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Anno 1800 – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
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This typical misstep aside, Anno 1800 is an otherwise excellent history-themed simulator that excels at drawing players into its satisfying gameplay loop and keeping them there.
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Rarely before has it been so hard for me in my game tester career, not to award a 90s rating.
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Anno 1800 manages to find its place back between the heavyweights of the genre by getting back to its roots and expanding on the successful formula that made the previous games great. The gameplay is deep, complex, and at the same time simple enough for the newcomers to jump in, and its definitely one of the best entries in the Anno series, if not the best.
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Quotation forthcoming.
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Big, busy and pretty, you can be confident of a good management game that doesn’t take itself too seriously, so long as they can get past some certain disheartening design choices.
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It’s a really unique experience. A large part of the game is focused on exploration and it is a true ode to orientalism. A gaming pleasure combined with the visual and sound beauty. Probably the best Anno episode in the history of the series.
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A vibrant snapshot of the Victorian era that’s bustling with character, but doesn’t explore the intriguing, seismic politics of the period.
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Yes, the story mode is disappointing and the the combat system is not the most innovative, but I don’t care. The most important part of theYes, the story mode is disappointing and the the combat system is not the most innovative, but I don’t care. The most important part of the game is the sandbox mode and that is definitely the best of the series. It is also great that there is a multiplayer again.… Expand
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A truly fantastic city-builder and resource management game. Rich in detail and variety. Graphically stunning. Make sure your PC meets theA truly fantastic city-builder and resource management game. Rich in detail and variety. Graphically stunning. Make sure your PC meets the recommended requirements. Certainly the best in the series. Game is updated regularly.… Expand
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Best Anno game since 1404, it has got the same addiction factor, better graphics and sound. The fact you have to balance your workforce out toBest Anno game since 1404, it has got the same addiction factor, better graphics and sound. The fact you have to balance your workforce out to make sure all your carefully set up production chains don’t stumble and fall, is a small but smart design decision. … Expand
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One of the best city builder I have played. Solid and deep gameplay. Nothing much to add it is just a very good game. If you like this genreOne of the best city builder I have played. Solid and deep gameplay. Nothing much to add it is just a very good game. If you like this genre you must play it.… Expand
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Anno 1800 just got the right «Anno-Feel» to it, it takes many of the best aspects from Anno 1404 and translates it into the new setting, withAnno 1800 just got the right «Anno-Feel» to it, it takes many of the best aspects from Anno 1404 and translates it into the new setting, with great additions. For example I do enjoy the change of having to manage my workforce now instead of just building my production without worrying if I have enough workers. Slowly building up your small city into a huge empire just makes fun in this game. Beautiful looking with many details and also a great soundtrack. Besides many positive aspects the game lacks in the campaign, which is quite generic and they surely could have done better, also the battle system — now without landbattles as in Anno 1404 — might not be everyones taste. Taking those 2 main things in consideration with the technical issues some player seem to have it is a 8, if they fix the technical problems it could be an 8,5-9. In my opinion Anno 1800 takes over the title from Anno 1404 of beeing the best in the whole Anno Series. Edit: What might be worth noting for some ppl that there are no additional scenarios like in previous Anno parts… Expand
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Maybe I’m just not that good, but this game has a learning curve that drains a lot of time when you don’t get a concept. It’s just not funMaybe I’m just not that good, but this game has a learning curve that drains a lot of time when you don’t get a concept. It’s just not fun when it feels like you’ve wasted many hours repeatedly. I’m sure if you can get past that and enjoy RTS like it you’d enjoy it.… Expand
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Rejected from Steam. Rejected from Quality.
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Our Verdict
Despite an annoying story mode, Anno 1800 is the biggest and best entry in the series to date.
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What is it? Expansive city-builder themed around the industrial revolution.
