Age of Sail II (hx) 01:55 AM CET - Feb,11 2001
Age of Sail II is a sequel to the popular naval strategy game Age of Sail from Talonsoft. The game covers naval combat from 1775 to 1812. The game offers English-French and English-American campaigns, more than 100 standalone scenarios of most famous battles: Copenhagen, the Battle of the Nile, Trafalgar etc, the complete information about more than 2,000 historical ships from 11 countries (England, France, Denmark, Naples, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, and the United States), detailed reconstruction of famous battles, old drawing used to create 3D models of ships and fortifications, full floating 3D camera that allows you to zoom, rotate and pinpoint exact locations. The game graphics are well done, each ship is exquisitely detailed, as ships take damage, a multiskin effect lets you see more holes in the sails, also fire will break out on deck and entire masts will go over the side as the enemy continues to pump iron into your hull. Alike the original Age of Sail game, Age of Sail II lets you control each ship's sail configuration, speed, course, ammo, and weapon aiming. The interface in game is at once functional, informative, and easy to use. In addition the game includes an all-important time-acceleration option - game speed can be accelerated to either 2x, 4x, 8x, 16x or 32x, or it can be paused. Age of Sail II is very good looking strategy game, if you liked original Age of Sail you will more than satisfied.
snd: 3/5 - Quite good gfx: 4/5 -
Beautifully rendered ships, full floating 3D camera playability: 4/5 -
Simple controls, time-acceleration option, up to 32 players via LAN/Internet
genre: real time naval strategy release: February 2001 developer: Akella publisher: Talonsoft
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