If you liked the demo and you're in this type of games, you should get it. The game had at least a year of steady patch releases and a major addon, so I'm almost certain that most of the bugs were fixed long time ago. The world is huge and fairly well made. I think you'll enjoy it.
The problem here is that SoaSE doesn't even have a standard singleplayer campaign, and Anno 1404's campaign is basically a series of tutorial misisons. But if you have a co-op buddy or two to play with, both of these two games can be very exciting. Especially Anno 1404.
For enjoyable singleplayer strategies...Galactic Civilizations II is still a good alternative to Civ IV; Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars still looks good and provides a couple of hours of entertainment.; and I hear the King Arthur games (King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame, Lionheart: Kings' Crusade, King Arthur: Fallen Champions) are pretty good too, but I haven't tried them myself to say for certain.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is another decent PC beat-em-up that comes to mind, though I wouldn't exactly compare its combat system to that of DMC. Don't you own a console? You'd probably fall in love with Bayonetta and Ninja Gaiden.
So if a game isn't innovative or brings new things to the table then we AUTOMATICALLY write it off as a **** game?
FelipeInside
Perhaps not automatically, but as a rule of thumb? Sure, why not. Aside from the fact that WoW was a game with some rather primitive gameplay mechanics to begin with, I've come to expect a bit more from my games that I did almost a decade ago. Is it that unreasonable to ask for any type of advancement from a 2011/2012 game compared to its 8-to-10-year-old, 56k-dial-up-compatible predecessors? Or to ask it to include some of the features that could already be found in most non-MMORPG games back in the 90s? I don't see why it should be, but maybe you could tell me.
I played the trial for about an hour and uninstalled the damn thing off my PC without thinking twice. If I had a gun to my head, I'd rather play Unreal Tournament 2004 than this crap. At least that one had an element of strategy in it.
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