The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom Gold Edition

Description

Since the first game of the award-winning building strategy series THE SETTLERS was released in 1993, the game has brought lots of fun, suspense and tricky challenges to many homes. THE SETTLERS GOLD EDITION packs together the award winning game THE SETTLERS 7 – PATHS TO A KINGDOM and all of its extensions ever released.
THE SETTLERS 7 – PATHS TO A KINGDOM recreates the building of a kingdom set in the early Renaissance period in a rich, wild, beautiful, and mostly empty middle-European world of lush forests, open meadows, fast flowing rivers, and high mountains.

Based on strong game mechanics, deep gameplay and the foundations of the highly acclaimed Settlers games, you will easily become engaged in the exciting campaign, skirmish maps or multi-player challenges.

An innovative victory point system and 3 different ways to play give you a lot of variety to build up your blossoming kingdom.

Enjoy the award winning game of 2010 in its most complete edition to date with all three downloadable contents (DLC) included on the disc, offering hours of additional gameplay in both single and multiplayer.

Key Features
Enjoy deep and rich building & production systems encouraged by the classic Settlers games.Create a kingdom with fortified towns and small villages where your Settlers produce goods for you. Expand your realm village by village, sector by sector.

Play the game different ways:

Build strong armies and defeat your opponents by shear military power.
Increase your influence in the monasteries to get access to the most attractive technologies.
Occupy the best trade routes to become the richest player on the map.
The new victory point system brings more tension and competition! Victory points are awarded in many different ways, and each map becomes a fascinating race.

conquering map sectors
having the biggest army
occupying the most trade routes
researching technology
become the richest kingdom
Enjoy a new graphics engine that lets you experience the beauty of your realm in an unseen level of detail.

AI opponents will challenge you in a thrilling campaign and in the fully customizable sandbox mode. Online and offline you can play with friends and or AI players. Ladders, clans and team play are supported.

Settlers 7 is a game you can play in many different ways. By unlocking many new items and using the map forge, you can create your very own Settlers experience, adjusting victory points, AI profiles and much more.

Play it fast-paced and thrilling or slow-paced and relaxed – whatever suits your style.

Take the most of all three downloadable content packs included on this Gold Edition and offering 7 brand new single player maps for over 20h of gameplay as well as 6 multiplayer maps, new events and buildings.

DLC I – FEATURES
Go even further in the Settlers 7 immersion through these 3 additional maps now available.

TEMPEST TAIGA On this 2 player map, it is up to you to reunite the divided Metropolis of Tanholm and bring it back to its former glory. While there is plenty of fertile building ground inside and outside of the city walls, this realm is also heavily protected by fortifications.

BATTLE OF TANHOLM On this 4 player map, you will explore the tempestuous Taiga Coast in the north of Tandria and experience a landscape divided by deep fjords. There are few coal mines around, but there are very large, thick forests, which can be used by coking plants.

FIERY CHASM On this 3 player map, a massive Volcano spills out streams of lava that cut through the land of volcanic cliffs and green meadows. Fight for domination in this land of conflict.

DLC II – FEATURES
3 NEW 4-PLAYER-MAPS (FOR SKIRMISH, MULTIPLAYER & EMPIRE MODE):

Whitewater Falls
Twin Peaks
Grassland Mesa
NEW EVENT LOCATION (“TOWER OF TANDRIA”)

NEW VICTORY POINT (“PACIFIST”)

NEW VICTORY POINT (“EFFICIENCY”)

NEW ECOBUILDING (MINE)

NEW ECOBUILDING (STABLE)

DLC III – FEATURES
Enjoy a total of more than 20 hours of exclusive gameplay on 7 new Maps!

RISE OF THE REBELLION: THE CAMPAIGN EXPANSION

New “Mini-Campaign”
5 new Campaign-Maps with more than 2 hours of playtime each
New Trading Options
New Trading Board
New Monastery Type (“Occult”) offering new “Occult” Technologies
New Techboard
SHADOW OVER TANDRIA: THE SCENARIO EXPANSION

New story- and quest-driven “Scenario Game Mode”
2 new gigantic Scenario-Maps with more than 5 hours of playtime each:
New Trading Options
New Tradeboard
New Monastery Type (“Occult”) offering new “Occult” Technologies
New Techboard
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System requirements for The Settlers 7 : Path to a Kingdom – PC (Download)

MINIMUM
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Processor: 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 / AMD XP 2600+ or better (Intel Core 2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 X2 recommended)
Memory: 2 GB (4 GB recommended)
Graphics: 256 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant, Shader 3.0-enabled video card (512 MB recommended)(*see supported list)
DirectX®:
DirectX 9.0c
Hard Drive: 8 GB
Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compliant sound card
Peripherals Supported: Windows-compliant keyboard and mouse
Internet Connection: Broadband Internet connection with 128 kbps upstream or faster
Supported Video Cards at Time of Release:
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 / 8 / 9 / GT / GTS / GTX series
ATI Radeon X1900 / HD 2000 / HD 3000 / HD 4000 / HD 5000 series