I was one of those who found 1602 well after it was released and loved it. What I had come to expect from 1503 was essentially a refinement of the good stuff and maybe less of the bad stuff. What I got was actually a step backwards. First of all I was disappointed in that your only option to play is through the canned scenarios. There are no open ended game choices and frankly that was the long lasting appeal for 1602. This is made worse by the lack of any kind of map/level editor. So instead of getting hundreds of hours of game play I was looking at **maybe** tens of hours. Even when you play the canned scenarios, your choices are limited. You are stuck with the assigned player color and there is very little in way of scenario options to change up a scenario in an attempt to make it fresh. The original included multiplayer from the very beginning, but they had long announced that 1503 would ** not ** include multiplayer at release but that a multiplayer add on would come soon thereafter. Well that ** never ** happened. On the other hand the expanded variety of natives, resources and structures were nice as were the detailed 3D graphics. However, if I just want to look at pictures I will go to a museum. Ultimately it was a complete and utter disappointment and I eventually wound up going back to playing 1602 (which is a very bad sign for any sequel).
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