(Ubisoft didn't make or publish any of these, for the record, but picked them up in mergers and acquisitions and whatnot over the years. I respect later Annos but never played 1602, so, er, how is it gang?Īs for Albion ( £3.89), I must repeat Adam's question: 'Anyone have fond memories of Albion?' AD is £3.89 on GOG.Īnno 1602, the colony-building strategy game which kicked off a fine series, is £6.49. Skimmy across the seabed and around rocks made it play quite differently to your average '90s space game too.

The German design firm Sunflowers, publisher of the earlier Holiday Island, strike gold (and ore for that matter) once again with 1602 A.D. Across a linear single-player campaign, you could upgrade and kit out your sub with different weapons and gear. 4.3 / 5 - 29 votes Buy Game GOG Description of 1602 A.D. While games like Privateer and Wing Commander were zipping around in space, Archimedia Dynasty dragged similar ship action down into murky waters of the post-apocalyptic future. Yes, GOG has added Albion, but as part of a trio of freshly unearthed Ubisoft games from the 1990s that also includes Anno 1602 (or 1602 A.D., for our friends in the colonies) and - here's the big one for me - Archimedean flipping Dynasty, the sc-fi submarine sim precursor to AquaNox.ġ996's Archimedia Dynasty is one of those games I played a cover disc demo of over and over, but never actually played in full. It includes aspects of exploration, combat, diplomacy and trade. The game is based around colony building and resource management on a series of small islands. 'On GOG now.' If we were '50s newsmen wearing three-piece suits and hats, keeping whiskey in our desk drawer (nowadays, it sits on the desk), staring at our secretary's gams, and saying 'scoop' unironically, we'd call that 'burying the lede'. Anno 1602 is a real time strategy game, set in the Early Modern (around the 17th century) period of history. 'Anyone have fond memories of Albion?' asks Adam in the RPS treehouse, perched on his stump.

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