Anno 1503 The New World V1.3.1 J2ME (240×320)

Captain… Pirates ahead!!!

Anno 1503 - The new World screenshot on mobile phone
Sir, there is a ship on the port. Who are they, which flag are they carrying? Sir, it’s a pirate ship and they are closing up! Rudder 20 grads right, all cannons get ready! Sir, they are opening fire, we were hit into the hull! All cannons on the left side, answer the enemy’s FIREEE! – In this way the atmosphere of the game Anno 1503 could be shortly described.

Anno 1503 is a game (like the name prompts) from the early 16-th century (times of sail ships and pirates) and combines together 3 different kinds of games. On the beginning of the game you choose: Either you can be a pirate and under a black flag with bones cruise the sea and loot other ships or you can be a merchant and make your money by trading the goods between cities and profit on the difference of prices (but who can say that a merchant cannot take his ship and cannons and make something “extra” by looting other ships for their gold and cargo) or you can just start the game as an mayor of an small village and trough your economic skills make your village a city and get rich and famous. The richer you are and the more people live in your city the higher is your rank (e.g. trader, nobleman, baron…) and with each rank you get access to more profitable goods to produce (clothes, alcohol,…).
About the third kind of game I must say this: It is one of the most complex and perhaps also first true building strategy for the mobile phones with really functional relations between supply and demand. By this, I don’t want to lower the other two kinds of game types; they are great in their own way and much more attractive for people who love more action in the game. The game saves itself when you quit. What we have seen on several Nokia S60 devices is that the game crashes after a certain time because the memory of the handset is full. Very annoying, so save regularly!

Graphics of the game is just great. Ships and cites in the action and action/strategy part are well designed, cannon balls splash in the water or explode if a ship is hit. The strategy part of the game (where you play the mayor of a city) is more “icon like” but all icons (or small images) are well painted and also well descriptive. Just take a look at the screenshots.

Control of this game is very easy and it gives you no problem to control your ship and pirate, as you will like. Keys 4 and 6 turn your ship left/right and with keys 7 and 9 you shoot your cannons left/right. I must also mention the great work the authors did around the help in the strategy (mayor of the village) kind of game. If you are in a menu in this kind of game and open the help, you will be given plenty of useful information about the tabs on the screen and „by what you do what“.

Anno 1503 is an exceptional game with very strong gaming atmosphere. For this, for the “3 games in one“ aspect, for the wonderful graphics, for the easy control and also for the very well done help, this game gets a mobile games award. Anyone who likes the romantic of the old sailboats and pirate times this game a is must. For anyone other this is just a very good game.

An old game I couldn’t find here, enjoy it!

Dony Forget to Hit Guys!:thumbup:

Download :

anno_1503_the_new_world_v131.rar (192 KB)