Settlers are unique and lovely, some of them are clerics, others are generals who can influence and lead your armies, most of them are workers though, and scrawl about looking for resources before lugging them back to their workhouses. You can sell the crap you make, or continually refine it until it's a weapon of some kind. It into guns and hats without so much as a 'how's your father'. Just like in every game like it, you'll collect basic resources like wood and rocks and turn Who'd ever thought that medieval capitalism would make people rather randy? So Much Stuff You have to hammer out a decent population cap by constructing buildings and workyards, which makes people so randy that they start popping out babies. You can't win a game of Settlers 7 with just a handful of idiots in your village. Prestige is Settlers 7's take on XP, and as you increase in level you'll earn rewards allowing you to build better residences to raise your population cap, better shops for new units, or new roads, so that your settlers can scoot about even faster.

It should be good fun! The Bigger Picture The Prestige Through military, trade or science routes you must amass victory points to overtake your opponents, building your tiny village into a veritable empire and crushing all who oppose you under your sheer military, capitalist or scientific might.

But there's a focus on multiplayer now, which should be enough, at least, to raise the eyebrows of the island-based Europeans. Most Of You could probably take or leave the Settlers series, the distinctly German town-management game that blends Sim City with Teutonic sensibilities like patience, numbers, thinking, and the least-affective sort of light-hearted visuals imaginable.

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