Finally, this was also the first Anno game to make use of the musical talents of Dynamedion for its soundtrack, with the studio becoming our partner for Anno music ever since. So there you have it- Anno 1701 not only brought a beloved mix of city-building, trade, discovery, and warfare into the 3D dimension, but was also the first game from the same core team that is still hard at work on Anno more than 15 years later! In fact, if you were to compare the credits of Anno 17, you might notice that more than a dozen people from then are part of the Anno 1800 team, with even more working on other projects inside the Ubisoft Mainz studio. If this was a fairytale, we would be ending this history lesson with “…and they lived happily ever after”, but more accurately we should say “while they changed their name from Related Designs to Ubisoft Blue Byte and eventually Ubisoft Mainz, they happily developed all main Anno games ever since”. This would prove to be a major turning point for the Mainz-based studio, which had previously found some success with its 3D real-time titles Castle Strike and No Man’s Land.
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At the same time, publisher Sunflowers had started conversations with a German developer called Related Designs about a potential collaboration on a military-focused realtime-strategy game codenamed “Anno Wars”.Įventually, things came to a head between MAX and Sunflowers, with the latter instead opting to contract Related Designs to develop the next full Anno game. And being based in the small town of Schladming, which is best known for winter sports, recruiting outside talent was not an easy solution either. This proved to be an issue, with the tiny MAX Design team being unprepared for the challenges of 3D development. While both Anno 16 were tremendously successful, the way the industry was going was clear, with most other major strategy game franchises of the day making the jump to 3D graphics. PGlmcmFtZSBzcmM9Imh0dHBzOi8vcGxheWVyLnR3aXRjaC50di8/dmlkZW89NjQ4NTg3OTI1JmFtcDtwYXJlbnQ9YW5uby11bmlvbi5jb20mYW1wO2F1dG9wbGF5PWZhbHNlIiB3aWR0aD0iOTAwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjUwMCIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9IjAiIHNjcm9sbGluZz0ibm8iIGFsbG93ZnVsbHNjcmVlbj0iYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuIiBkYXRhLW1jZS1mcmFnbWVudD0iMSI+PC9pZnJhbWU+PC9wPg=Īs you may know, the first two Anno games were developed by a small Austrian developer called MAX Design, for their publisher Sunflowers. And of course, the UI will automatically adapt to your chosen resolution to make sure that the game remains easy to play, no matter if you chose 4k or keep it old-school at 1024×768.Īs mentioned above, Anno 1701 holds a special place, for two closely intertwined reasons: not only was it the first Anno game to be in full 3D, but also the first one to be made by the team that is today known as Ubisoft Mainz (that’s us!). Higher resolutions: As with the other three games, Anno 1701 HE will support screen resolutions all the way up to stunning 4k. In addition, there will be an option for quickmatches, and desync recovery (the error that occurs when the game state between the participating players is no longer synchronized), like what is offered in Anno 1800.
This History Edition will allow you to play via Uplay, with all the previously available options of classic Anno 1701 multiplayer coming back. Online multiplayer is back! Anno 1701 originally used the since deprecated Gamespy middleware, which means that playing the game online has not been easily possible for years. The game has been completely ported to be 64-bit only, meaning it can now take full advantage of the RAM in your PC, which helps improve performance and stability.Īnno 1701 History Edition making the lightning strike twice This is of course also true for Anno 1701 History Edition: Should you have missed our first blog on Anno 1602 History Edition, we would encourage you to give that a read first.Īs outlined before, our priority with this collection and the four games included (History Editions of Anno 1602, 1503, 17) was to maintain the classic gameplay that we have all grown to love over the past two decades, while ensuring that playing these games on your current PCs is smooth and hassle-free. But before we get into the specifics of 1701, let us recap our general approach to the Anno History Collection and the improvements that have been made across the board on all the games. Today we want to tackle Anno 1701, which is a special game to the team in many ways.
Welcome back to part two of our in-depth look at the games included in this month’s Anno History Collection.
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