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The Romans, Mayans and Vikings are the three industrious little races you’ll be settling with. The seamless zoom function allows you to take a close-up peek as your settlers of about their daily business, or to zoom out for a bird’s-eye view of how your very own empire in coming along.

Put you settling skills to the test in single-player missions, with friends and colleagues in a local area network (LAN) and with gamers from all over the world via the Blue Byte Game Channel! For beginners, getting started is a piece of cake thanks to the extensive tutorial missions!

Just because of that little uprising, Morbus has been banished to earth by HIM, the highest God of all. It really could not have been worse of this particular villain, as Morbus cannot bear the sight of anything green. He definitely doesn’t plan on letting it stay that way – his Dark Tribe will soon be waging way on the earth’s flora and fauna.

• Feature Single-Player Mode:
  Three races with their own campaigns: The Romans, Mayans and Vikings have their own individual style in dress, weapons, alcohol and magic!
• The Dark Tribe: Stop Morbus and his creepy crew in their tracks in a new special campaign!
• New graphic engine: Characters, buildings, animals and landscapes have been completely revamped and are meticulously detailed!
• Improved transport: Load up your donkey cards and the whole of the settler’s world is your oyster!
  Paths and roads: Will-travelled routes are transformed into paths and paved roads, helping your settlers to get there faster!
• Hunters and wild animals: The woods are now teeming with hares, deer and other wildlife – a veritable hunter’s paradise!
• New strategy options: Show off your tactical genius and steel your defences by appointing Squad Leaders and deploying your soldiers with more precision than ever before!

Multiplayer Mode and the Internet:

• Internet & LAN: Up to eight players can battle it out on one map on a local area network (LAN) or FREE online gaming via BLUE BYTE GAME CHANNEL!
• Clans: Establish a clan and team up with friends to take on the world!
• Settlefest & Cooperation modes: Compete against your opponents in a head-to-head settling battle on identical maps to put your heads together and cooperate!
• Word ranking lists: Ranking list points are up for grabs for single player and clans 0 there is no greater honour than topping the charts in the SETTLERS IV!
• Trade: Iron supplies at an end? Maybe you can get your hands on your neighbour’s surplus metal by trading in some of those coal reserves!
• Coats of arms: Spruce up you castles with one of a range of emblems available!
• Chat & voice chat: Keep in touch with your fellow players during the game with written and spoken messages!

ULTIMATE STRATEGY: ON LAND, ON SEA, ON-LINE

The Settlers III is a compulsive and addictive real-time strategic simulation of tactics, prosperity, combat and growth. As a champion of the gods, take leadership of the resourceful Romans, the skillful Egyptians or the agressive Asians. Control scores of tradesmen and command legions of armed forces in the all-consuming evolution of your tribe and ultimately the victory of your chosen race. From humble beginnings, manage your resources carefully, build your settlements wisely and trade prosperously. Develop a thriving economy and powerful military that will eventually dominate all races and restore your chosen god to favour once more. The Settlers III offers completely new 3D rich graphics, expanded naval navigation, entirely new strategic elements and exclusive on-line gameplay.

Singe player features

• See 150 unique characters brought to life with over 50,000 phases of animation!
• Over 110 different buildings can be built, some of which can be occupied!
• Build a flourishing economy with over 30 different trades - woodcutters, stonemasons, hunters, fishermen, farmers, brewers, miners, merchants, priests and many more!
• Set sail on merchant ships and ferries, erect fortresses and towers and lead archers, swordsmen and spearsmen in battles waged in real-time

Multiplayer mode, On-line and Internet features:

• Numerous multiplayer levels. Using a LAN, the player has the oppertunity to battle with different players, or compete on the Internet.
• Play around the clock with Settler's fans around the world. Chat, form teams and play full tournaments on the dedicated Settlers III Internet Server!

The New RTS Game From Ed Del Castillo

Kenji, exiled heir to the dragon throne, must stake his claim in a chaotic world wracked by the intrigues of the Serpent, Wolf and Lotus Clans.

Shall he vanquish the land under a campaign of malevolence or restore the war-torn realm to its former glory? Enter Battle Realms and the path is yours to make.

85 Unique units that come alive with dozens of animations
Train mounted horses to strengthen you army or steal them from the enemy
Leverage the tremendous effects of line-of-sight and attacking from higher ground

• WARRIORS BEYOND IMAGINATION – Experiment with unit alchemy and turn peasants into one-of-a-kind fighters like Samurai, Canoneers, Bandits or Geisha, and scores of other mystical warriors.
• STRUGGLE FOR DOMINATION – 4 Clans to play with, each with its own units and own powers (or abilities).
• LIVE OR DIE BY THE LAND – Seize tactical advantages in a living world teeming with life – birds fly when startled, wolves attack troops, and higher ground offers increased power to range attacks.
• COMMAND THE POWER OF THE ZEN – Your Zen Masters wield fantastic powers in the heat of battle – heroic feats inspire your people, granting magic powers and new equipment.
• BLOOD SPILLED IS POWER GAINED – Lead warriors to victory and earn Yin & Yang points to acquire destructive new weapons and magic. More combat leads to more power.
• A WAR FOR THE MASSES – Stage epic battles with up to 8 players over the Internet or Lan.

