The Settlers: Rise of an Empire
In The Settlers - Rise of an Empire, players build lively, bustling towns in a medieval world. Everything in this richly detailed, realistic world is visible and lovingly animated. Each Settler figure has his…
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Blue Byte, released 25 September 2007 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Settlers: Rise of an Empire is
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Blue Byte and released in 2007. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on RenderWare.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Your settlers have needs and lives of their own. If they have too little to eat, they will fall ill or feel threatened, and your town will come to a standstill. If they are well fed and happy, they will worship you. The seasons and extreme weather conditions will test your skills as a master builder. Have you enough food supplies to see your settlers through the harsh winter? Have you made sure that the woodcutters have not cut down all the trees in the forest, destroying the environment of the wild animals your hunters bring down for food? Other nations and settlements will try to loot your towns or even destroy them once they become rich and prosperous. Put your troops on your town walls…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate) and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Settlers: Rise of an Empire launched on 25 September 2007, within three weeks of Portal, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode Two. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Portal, Halo 3, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2: Episode Two.
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