Expect to pay $60/£50
Developer Blue Byte
Publisher Ubisoft
Reviewed On Nvidia GTX Titan, Intel core i5-3570K 3.40 GHZ, 16 GB RAM,
Multiplayer Yes
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Anno 1800 belongs to a select group of games that I like to refer to as “blink and it’s 2 am” games. For example, you might sit down in an evening with the plan of setting up your first steel mill. Then you blink and it’s 2 am and you’ve somehow founded a colony in the New World. Alternatively, perhaps you set the goal of reaching the next population milestone to unlock a new building. Then you do that, and the building you unlock is a zoo for which you can build individual enclosures to fill with several dozen type of animals.
Blink.
This is comfortably the most engrossing city-builder I’ve played since Cities: Skylines, one that combines an intriguing theme with some enjoyably complex production chains and trading mechanics. It also has a wealth of buildings to construct and resources to produce, letting you construct some truly enormous urban sprawls.
Anno 1800 puts you in the hobnailed boots of an up-and-coming business magnate in the burning heart of the industrial revolution. There are three ways to play, Campaign, Sandbox, and Multiplayer. Structurally, they’re all basically the same—the campaign is itself a gigantic sandbox that happens to feature a chain of missions to follow.
Whichever way you choose to play, you start out in charge of a Western-European island with nothing but a trading post to your name. Your first goal is to build a simple farming village, which acts as the foundation for your city. From here, your objective is to grow a bustling metropolis that will stretch its tendrils to the horizon and beyond.
Workers are considerably more particular in their needs and wants, going so far as to demand soap, the fops.
In its early stages, Anno 1800 is a straight-up city-builder. Progress is Anno is predicated upon two things—population growth and meeting the needs and wants of your citizens.. Each “class” of person has a different set of requirements that you need to meet. Farmers, for example, simply require clothes and fish to subsist. But to make them happy, you need to ply them with alcohol. You’ll need acres of potato fields that can be distilled into schnapps, while also ensuring all farmsteads are within staggering distance of a pub.
The better you meet those needs, the more people will fill the houses of your village. Once a farmhouse reaches its maximum population, it can then be upgraded to house the next class of citizen—workers. This unlocks the next evolutionary stage of your settlement, letting you construct more advanced buildings like brickworks and breweries. However, workers are considerably more particular in their needs and wants, going so far as to demand soap, the fops.
At the same time, your production lines become increasingly convoluted. Creating wood to build farmhouses, for example, requires a lumberjack’s yard, a sawmill, and a warehouse to store the goods. Creating steel beams, on the other hand, requires both an iron-mine and a coalmine for the raw materials, a smelting plant to create steel ingots, and finally a steelworks to forge the beams. Larger factories also require dozens, even hundreds of workers to function, so you need the supporting infrastructure in place to keep them fed, watered, and clean.
This is where Anno 1800’s “Blink and it’s “2AM” qualities start to reveal themselves. Once you unlock the third tier of “citizen”, Artisans, you’ll need an infrastructure capable of supporting the production of sewing machines, fur coats, and rum. The latter of these, of course, requires raw materials that don’t grow in a European climate. So to acquire these, you need to build ships and send them to explore the New World.
The New World is represented on an entirely different map, and has unique citizen types, production chains, and resources. This effectively means a game of Anno 1800 plays out on two unique RTS maps at once, which has all sorts of tactical considerations if you’re playing in multiplayer. You could be the King of Steel in the Old World, only to find your economy collapsing because someone in the New World stole an island that produces all your cotton.
Either way, you’ll need to set up trade routes to get these exotic goods to your increasingly needy (and populous) citizenry. It’s worth noting at this point that both sides of Anno’s city-construction are wonderful to watch in motion. The game has a slightly painterly aesthetic that complements the detail of its models and animations beautifully. Your fields of wheat and sugarcane are abuzz with workers, while carriages pulled by horses transport resources to the next stage of production.
These details evolve with your city, too. Clothing fashions change as your city becomes more advanced, while your horse-drawn carriages will increasingly give way to railroads and even bicycles. Such intimate detail does mean Anno 1800 is quite performance heavy. Viewing larger cities from certain angles will likely cause a significant dip in frame-rate on low-to-medium spec machines.
