The Settlers II: Veni, Vidi, Vici

aka: Die Römer, Die Siedler II: Veni, Vidi, Vici, The Romans
Moby ID: 598
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Veni, Vidi, Vici is the sequel of the well-known Settlers game. You start your settlement with only one main building. To build any other buildings, you first must find a source for stones and wood. So you start to build little roads where your men transport all the different goods along. There exist more than 30 different professions your men can have, and many different building types. Of course, there are other settlers in your area, too, so war is unavoidable.

The graphics are now in SVGA, and the soundtrack is available as CD-Audio or MIDI.

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Average score: 82% (based on 27 ratings)

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Average score: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 85 ratings with 5 reviews)

Comes highly recommended

The Good
This is one of those games where you can set up your little settlement and then just sit back watching them go about their daily lives, cutting down trees, hunting for food and mining the various types of valuable substances which can be found in the mountains, the little people are extremely small but animation is fantastic through out especially on the backgrounds as you can see deer running in the forests, bunny rabbits hopping across the landscapes and the trees swaying in the wind. The graphics them selves are 2D but with the isometric view you get a cool 3D effect with each and every building being lovingly designed by the people at Blue Byte software with attention to detail second to none.

You start with a completely blank canvas and your HQ in the middle of the playing field, you are restricted within a boundaries at first but this can be extended once you build a watch tower and barracks but first you must start with the basics, build a forester and a woodcutter, these will cut down the trees and replant them so as to keep the stock maintained, from here on you build all of the available places of course remembering to send out the scout to discover water and other valuable stuff needed for you to succeed.

Once you begin making your way through the various chapters of the game you will discover new buildings and you will encounter other tribes, its at this point that you have to keep extending your empire by building barracks and watch towers to train your villages in the art of combat.

Each chapter can take quite a few hours to complete, in fact this game could ruin your life as you may find yourself turning up late to any plans you may have just so you can squeeze and extra hour out of the game. Its clear that a lot of time and effort was put into this game and it was a shame that it wasn't big in the USA, coming from a small company and selling by the bucket load in Europe it may have stopped Blue Byte being sold to Infogrames, the reason for the failure in USA was due to extremely bad marketing by SSI, they failed to get enough ads out and the magazines just looked it by and who knows, if the series had been such a massive success as it is in Europe they just might still be there own company.

The sheer amount of detail in your settlement when you have progressed on to the later levels will impress, your village becomes a large town and features loads of little people going about their daily lives, I didn't think it could get much better than this but the sequels proved me wrong and im eagerly awaiting number 4 in the series

The Bad
The main flaw with this otherwise brilliant game, combat is a case of just er..... watching and hoping that your man wins, some interactivity on this would have been fantastic and really raised the tension levels when you go to take on the evil forces.

The Bottom Line
Just go out and buy it NOW, you will not be dissapointed.

DOS · by tony cowling (2) · 2001

A delightful game.

The Good
This is one of the best strategy games ever, even better than its predecessor Serf City: Life is Feudal. Truly a magnificent game with great graphics, fast and efficient engine, excellent gameplay and replay value and the best of all - truly magnificent music I really enjoy.

The Bad
Nothing. It may not be perfect, but I can't think of anything truly unlikeable.

The Bottom Line
A great sequel to a great classic, this game will keep you occupied for a long time.

DOS · by Tomer Gabel (4539) · 1999

Complex and intriguing.

The Good
The core of the game is its resource system. The player has to manage dozens of different resources, building a complex system of buildings that provide each other with the required supplies.

The Bad
The game's advantage is also its bane- the gameplay is very slow. Setting up the most basic colony can take up to 15 minutes, and then the real game begins, with the player building more and more different structures all around the map.
The battle system is very schematic, and the final hours of play end up with repetitively building military structures and attacking, without any thought or sense of purpose.

The Bottom Line
If you have a lot of free time, play this excellent strategy game.

DOS · by El-ad Amir (116) · 2001

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The manual also serves as a flip-book where you can see two soldiers fighting :)

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Game added December 19, 1999. Last modified January 24, 2024.