.
My PC is:
M2N ASUS MOBO
AMD 64 X2 5600+ 2.8 Ghz Dual Core
2 Gigs RAM
nVidia 7600 GT 256 MB DDR3
Running Windows Vista
