American Conquest

The Good
The historical stuff was pretty cool. The controls aren't to difficult. It's fun watching all those guys march in line and listening to the drums. The scenery is pretty.

The Bad
It's overly complicated. If you try to build military units, you will be informed that you need to put villagers in the barracks etc.Units also take up food to eat, gold to pay them, and coal and iron every time they fire. This sounds good in theory, but it's pretty bad when you play it. When you're trying to survive an enemy attack, u want to be able to just build stuff, not have to build villagers, THAN bring them to point A etc. In the game, kryptonite has apparently turned all the animals into super animals. This will beome painfully apparent when a herd of bears slaughters 10 villagers. The animals are the most powerful single unit in the game. They will wander into your base and kill a bunch of your villagers while your fighting or doing some thing else. The game can be SLOOOOWWW!! When you get 10000 guys firing guns, it turns the game into, "OK, I'm going to let the A.I. handle this. Buildings are easy to capture. You can just get all your guys to walk by the enemy forces and capture their buildings. I could find no difference in the civs. Either Native American or European. I also found that the civs are not balanced at all. The Europeans will definitely win any battle. Although the Indians are faster, their units are all much weaker. This means that the Europeans can capture nearly any of their buildings with ease and the native Americans hardly can at all. Lastly, the Indians, when their archers attack buildings with arrows, they can catch on fire. I know that it isn't unrealistic, but it's just plain annoying.

The Bottom Line
Don't bother. This game is grossly overpriced.