A*M*E*R*I*C*A (America)

by Data Becker

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00004Y5TQ
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: January 24, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,140 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Why just remember the Alamo when you can reenact it? America is a real-time strategy game set in the Wild, Wild West; 30 different missions are available, each with four levels of difficulty. Players control the destiny of a group of people-–Native Americans, Mexicans, outlaws, settlers, or American soldiers-–and attempt to lead them to prosperity. To accomplish this, players will have to build armies, prepare military formations and battle strategies, form alliances and treaties, manage morale and experience, use the land effectively, and take advantage of their groups' special abilities. For example, Native Americans are the only ones who can swim. Horses play a major part of the game--riders can mount and dismount horses, and players can steal, catch, or trade for horses. There is multiplayer support for up to eight players, including network play.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BUGGIEST GAME I EVER PLAYED, January 23, 2001

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Roscoe Himple (Denville, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A*M*E*R*I*C*A (America) (CD-ROM)

I have NEVER, in 13 years of playing PC games run into one that has so many problms. It is a shame that the publisher released this game in UNFINISHED coondition. It has been in the stores since January 14th. First of all, every time you put the game in the CD drive, it wants to reinstall itself. The mouse pointer disappears during game play. The audio quality is horible. The game freezes constantly when you can get the mouse pointer to stay alive. It speeds up. It slows down. It was installed on both a WIN95 and WIN98 computer, both with Gforce 2 video cards and 128MB ram. On the Data Becker web site, they claim a patch is comming soon. Ya know what, don't bother. It's not worth the grief. Oh, and when I uninstalled it, it uninstalled DirectX. I had to reinstall DirectX and reconfigure my video drivers on BOTH computers. If this is the way they release games, these folks should be forbidden from selling, period.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If you liked 'Age of Empires' you'll like this-, March 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: A*M*E*R*I*C*A (America) (CD-ROM)

I don't know what everyone is complaining about- I've had absolutely no problems at all. I'm running an 800mhz Athlon with a Gforce Prophet. It's identical to 'Age of Empires'. Same interface, etc. You can play an Indian, settler, Mexican or Outlaw. Each have their own unique traits and skills. It's not bad. The game playing options are a little limited but I like the idea of playing "cowboys and Indians" and riding in on my stolen horse to burn settlers houses was quite amusing! It's different from all those other games out there and I applaud those game makers out there trying to break the "Quake" mold to which I'm totally bored with....

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fun game (has potential) but numerous BUGS, January 26, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: A*M*E*R*I*C*A (America) (CD-ROM)

This game is fun with the exception of some major bugs. There seems to be major graphic and mouse problems. My system easily met all the requirements but I had nothing but problems from the initial install. I even tried the latest patch 1.01 and things got worse. The games locks up right at the main menu screen with the patch installed. It's too bad, the game was right fun even though I had to suffer through the graphic and mouse problems before the patch. P.S. - I don't have any problems running Age of Empies II, Sudden Strike, Shogun and Command and Conquer Red Alert 2. Buyer beware...