Comments on: 'The Settlers' – Real Time Strategic Planning

By: Bimbo

Bimbo — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:46:14 +0000

I tried to get the ipod app to run in the background but it doesn't do it for me. As soon as I open 'Settlers' my music fades away… And can't see any options in the sound menu. Any tips?

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:57:57 +0000

Actually it's $8.99. You heard me. $8.99.

By: fi2-shift

fi2-shift — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:49:48 +0000

Wow, this game takes like 700Mb of space in my iPod touch @.@…. I don't really know how can they put all those stuff in a compressed .IPA file of 225 Mb!

By: abugida

abugida — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:45:31 +0000

It should be mentioned that this is a port of The Settlers 4 for PC, released in 2001, with identical gameplay and missions, sans free-play and online-play, but with some additional background artwork. The missions provide tons of gameplay, and we will see if Gameloft will add the free play mode later.

The price was probably raised after the game went number 1 in Germany and Gameloft realized the game should be worth more than the (recently released and somewhat similar) Settlers of Catan. It is still the biggest game franchise in Gemany (besides Anno), and as far as I know it's the first Settlers game in many years that wasn't widely panned for its bugs and pointless deviation from the core Settler gameplay (it's certainly much better than the DS version). Another excellent job from Gameloft!

By: mores

mores — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:31:01 +0000

Well, okay, I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to business practices in mobile gaming. I just didn't read any mention of a early adopters discount in the first review, and didn't see mention that this period is up in the second review so I thought it was a sneaky move

By: ja

ja — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:54:53 +0000

run ipod app, minimalize it, then run settlers

By: jimmysck

jimmysck — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:40:38 +0000

Well said. Now Gameloft, another sales pls!

By: arn

arn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:40:01 +0000

what's to say? We changed the price in the story to reflect the current price. Apps frequently come out at discount launch sales. Rewards early adopters.

arn

By: wegmans

wegmans — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:19:59 +0000

Hear hear!! I just want skirmishes… i've never been a fan of story mode

By: Beeb

Beeb — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:57:49 +0000

I had the original The Settlers. I was hooked. I am glad to see that the game has stayed so similar to the original, the only difference that I can see is you can't order your settlers to have a priority on the resources they carry. Sure, no freeplay mode… but I'm in it for the battles, and you get plenty of them in all the campaigns so I'm not complaining. Personally I'd rate this as a must buy.