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Article #710230Re: Games similar to Settlers 5: Heritage of Kings
From: Jim Vieira
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:34
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:34
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<AMooreonline@juno.com> wrote in message news:1175165068.516764.242440@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > On Mar 29, 4:07 am, "Jim Vieira" <Whiplash...@wiDOT.rrDOT.com> wrote: >> "DartGuru" <alan.go...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message >> >> news:1175153909.816997.102940@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... >> >> > The missus has been playing this since it came out, and has played it >> > to death, along with the two expansion packs. >> >> > She's nearly finished the second expansion pack now, so I'm planning >> > ahead. Would anyone like to suggest games of a similar genre that she >> > might like? She's been very much a Civ player, and got into Settlers >> > IV (I think), so Settlers V was a BIG change in direction as the >> > gameplay has been completely changed. But she likes it and want more >> > of it. >> >> > Any suggestion gratefully accepted. Thanks >> >> the little I played of SV reminded me of the gameplay in Warcraft III. > > What's SV? Warcraft isn't what he is looking for. Settlers V.. Did you ever play it? They had nearly completely abanonded the original settlers style completely by that point. It's a complete Warcraft or Age of Empires type game by Settlers V. It really is much much different than the original Settlers games. Alot of fans were very unhappy about that. It's much more a generic RTS clone.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!63.218.45.10!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post02.iad01!roadrunner.com!not-for-mail From: "Jim Vieira" <WhiplashrAT@wiDOT.rrDOT.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic References: <1175153909.816997.102940@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <460b73e1$0$1394$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> <1175165068.516764.242440@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Games similar to Settlers 5: Heritage of Kings Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:34:27 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <460bb28d$0$28125$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit