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It’s a challenge when you’re asked to review a game that’s been re-released years after it’s first outing. It’s a nightmare when there are three of the damn things at once - perplexing more so when your critique has to fit into a word limit. Still, charged with the assessment of American Conquest Anthology this reviewer was.
There’s something completely compelling about these resource/military management titles. Watching your peasants work away at your order: chopping wood, gathering food, and recreating, whilst soldiers train and horses ready themselves for the weight of officers and scouts. Games within this genre haven’t changed much to this day. Sure the set pieces change – some are set in the distant future, others in the archaic past, but all are loaded with the same compulsive satisfaction that you get from playing God. However, eventually things have to change and evolve in order to keep this level of interest up – odd then that the American Conquest games break the surface once again after drowning so violently once before.
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