Every country has a unique color to id their units, and every native faction have their own buildings. The graphics are well drawn, kind of what you would expect from a turn based strategy game of the 90's, and this windows port uses the same graphics the old colonization used.

It may sound a little hard at first, but once you get the idea, you will love this game. And the economics models is deep enough to amuse you for hours thinking about the best way to play a turn. There are many American native races also (use a scout as much as possible, it will help you, a lot!), and you can always trade with the natives or you country (if you haven't declared independence of course).The AI DOES KNOW about tactics hehe, and seems to develop strong armies faster than you can usually, so you have to use your diplomatic skills at first, and maintain a steady grow to think going to war with anyone. There is a difficulty level option, and you can always choose the country you will represent from the start (the netherlands and spain seem to be the most powerful countries given their advantages, but that's for me hehe). Seasoned strategy gamers will find it very similar to previous strategy games, and is not that difficult to get into it. If you are not into strategy games, you will have a rough time learning the many aspects seen in this game, but giving it some time, you will get hooked up. To begin with, the gameplay, is just smooth, a great turn based strategy game.

And this time, it was not the whole mankind history like in civilization, but just the colonization process given in the Americas, and let's be honest, playing against any of the monarchies found in the game is fun hehe. At first, colonization proved that Sid Meier was not a good game maker, but one of the greatest (including the developing teams he has worked with). Games that recreate a historical time of mankind are always welcome.

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