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1701 A.D. Gold Edition pairs the award winning and critically acclaimed empire building/strategy title 1701 A.D. with the globally successful expansion pack 1701 A.D. The Sunken Dragon. Already featuring nearly limitless replay ability, 1701 A.D. Gold Edition expands the 1701 universe even further. The Sunken Dragon add on pack introduces a 30hour, story driven campaign mode and a world editor that lets gamers create and share brand new maps for single player or online play. In addition, 1701 A.D. fans will find new, fully developed computer A.I. profiles, new buildings, additional sub quests and a devastating new natural disaster.

Conclusions:
-You must have the CD in to play the game, forcing me to carry it around with my laptop.
-My computer doesn't handle the game well, which gives me lag. I have a 2006 Dell laptop Windows XP.
-This is an ECONOMIC game, which is fine, but I miss the military capability of Age of Empires series.
-Military activity doesn't occur until late in the game, and seems counterproductive. War kills your economy fast. Game likes peace.
-Overall: Challenging to balance the economies, and I enjoy this, but I miss the military action.

needed to upgrade old computer to handle graphics and memory but when it finally works the kids love it

I think the older version was better. I got bored with this one but only because its a little harder to do. I just didnt have the patience for it.

This is an enjoyable game, The only problem is that the expansion disk refusses to install.
And I absolutely know that the problem is not MY system. I am an independant proffessional software designer and have the best equiptment any "civilian" can buy . . . if software doesn't function on my machine it simply means one of two things: it is far too old and/or it is intrinsically flalled.Shame.

If you have played 1503 & 1602 than you know what to expect in 1701.
There isn't much difference in this game really. It's still pain to have your ships keep trade routes ( "A trade route is no longer..") flowing.
The people still complain & riot (One of your establishments is out off . . "), wanting everything.
You never know which side of the shop or building to place the road (but I will say that some don't need that, or sometimes [cows, wool] you don't).

Visually it's amazing. Tornadoes, storm & things like that. You can zoom in on the peeps, but it doesn't offer much help, expect to see them walk, or to look for animals.

You can customize the game to be super easy or hard (with the exception of the peeps needing everything & the constant warnings that something has halted). Having as few AI players as you like. You can select from 24 (I believe) maps, large or small islands etc.. Much like before, but you can make it harder for the computer to play.

Sandbox mode is nothing like map editor was. You can set up islands, nor make them. That's kinda lame. You can just plunk down houses, shops & buildings. I haven't played long in that, as it was annoying.

You can set up a profile, there are abounding preference settings & you can do it (during play) on the fly.

I haven't played the Sunken Dragon expansion as yet, so will update this when I do.

Overall, the game is cute as ever, but if you played the previous versions, not much else has changed, with the exception of updating a few things. If you haven't played 1503 or 1602, & you like being in control of your own colony, than I suggest buying it. If you're not a fan of needing to constantly babysit (And be told that you need to), stay far away from this. The "advice" is quite annoying.