The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom brings a fresh, innovative design to the franchise, while reintroducing the strong game mechanics and deep gameplay that are hallmarks of the highly acclaimed Settlers series. Players will easily become engaged in an exciting campaign, skirmish maps or multi-player challenges in a world of lush forests, open meadows, fast flowing rivers, and high mountains.

General Features

• Rich gameplay mechanics: The deep building and production systems allow gamers to expand their kingdom village by village, sector by sector, optimizing their creation by fine-tuning production chains and transport systems.
• Variety of gameplay: Gamers will be able to choose the best path to lead their kingdom to victory around three main pillars: military, science and trade.
• All-new victory system: New victory point system brings more tension and competition to the game. Victory points are awarded in many different ways depending on the choices gamers make throughout the evolution of their kingdom.
• Online Multiplayer: gamers will be able to play online and face opponents in classic adversarial and co-op teamplay modes. Online features include user-generated and downloadable content, in-game feeds, and various leaderboards.
• A new graphic engine and improved AI: A brand-new graphic engine will let gamers experience the beauty of their kingdom in a never-seen-before level of detail and more than a dozen AI profiles, each with unique behaviors, will add enhanced variety to the game like never before.

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Also a little teaser of the game: http://siedler.de.ubi.com/siedler-7/

Strategy games are going to make a huge damage next year, with Starcraft 2, Command & Conquer 4, Napoleon: Total War, and now Settlers 7!

so, back to what made Settlers great then. looking forward to it, last one I played was almost an RTS and I didn't play the more recent ones.

Another huge PC exclusive!

shio, how much do you think this will sell? 2 million? 5 million?

As long as it will be better than 5 or 6 and will come back to its roots....

there was Settlers 5 and Settlers 6? wow. i though that the last main game was Settlers 4.

The game series went downhill after 2 and took a VERY large plummet in 5 and 6.

5 and 6 were more like RTS while last game with the original Settlers formula was indeed Settlers 4 (Not counting the remake of Settlers 2)

Hey, napoleon total war hardly deserves to be called a strategy game.