As your production chains expand and the desires of your people grow, the strategic side of Anno 1800 begins to show its teeth. At one point I discovered my starting island couldn’t produce beer, as the soil wasn’t fertile for growing hops. My people quietly informed me of this by staging a massive riot that obliterated my production and almost cost me my game. Needless to say, I promptly colonised a nearby island and set up a second settlement dedicated almost entirely to the production of beer, then organised a trade route to ferry this vitally important resource to the mainland.
The way all Anno’s systems interlock is impressive. If you’re struggling to create a resource yourself, then you can purchase it via your trading post. Yet doing this puts you at the behest of other players (or the AI if you’re playing singleplayer). At the same time, you can sell surplus produce from your settlements for profit. But even a burgeoning economy isn’t a guarantee of success. You still need to be able to either create or acquire the right resources to push your city deeper into the technological age.
In its later stages, Anno becomes a blend of industrial-scale plate-spinning with some broad-strokes RTS thrown in. As competition for resources becomes fiercer, you may need to wrest control of islands from your opponents. This can be done either through military force, deploying fleets of gunboats and frigates to lay siege to their ports. Or you can purchase shares in the island you desire, ultimately taking control in one fell financial swoop.
For the most part, I think Anno’s core systems are elegantly balanced. At times it can make you feel stretched, especially if multiple random events like fires happen at once. Even when had to pause a new project to upgrade a bunch of houses or relocate a low-level farm, however, I never felt bogged down in micromanagement.
That said, I do want to highlight one curious idiosyncrasy. Given the game’s core theme of a shift from an agrarian to an urbanised society, it’s surprising that employment is not more of a consideration. In fact, Anno 1800’s attitude to employment is the polar opposite of the period it is based on. Each household earns a set income regardless of whether the people who live there are have a job in the city or not. This effectively encourages you to have a large surplus of unemployed citizens, as each new house you build brings in that much more coin. As long as you can meet their needs, it’s perfectly fine to have hundreds of people sitting around doing nothing.
I’m not sure whether this counts as a flaw per-se, as there’s more than enough complexity to grapple with ensuring all your different citizens are sufficiently catered for. It’s just odd given how the game is otherwise very conscious of the changing times it represents. A harder problem is that Anno 1800 doesn’t provide enough tools to track your in-game finances. Your income and expenses are constantly fluctuating, and those ever-shifting numbers can make it hard to gauge how well your colony is actually doing. Normally I’d sooner eat my own keyboard than look at a graph in a video-game, but I think Anno 1800 would benefit from a bell-curve or two.
By far Anno 1800s biggest issue, however, is the appalling and incessant yammering of its AI players. Anno 1800s story campaign features a cast of characters that are fully written and voiced. I really wish it didn’t. The acting is hammier than a Doctor Who Christmas special, particularly that of your in-game nemesis Edvard Goode, who would twirl his moustache right off his face if he actually sported one.
Worse yet is the writing of the AI barks, which are often totally inane and uttered every time they interact with you, whether it’s an automated trade or simply a slight decline in diplomatic relations. One AI character declares “I can finally get rid of that pent-up gas!” literally every five minutes. This may seem like a minor problem, but it’s incredibly distracting from what is otherwise a gentle yet utterly absorbing game, like an episode of Better Call Saul being interrupted by the appearance of Keith Lemon.
Script carbuncles aside, Anno 1800 is a rich and sumptuous city-builder, easily the grandest and deepest Anno to date. Its early game is a wonderfully relaxing experience, while the later stages will have you scratching your mutton-chops and happily stretching your braces in equal measure.
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Anno 1800
Despite an annoying story mode, Anno 1800 is the biggest and best entry in the series to date.
Computer for Anno 1800 — testing and system requirements
2019
Genre : Strategy / Simulator
Developer : Blue Byte
Publisher : Ubisoft
Anno 1800 is a city-building and economic simulator with real-time strategy elements. It is the seventh installment in the Anno series developed and published by Ubisoft. The game takes place in the 19th century. Players find themselves at the dawn of the industrial age, when the greatest discoveries were made and diplomacy was actively developing. When creating huge cities, as well as exploring and developing new territories, you will need to show managerial and logistical skills. Success in trade, military affairs or in the diplomatic field will allow you to stay one step ahead of your opponents.
