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Save for the occasional turn-based jaunt, strategy games have been a scarce commodity on handhelds through the ages. That is, until the DS came along with its not-entirely-un-mouse-like touchscreen interface. Since then, we've had a DS appearance for old PC stalwart Theme Park, with The Settlers set for release this summer. Following the relative success of the former - from a development standpoint, if not commercial - Disney Interactive is poised and ready to bring long-running PC swashbuckling-and-exploration strategy sim series ANNO to Nintendo's handheld.
However, the big difference here is that ANNO 1701: Dawn of Discovery - as it's known - is an entirely new game, developed from the ground up specifically for the DS. While still enjoyable, titles like Theme Park DS somewhat betrayed their origins by featuring an interface clumsily shoehorned into an aging gaming experience. From the off, it's clear that ANNO developer Keen Games has really put some thought into the series' move from big-screen to small-screen.
Oct 25, 2009 Anno 1404, also known as Dawn of Discovery in North America, is a real-time strategy and city-building game. It was developed by Related Designs and is published by Ubisoft. Mar 18, 2008 Anno 1701: Dawn of Discovery review. Anno 1701 feels like a mash-up of Sim City, Civilization, and Age of Empires. It begins simply enough. Your queen gives you a ship, some men, some raw materials, and a mandate to expand her empire. After a short time at sea, you spot a foreign landmass, drop anchor, and open a small trading post.
As a brief recap for newcomers to the ANNO series, you're tasked with discovering new lands, establishing settlements and building up thriving civilisations from humble beginnings and awkward mud huts in the name of your queen and her quest for global empire domination - with all the high seas exploration and treacherous battling that entails. At its heart, ANNO is a fairly standard strategy simulation, relying on your usual mix of resource management and civilian expansion - however, it's the sheer depth of proceedings that's garnered such a following on PC. Thankfully too, from what we've played so far, it looks like Keen Games has performed a minor miracle, squeezing so much into this inaugural handheld version.
Most impressive though is the skill in which the whole thing's been tailored specifically for DS. For a start, despite ANNO's depth and complexity, Keen's touchscreen implementation is a joy to behold, with almost every conceivable statistic or tool an easy, logical stylus-tap away. While the upper DS screen is reserved primarily for advisor hints and a running tally of your progress - monetary and otherwise - the lower screen features the main map and interface. Here, selecting and laying down buildings is simply a matter of choosing from the unobtrusive icons to the right, cycling through a sensibly organised list of categories and subcategories then laying them down with a couple of stylus taps.
In fact, everything - be it scrolling around the map with a pleasing stylus flick, adjusting tax rates, upgrading your buildings or probing an individual settler's needs, works impressively smoothly. For instance, checking on villagers is simply a matter of tapping their abode and selecting the pop-up question mark icon - after that, all the information you could possibly want appears in a concisely arranged sub-screen. There's even a dual-zoom function, meaning you can easily switch between a sizeable overview of your current island or get right in there for some fine-tuning - both views showing off the nicely detailed, if somewhat drap visuals.
By and large, we're incredibly impressed with Keen's work so far, despite a few mild grievances. For instance, advisor tips appear in a tiny area of the upper screen, scrolling painfully slowly. The upshot is that you're either impatiently waiting for more advise to reveal itself or so frantically busy you completely miss it. Ideally, we'd prefer an optional, although undoubtedly more obtrusive, pop-up advisory window option. Likewise, with so much potential data at your fingertips, it would be nice to have a more manageable overview at times - it can be irritating having to individually select houses and buildings to get a better idea of your current progress requirements.
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You might have noticed we've not really gone into great detail about the game itself. Largely, that's down to the sheer wealth of expansion, exploration and battle options available as your empire grows - far too much to cover in our initial impressions. However, it's also thanks to the rather nifty ANNOpedia included in the DS version. It's an exhaustive, illustrated compendium featuring everything you need to know about units, buildings and strategies in the game - all easily navigable through smart indexing and entry hyperlinks. Take this alongside the extensive tutorial that kicks off the Story Mode and ANNO really does work as a surprisingly handheld-suited pick-up-and-play game.
Story Mode is another one of ANNO's new additions, featuring story-driven, bite-sized mission objectives, designed to guide you through the internal workings of the game. Happily, it's structured smartly enough to introduce you to gameplay concepts gradually, while steadily upping the challenge in later missions, and it's all intelligently paced for portable gaming sessions. On top of that there's also a sandbox-style Continuous Play mode and multiplayer options.