Where Exploration Meets World Domination

The New World unfolds before you. Your objective is to skilfully parlay discovery into riches and amass enough power to dominate Europe’s political landscape. Combining elements of resource management, economic trade, exploration, diplomatic manoeuvring and military conquest, the multi-faceted strategy game challenges you to leverage New World riches into Old World dominance. To achieve victory, you must employ a web of intricate strategies. When diplomacy is the order of the day, dispatch envoys to develop critical trade relations whilst secretly deploying spies to undermine you enemies. If the diplomacy fails, build and invincible military machine with a unquenchable thirst for conquest. Skilfully manoeuvre you nation and don’t forget: the object is to unite Europe under one flag.

Features:

• The richness and depth of game play is reflected in 40 military and civilian units and 100 technologies from over 300 years of history (1500s-18000s).
• Advanced artificial intelligence considers nation-specific personalities, strategies and diplomatic agendas.
• High-resolution graphics set in an engrossing baroque style.
• Intuitive interface and extensive game play tutorial makes it east for first time players to get up and running.
• Go head-to-head against other world leaders in multi-player mode supporting up to 6 players.

Finally, role-play heroes meet in real-time strategy!

Prepare to enter the next generation of real-time strategy. Here you’ll develop a hero to lead your forces into battle. Share your abilities and spells with surrounding members of your army and develop your hero as you expand your empire. Because what’s the fun of winning a battle if you don’t know who to carry off on your shoulders?

• Combine elements of real-time strategy and RPG in the first hero-based RTS ever.
• Cunning computer players fight against humans – or ally with them.
• Develop your hero through scenarios, campaigns and multi-player games in a magical fantasy environment. (INTERNET ACCESS REQUIRED)
• Focus on strategy instead of basic implementation with automatic resource collection.

Experience a unique combination of role-playing heroes and real-time strategy gameplay.

Build hero warriors in the Warlord’s fantasy world of Etheria. Battle-tested heroes develop into unique classes such as Death Knight, Assassin or Ice Mage. A new single player campaign delivers 12 unique sides, new terrain and new magical effects. Create multiple heroes and tract their courage in the single player campaign or over the internet.

• Persistent hero development over the internet.
• 12 unique does and over 100 units and spells.
• New single player campaign with a strategic level map.
• Random map generator.
• Up to 12 types of multiplayer games available.
• Sequel to the critically acclaimed hero-based RTS.
• New arctic and desert terrain with new building such as celestial and dragon temples.
• New magical effects for bigger and better spells.

Europa Univeralis II is the sequel to once of the greatest strategy games ever made. It invites you to the global struggle for supremacy from the dark ages of Joan of Arc to the flaming wars of Napoleon. More then 400 years of gameplay.

Lead any of over 200 playable nations guiding domestic and foreign policies. Engage in religious struggles, set up expeditions to clam the New World and lead your country to the prosperity and victory. Send you privateers to roam the seven seas, muster mercenaries to bolster you defences and send missionaries to convert infidels to you State Religion. Interact with true historical events and persons through the course of history.

You will change the world and create history!

Take par in the civil wars of England and watch the rise of the Habsburg dynasty! Chose sides in the struggles of the Ashikaga Shogunate in Japan that for 200 years was torn by civil wars! Discover, conquer and colonise a New World, and enter the age of liberalism with the American and French Revolutions! As if this was not enough, Europa Universalis II also lets you play through the Napoleonic wars.

• Take Control Of Any Nation in the world from Feudal Japan, America, Russia, The Qing Dynasty of Manchu to the traditional countries such as Spain, France and England.
• Includes New Units & Technology from the High Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The Baroque and the Napoleonic Era.
• Huge Map Spans The Globe with more then 1600 land and sea provinces.
• Detailed And Historically Accurate buildings, armies, navies changing over time.
• Optimised For Multiplayer EUII enables players to easily meet over the net within several scenarios specifically designed for multiplayer games.
• More Than 2 Hours Of Quality Audio of period music and new sounds effects truly bring the massive era to life.
• Intuitive Interface, Tutorial And Manual offer a controlled and immersive gaming experience for Novice and Hardcore gamer alike.
• Scenario Editor make you own events and set ups to create thousands of variations of the game.