After many years Anno leaves behind the Age of the Great Discoveries and brings a new time with new challenges.

User Rating: 9 | Anno 2070 PC
By CornelMosneag | Review Date:
Seasoned players might have frowned when they found out that the game would leave behind swords and cannons, I was disappointed myself, but after 20 minutes of play I realized I had no reason to doubt the game. The fact is that the same setting made Anno almost monotonous, new stories and new visuals on the same background could not be enough to satisfy players who played every Anno since 1602. Therefore it was unavoidable for the game to set on a voyage in time.

Anno has long since established itself as a great series of games. During this period the game improved with the times, and sometimes even ahead of times. Lush environments, colorful worlds, an almost insane attention to details pushed all of the Anno games on the top spots. Moreover the developers spent a lot of time working on the story and the outcome was beyond any doubt amazing.
Anno 2070 makes no exception. Not only is it an amazing game to look at, but it's also an very fun game to play with a story line that coils around you and keeps you playing for hours.
Although all games so far took place in the Age of Great Discoveries, Anno 2070 brings forward a new Age, from the past directly into the future where you have to tackle old human behaviors, classic environmental issues and new threats specific to an age of computers. Apart from all the other games Anno now permits you to choose sides. You can either be an Environmentalist or a Tycoon, depending on how you feel about the Planet. Eco friendly solutions often cost more and offer reduced benefits, but clean air and fertile land has its own benefits, your people feel good and agriculture thrives. Alongside these options you have a 3rd type of social-economic structure... the Researchers, they inhabit different buildings, have different needs, and help you develop technologies and... even settle the sea floor. The underwater world looks even better than the surface.
The story is good, it could be improved a lot but it is satisfying. The huge number of side-quests keep you active during the whole assignment.
Although Anno still has unfixed issues, issues that go way back, it is an amazingly fun and educative game. It gives you a sense of the world and how the future can look, as few games ever did.

I really hope many players will consider this change of times a success and i can't wait to see an Anno game that takes place during ancient times... the Greek "empire" can be a great setting for the next game.

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