First impressions of Dawn of Discovery (aka Anno 1404)
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OK, so I started playing the Dawn of Discovery demo (aka Anno 1404) last night on my primary desktop, and WOW, what a gorgeous game. I've loved all the games in this city-builder series, 1602 A.D., 1503 A.D., & 1701 A.D., and this one looks very promising as well.
While I've only played this demo for a little while, a couple of hours, the game is very similar to it's predecessors, though their are quite a few new features and technologies. Enough old to know my way around, enough new to require some listening to the instructions.
I couldn't find any good game play footage, so I thought I'd post this footage of the game, using the camera zoomed in, and surveying my crappy little settlement. The scenery is just incredible, I feel like the governor of my own little settlement some 500 years ago :).
I'm running the demo with all graphics settings maxed out on my desktop [AMD 7750x2, Asus EN9800GT Ultimate, 4GB RAM, Vista Home Premium] and FRAPs doesn't go much below 60 FPS.
Needless-to-say, I'm buying & downloading this one from D2D tonight for sure. I won't be seen for a while :)
Grab the demo from Big Download.
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Jul 2nd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
nice game
downloaded torrent
no crack :(
Jul 2nd, 2009 at 2:13 pm
lol, wait a month or so, you can pick it up cheap used on Ebay or a similar site. I usually wait until they're half price before I buy them if I don't want it immediately.
I bought this right away though, it's pretty fun, no multiplayer and it does feel a little too much like the others though, I'm starting to get a little bored with it already. :/
I wouldn't trust a "cracked" game anyways. Same with trainers, they seem to be loaded with viruses.