American Conquest (PC)

Manufacturer: CDV Software GmbH Part number: 00006

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American Conquest (PC)

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Reviewed by: Craig Beers
Reviewed on: 02/05/2003
Updated on:08/13/2003
Released on: 02/05/2003

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You may be familiar with the Cossacks games from developer GSC Gameworld--they're real-time strategy games reminiscent of the Age of Empires series but set in 17th- and 18th-century Europe, featuring large battles with thousands of individual soldiers. Take a glance at American Conquest, and you may think that it's just the same as Cossacks, since it uses a similar game engine. Yet though American Conquest does emphasize large-scale strategic combat and formations like Cossacks does, the new game takes place in the New World, and it also features numerous gameplay improvements and general enhancements that make the game much more enjoyable to play than Cossacks. It's also a great real-time strategy game in its own right.

You'll take part in Columbus' expeditions, the Conquistadors' conquest of the continent, The French and Indian War, Tecumseh's uprising, and the American Revolution.

American Conquest takes place during the European colonization of North America between the 15th and 18th centuries. The single-player portion of the game contains numerous campaigns and scenarios that follow important events during this time span. You'll take part in Columbus' expeditions, the Conquistadors' conquest of the continent, The French and Indian War, Tecumseh's uprising, and the American Revolution. Often, you'll play on both sides of a conflict; for instance, in one campaign, you'll play as the British, and you must quell the American colonial rebellion, while in the following campaign, you'll play as the colonists and fight against the British.

Just like Cossacks, American Conquest has lots of playable factions. Besides the aforementioned British and American colonists (who are anachronistically referred to as the "USA" in the game), you'll also get to play as Spain, France, and many different Native American tribes, such as the Iroquois, Delaware, Sioux, Pueblo, Mayan, Aztec, Incan, and Huron nations. With so many Native American factions, you may be surprised to find that you can control them in only one campaign; while this may seem disappointing, it's unfortunately historically accurate, since the Native Americans didn't see too many victories during that time period.

The historical aspect of the game is done well. Every mission begins with a narrated history lesson that is interesting and informative, and thankfully brief. While you may tend to skip over such narratives in other games to get right to the action, you might sit through and listen to them for their historical value. However, these briefings don't always give you a good idea of your goals in the next mission. For instance, you may be given the vague-sounding task of "mining coal," but you won't be explicitly told that you need to gather 3000 units of coal to complete the mission. While this vagueness generally won't prevent you from finishing a mission, you'll sometimes complete a mission without realizing that you've reached the goal.

The game has a number of unusual and interesting missions.

American Conquest has a good variety of different mission types. The game has standard real-time strategy mission goals, such as building a base and attacking, defending your base for a certain amount of time, and going through a mission with a limited number of troops. But the game also has a number of unusual and interesting mission types. In one of the Conquistador campaigns, you only have military units, and you must gather gold, which you can do by capturing Aztec dwellings--you can then use your gold to purchase new military units and supplies. In the Tecumseh campaign, you'll find yourself being hunted by the Americans, but since you're allied with the British, your goal is to constantly deliver food to your allies so that they can build up troops to protect you. Fortunately, most missions won't take longer than an hour to complete on the game's normal difficulty level, so they generally don't get boring.

Each of the game's nations has unique units and buildings. As you might expect, the European nations are technologically superior to the Native American tribes. In the 17th-century campaigns, you command pikemen and soldiers with primitive guns. In 18th-century campaigns, European nations have more advanced guns and mounted dragoons at their disposal. They can also use artillery to destroy enemy structures and generally decimate soldier formations. The Native American nations seem like they would stand no chance against the Europeans, but they do have strength in numbers. They can produce troops such as tomahawk throwers, pikemen, archers, and mounted troops, and even their peasant units can be competent fighters in a pinch. The Native American tribes can produce troops much more quickly than their European adversaries.

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Manufacturer: CDV Software GmbH
Part number: 00006

Product Basic Spec
Platform PC
ESRB rating Teen - Violence
Genre Strategy
Elements Real-Time Strategy
Context Historic
Play time mode Real-Time
Connectivity Online, Local Area Network
Difficulty Medium
Stability Stable
Learning curve About a half hour
Online modes Competitive, Team Oriented
Minimum
CPU PII 450
DVDROM 0
Disk 1300
RAM 64 MB
VRAM 1

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CPU PIII 1GHz
DVDROM 0
RAM 256
Game
Developer GSC Game World
ESRB Teen
ESRB descriptors Violence
Max number of players 8
Min number of players 1
Release date 8/15/2004

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