Customer Reviews

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

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

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.

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....

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...

America is a wonderful RTS game. Forget all the ridiculous comparisons to AOE2. For god sakes, Ive been playing AOE2 for almost 2 years, this is nothing like it. Im not even going to bother to compare it in this review too much.

America has a WONDERFUL theme, they recreated the feel of the time excellently and made it very fun. There are four different groups to play as, The Native Americans (my favorite, they can swim without using boats and have Medicine Men who have interesting powers similar to Tzar's wizards and they are much better than AOE2s monks), The Outlaws, The Mexicans, and the United States. All of these civilizations are VERY unique, all have their own units and share none of the same. All have cool technology and buildings, all have cool differences that make each a fun time to play with.

Each civilization has a campaign with excellent Voice Briefings and on occasion a beautiful cinema (some of the best cinemas I have seen, look very interesting).

The game ships with a VERY difficult AI (EVEN ON VERY EASY HEHEHE) that can play on scenario maps and stuff so the game doesnt get boring if you are playing alone. The game has very good replay value!!

The expansion is going to come out this month (October 2001) and will include a bunch of new stuff to drool for!

This game is very complicated as well, it has things like Travois, robberies, dances, mining where the people actually go INTO THE DARN MINES!!, and camoflauge for the Natives. It is all balanced, ok so the natives have some weak units, so what, give them swim and rob and camoflauge and you will have plenty of horses and guns in no time hahaha.

Get this game if you love real time strategy. It is a bit more complicated compared to AOE2 so you should get that if ur a casual RTS fan. This game is so FUN!! You can even pack up your indian village into wagons and move it to another spot on the map just to make your enemy even more confused!! HAHA ( I have a friend who I play online with haha ).

America is a wonderful RTS game. Forget all the ridiculous comparisons to AOE2. For god sakes, Ive been playing AOE2 for almost 2 years, this is nothing like it. Im not even going to bother to compare it in this review too much.

America has a WONDERFUL theme, they recreated the feel of the time excellently and made it very fun. There are four different groups to play as, The Native Americans (my favorite, they can swim without using boats and have Medicine Men who have interesting powers similar to Tzar's wizards and they are much better than AOE2s monks), The Outlaws, The Mexicans, and the United States. All of these civilizations are VERY unique, all have their own units and share none of the same. All have cool technology and buildings, all have cool differences that make each a fun time to play with.

Each civilization has a campaign with excellent Voice Briefings and on occasion a beautiful cinema (some of the best cinemas I have seen, look very interesting).

The game ships with a VERY difficult AI (EVEN ON VERY EASY HEHEHE) that can play on scenario maps and stuff so the game doesnt get boring if you are playing alone. The game has very good replay value!!

The expansion is going to come out this month (October 2001) and will include a bunch of new stuff to drool for!

This game is very complicated as well, it has things like Travois, robberies, dances, mining where the people actually go INTO THE DARN MINES!!, and camoflauge for the Natives. It is all balanced, ok so the natives have some weak units, so what, give them swim and rob and camoflauge and you will have plenty of horses and guns in no time hahaha.

Get this game if you love real time strategy. It is a bit more complicated compared to AOE2 so you should get that if ur a casual RTS fan. This game is so FUN!! You can even pack up your indian village into wagons and move it to another spot on the map just to make your enemy even more confused!! HAHA ( I have a friend who I play online with haha ).

The game was alright at the start but got old fast.

It is very much in the vein of "Age of Empires". I had no problems running it on a P3 350 MHZ running Windows 2000 ADVANCED SERVER of all things. It also ran on 2000 Pro well. The one thing I would change is what the characters say. I got tired of the Indian archers saying something that sounded like "It's a zebra! It's mine!"

I really wish you could get the cheats like they had in Age of Empires. The Indians were really at a disadvantage when played against any of the other groups, so a couple of '65 Corvairs with rocket launchers would have been nice to take out the cannon factories...

I think this game is one of the best! It is somewhat related to Age of Empires and Star craft but is unique too. I love it!

I installed the game on a P-III, with 256 MB RAM, Windows ME, and 32 MB of Video Ram. The game wouldn't run. I then downloaded the patch from Data Becker and it still wouldn't run. All I ever got to see of the game was a blue Windows error message screen and a prompt to reboot. (E-mails to tech support went unanswered.) The pictures on the box look nice though.

Bottom Line: Save your money -- I returned it after a week of trying to get it to work.

America is a action and strategy game where you pick to be either americans, outlaws, mexicans, and Native Americans.

The best way to find out about the game is look at the table of contents in your booklet which tells about objects characters and how to do things.

This game only allows views from preety high up where you can see your uniforms and objects good but not their faces.

Drawings of objects are simple but some parts of it are complex.Each group has different kind of specialties. Which are shown on their website displayed in the back of the book.Their aren't a ton of people you control just about between 20 and 80 when you start a mission.

Every campaign has 6 levels. You have to play them a lot to get them.

To get food you either plant it where instead of a harvest you just get 15 units of food after the woman scrapes the field 33 times. Fields aren't complex.

You chop wood to so you can have enough to give supplies to a army man to have him train.

Depending on how good of a player the person you're training is that will be how long it takes for you to train him. You dont actually train you just give him all the supplies he needs and then you click on a picture of that guy for you to wait a while and then he will come out of that place.

You have to build your homes and other things.

I dont want to give you more because you can get much more in the book. By the way do easy for every level because it is very hard to beat.