American Conquest
American Conquest
American Conquest, développé par GSC Game World et publié par cdv Software Entertainment et le studio lui-même, est sorti le 5 février 2003 sur PC (Microsoft Windows). Ce jeu de stratégie en temps réel à composante historique plonge le joueur dans la conquête du Nouveau Monde à partir de 1492, lors du débarquement de Christophe Colomb dans les Caraïbes, et couvre trois siècles de conflits opposant douze nations et tribus. À travers huit campagnes historiques et quarante-deux missions, l'utilisateur incarne des figures comme Pizarro ou Washington et peut diriger jusqu'à seize mille unités sur des cartes immenses en 3D, tout en explorant diplomatie, technologies et environnement stratégique. Le titre comprend également neuf missions solo indépendantes, six batailles historiques multijoueur et un mode en ligne jusqu'à sept joueurs, pour une durée de histoire principale estimée à trente heures.
L'accueil critique a été globalement favorable, avec un score Metacritic de 76 et une note agrégée de 77,04. Eurogamer a salué un jeu splendide malgré quelques problèmes de cheminement, tandis que PC Gameworld a relevé un gameplay détaillé, des batailles massives et une grande profondeur historique. Certains joueurs sur Metacritic estiment le titre sous-estimé pour son approche originale du genre, et des utilisateurs de Steam expriment le plaisir de retrouver ce jeu d'enfance, tout en signalant parfois la nécessité de réglages ou de logiciels tiers pour les résolutions modernes.
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Avis des critiques et joueurs
Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« A splendid game. The pathing issues do incur a degree of frustration, but never enough to drop kick your monitor into next door’s garden. »
« Features detailed gameplay, massive battles, and lots of historical depth. »
« Offers plenty of single-player campaigns, plus skirmish and multiplayer maps and a good history lesson to boot. »
« With loads of units on the screen, it really delivers on the spectacle of battle. »
« Can at times be both fun and frustrating. The engine looks good and runs well, but the friendly fire problems really killed whatever enthusiasm I built up for the game. »
« I loved the approach they took in setting this game up. I see this as a fresh genre that I haven’t seen successfully implemented until now. »
« While it isn't as intuitive as the best games in the genre, its underlying complexity is such that you could play for days and only begin to scratch the surface of what it has to offer. »
« Some may say that the 2D structure is dated and that the move to 3D is well overdue, however American Conquest like Cossacks does such a fine job with the detail of the environments and the armies, a change here could prove disastrous. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« Underrated game, such a different take on the genre with how resources and units/armies work. »
« very nice demo . good campaigned and scenario and the most UNIT i could trained in this game .but the processor must be very strong to show without lag. i think one of the best game based of history of U.S.A. »
« This is my favorite game ever. It sums up my entire childhood in a perfect game. You can move units as a single person, or hire flagbearers and drummers, etc. and make them into a squad of (up to) 196 troops. With artillery, ships, cavalry, buildings, outposts, like 16 different races all with vastly different playstyles, the sense of scale can be enormous or very tiny depending on the size skirmishes you get yourself into, and the ease of precision is perfect. 10/10 Perfect game »
« It's too bad this game is so obscure. I'd love to see another. Great strategy, thousands of troops at a time, realistic environments and fortification technques (but why aren't there walls? it really had potential there). I just wish the learning curve wasn't so steep and that the buildings had purpose in place of novelty as they sometimes do. »
« I was so very glad to see this game rated so highly, though surprised as well, because the learning curve is as steep as any game I can remember picking up for a first play since probably Civ 2 I would say. This is NOT Starcraft 2, it is not designed to be so intuitive that you can enact battles with a couple of group selections and A-clicks to stomp your opponent. This is a more deliberate, detailed, and ultimately, realistic and extremely convincing depiction of war on a large tactical scale. In this case, the wars ranged from Spanish conquests to American Indian Insurrections to the Revolutionary War; there's an incredible variety of campaigns available, it is endlessly replayable, and as though tons of high quality content weren't enough, each campaign comes complete with one of the most accurate and interesting historical prologues I could imagine for a historical wargame. Like historical wargaming? This is for you. Like RTS games and usually use at least a few keyboard hotkeys when playing one? This is most probably for you. Hated how slow Starcraft battles took to develop? This is most definitely not for you. This is one of the very few games I gave a '10' to simply because there's NOTHING wrong with it, it innovates in the genre, delivers what it promises plus a ton more, and does so beautifully. »
« One of the best RTS games out there. Once you get the hang of the gameplay, you'll be pwning everything in sight. A few things that are absolutely fricking amazing is the fact you can play while editing a scenario, and the fact you can have THOUSANDS of troops on the battlefield at one time. Battles between 2000 British and Americans, attempting to reenact a Revolutionary War battle? Yes please. »
« Great game indeed, one of the best RTS available, the game let you to build anywhere you want recruit hundred of troops, for squads of 120 men each with different choices of formation and stances, graphics are beautiful and animations are detailed, very challenging indeed, sometimes it got tedious however. If you like RTS genre this game for you and must have, it is better than Cossacks games in every aspects, now it is availbe on steam for very cheap price but you will have long hours playing it especially in the skirmish mode. »