Anno 1800 combines features that players have come to love in the series’ 20 years of existence. The detailed city-building sim includes a story-driven campaign, a highly customizable sandbox mode, and classic multiplayer. With the release of the new part, beloved features will return to the series, such as individually selected AI opponents, the ability to transport goods, randomly generated maps, multi-session games, special items and much more.
Anno 1800 will feature many new features to bring the historical period to life as faithfully as possible. For example, the ability to send teams of specialists on expeditions around the world for the sake of wealth and glory. And the “Workforce” function will make the management of factories as convenient and realistic as possible. Also, players will be able to develop the territory of South America with deposits of black gold, which will become an indispensable resource in the age of industrialization.
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Minimum system requirements Anno 1800
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3470 / AMD FX 67 RAM: 8 GB
- Disk space: 60 GB
- Operating system: Windows 7 64-bit
Recommended system requirements Anno 1800
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1400 / Intel Core i5-4690k
- Video card: AMD Radeon RX 480 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 / MVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060
- RAM: 8 GB
- Place on disk: 60 GB
- Operating system: Windows 10
- 1920×1080: 2. 6 GB — 2.9 GB;
- 2560×1440: 3.0 GB — 3.3 GB;
- 3840×2160: 4.1 GB — 4.5 GB;
- 1920×1080: 7.3 GB — 9.4 GB
- 2560×1440: 7.4 GB — 9.5 GB
- 3840×2160: 7.5 GB — 9.9 GB
- GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB;
- Intel Core i5-8600 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 processor;
- 16 GB DDR4 RAM;
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150 FPS
Average performance in 8 games
Average FPS (frames per second) in games: Borderlands 3, Far Cry 6, Horizon Flight Simulator, Zero Horizon 5 Dawn, Red Dead Redemption 2, Total War Warhammer 3 and Watch Dogs Legion.
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Board game: ANNO 1800 (id 97229828)
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Features and description
Balance your island!
Smart planning and tracking of production chains is the key to the successful development of the industry of your island. Demonstrate remarkable entrepreneurial skills and strategies to become the best of the best!
In the board game «ANNO 1800», based on the popular computer game of the same name from Ubisoft, you will take command of an entire fleet to explore the islands of the Old and New Worlds and establish trade routes. But you are not fed up with trade alone: it is important not only to explore and discover new islands, but also not to forget to develop your own! Allocate resources wisely between areas of activity on the island, make sure that each worker is engaged in his own business, and keep an eye on competitors! Only a competent strategy will lead you to new achievements and victories!
Equipment
- Playing field
- 4 leaflets
- 4 player starting islands
- 12 Old World Islands
- 8 islands of the New World
- 290 tokens:
- 120 building tokens
- 130 Sailing Tokens
- 38 gold tokens
- First Player Token
- Fireworks Token
- 144 cards:
- 102 population cards
- 22 expedition cards
- 20 task cards
- 125 population cubes
- Rules of the game
- Box size: 194x277x67 mm
- Weight: 1.
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Based on the system requirements and testing of the video card, processor and RAM, we recommend the following PC components:
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Video memory consumption
Anno 1800 video memory consumption at maximum game settings:
Thus, the optimal video card for Anno 1800 in Full HD and 2K resolutions is a video card with 4 GB or more video memory. For 4K resolution, you need a video card with 6 GB of video memory. With less video memory, the RAM will be additionally loaded, which can lead to freezes.
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GeForce RTX 2080 8 Гб |
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GeForce RTX 2070 8 Гб |
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GeForce RTX 2060 6 GB |
16 23 |
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GeForce GTX 1080 8 Гб |
16 24 |
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti 8 Гб |
15 23 |
GeForce GTX 1070 8 Гб |
13 20 |
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GEFORCE GTX 1660 6 GB | 9000 9000 9000 | GETOR | GETOR | GETOR |