Anno 2070 announced, with pictures (not a joke)

[QUOTE="rcignoni"]Looks interesting, but Ubisoft being involved means I'm not getting excited.AncientDozer

Does the Anno series have some sort of rule that the numbers must add up to 9 or something?

[QUOTE="AncientDozer"][QUOTE="rcignoni"]Looks interesting, but Ubisoft being involved means I'm not getting excited.rcignoni

Well it looks like they got rid of alot of those problems in AC Brotherhood.

YES!! Love Anno! 1404 was easily GOTY 2009 :)

Any words on a releasedate?

It's a shame that this game might have a crappy combat system like the last one. Why don't they just borrow the style from AoE or Total War?

Mr_BillGates

Different kind of games. Anno is a city builder, the combat is just an afterthought. It already requires a lot of managment for its city building part, if it had the same attention in the combat managment then it would be a mess.

Never played an Anno game before, Would like to.

[QUOTE="AncientDozer"][QUOTE="rcignoni"]Looks interesting, but Ubisoft being involved means I'm not getting excited.rcignoni

I wonder if they dare to remove churches and the need of faith seeing as it's set in 2070? I mean, it's clearly the direction modern societies are heading. Secular/non-religious.

I'm actually really interested to see how they'll take advantage of the sci fi setting. skrat_01

ratch and clank rip off confirmed NWA90s

First trailer is up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZ8ID8a1dU

The game looks great and I loved the idea to choose the way you can develop your city: ecological or industrial.

Day one buy!

I approve of this title.

Instant buy

Will there be more fetch quests...? Bought 1404 several months ago but the amount of fetching quests was astonishing, I didn't bother to finish the game, stopped at 2nd (or 3rd) chapter.... (fetch the wood fetch the stone fetch the solider fetch the clothes fetch [insert name here]. graphwise it was pretty, just cannot stand the gameplay)

[QUOTE="AncientDozer"]Sometimes you need to accept change or at the very least give it a chance. Sooner or later things change and you got to come to terms with it. If nothing changes, then you risk stagnation which is bad for companies and franchises, particularly less well-known. That's a problem we gamers face is that we get so attached to games that we believe that they are "our" games and that any change to the formula is automatically terrible and goes against the "spirit" of the game. As an outsider, I obviously have no connection to Anno but I understand the sentiment. Really, it's too late to turn back now so we'll have to wait and see. The pictures, at least, are impressive and applying anything from previous games to that in mind generates an interesting image. Give it a chance. Maybe you will be surprised.JLF1

Change is good. I am still disappointed with the new setting. Anno is a niche franchise for a niche audience. They are relying on a certain number of fans to buy this. I might not be one of them for this game.

My problem is that there are far too few historical strategy games and far too many sci-fi games. Another huge issue is that the Anno franchise is based on realistic settings and ideas. It's more or less a trade sim. Having it i the future kills that illusion of realism for me.

Imagine if Starcraft 3 was sett in modern time.

I'd say that it's backwards, especially on the PC front of city builders.

Does anyone feel like they're trying to mimic Starcraft in some way, because that's the best selling strategy game? GeneralShowzer

First trailer is up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTZ8ID8a1dU

The game looks great and I loved the idea to choose the way you can develop your city: ecological or industrial.

Day one buy!

RyuRanVII

Woah. I haven't tried a Anno game before but if they come up with a demo then I going to try this.

Change is good. I am still disappointed with the new setting. Anno is a niche franchise for a niche audience. They are relying on a certain number of fans to buy this. I might not be one of them for this game.

JLF1

Anyway, people need to consider one thing. It's Blue Byte (Settlers creators) who's lead dev on this, Related Designs (makers of 1701 and 1404) are only helping out this time. Most likely it means Related itself is working on more traditional sequel atm.

I really like how 2070 looks and I welcome the nice increase in gameplay complexity as well as huge incrase in scale