Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6274 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Focus Multimedia Ltd
• Released on: 2006-03-01
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Vista
• Number of items: 1

Manufacturer's Description
The Settlers: Heritage of Kings is a world-building strategy game with fully rendered 3D visuals and unavoidably addictive gameplay. Players can dive into a detailed medieval world offering a unique mix of RTS and simulation gameplay. A fully functioning community can be created, new advancements can be discovered and enemy forces can be repelled!

Customer Reviews

Settlers?
Since recently purchasing this game it has already been shelved above my desk(in the extremely unlikely to play again pile). I was very disappointed on beginning the game, as on the face of it the graphics looked good. i also believed that it would build on the sucesses of previous Settlers titles. I was however shocked to find that EVERYTHING that made a settlers game addictive, has been removed from this game. Firstly you are forced to play on the terms of the AI in relation to ready planned story lines (which are extremely boring!) and secondly resource transportation and production/manufacture has been replaced with homes/farms and other non refining buildings, which i have found rather simple and wide of what i expect of this title.

In summary the game plays less like a settlers game and more like a bad clone of action based RTS like AoE or Warlords II

Very disappointing!

Fun but lacks major variations
the game is a quite entertaining game but, it has one major problem. there is only one culture. As far as I know. This sadly reduces the bariability of play. Despite this small problem the game is a detailed and graphicly deep game. Also there is a good mix of maps to play on to tet you tarted.

There is no tutorial but this doesn't matter because the controls are incredibly simple but not so simple that they aren't fun.

All in all a good game with only one slight problem. BUY IT.

Fair game but it's not Settlers.
If you've read the other reviews on this game you will have realised that this is not Settlers. I think Ubisoft were just cashing in on the Settlers name rather than trying to launch another RTS game in a sea of RTS games. It a great pity as the original Settlers was a brilliant concept and just needed developing further as the gameplay became rather tedious after a while.

The concept behind this game would have worked brilliantly if they had kept the same graphics and pace of the original. That's not to say that this is a bad game but there are a lot of areas that are rather poor and spoil what is actually quite a good game.

Unlike earlier Settlers games you are assigned heroes with certain powers but will you need to buy surfs to carry out the mundane tasks of gathering resources, constructing buildings, etc. Then you have to assign these surfs to perform these tasks, although they can be reassigned at any time. They can also be assigned as troops but die very easily. As you build your economy there is a good variety of buildings to keep you interested, and as you research new technologies the variety of buildings available increase.

If you are determined to build a large army it is important to create as many workers as possible (surfs don't count though) as these workers pay taxes which are then used to pay for many things including your troops wages.

As you start each level it does become tedious as you have to create all the basic industries from scratch especially on the early levels. It is not til much later on that you are given the basics of an economy. It is also sometimes very difficult to spot where the resources are. Much of the map is blacked out but will reveal itself if you hover over the area, however I found that sometimes even if I had workers or buildings in a certain area it still remained partially blacked out, which is incredibly frustrating.

Battles too are a bit frustrating. You tend to end up with troops running around aimlessly when they should be fighting and the enemy troops are just as bad. The other problem with some battles is that enemy troops seem to appear endlessly unlike the old game which had a finite limit.

Overall, I would rate this game as fair. I have enjoyed playing it, but it is a great pity that it has little to do with the original concept. Hopefully Ubisoft will eventually return to what they do best.