| America | 
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| From: Data Becker
Category: Video Games
Buy Used: $6.50
Used (6) from $6.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 10567
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.9 x 1.7
Model: 10003
UPC: 680466100034
EAN: 0680466100034
ASIN: B00004Y5TQ
Release Date: January 24, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Cd Rom only no box , light surface scratches worked fine
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Amazon.com Product Description
Why just remember the Alamo when you can reenact it? America is a real-time strategy game set in the Wild, Wild West; 30 different missions are available, each with four levels of difficulty. Players control the destiny of a group of people--Native Americans, Mexicans, outlaws, settlers, or American soldiers--and attempt to lead them to prosperity. To accomplish this, players will have to build armies, prepare military formations and battle strategies, form alliances and treaties, manage morale and experience, use the land effectively, and take advantage of their groups' special abilities. For example, Native Americans are the only ones who can swim. Horses play a major part of the game--riders can mount and dismount horses, and players can steal, catch, or trade for horses. There is multiplayer support for up to eight players, including network play.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 BUY SOMETHING ELSE May 9, 2006
The game was alright at the start but got old fast.
 I really liked this game. January 31, 2003
It is very much in the vein of "Age of Empires". I had no problems running it on a P3 350 MHZ running Windows 2000 ADVANCED SERVER of all things. It also ran on 2000 Pro well. The one thing I would change is what the characters say. I got tired of the Indian archers saying something that sounded like "It's a zebra! It's mine!"I really wish you could get the cheats like they had in Age of Empires. The Indians were really at a disadvantage when played against any of the other groups, so a couple of '65 Corvairs with rocket launchers would have been nice to take out the cannon factories...
review December 5, 2001
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
America is a action and strategy game where you pick to be either americans, outlaws, mexicans, and Native Americans. The best way to find out about the game is look at the table of contents in your booklet which tells about objects characters and how to do things. This game only allows views from preety high up where you can see your uniforms and objects good but not their faces. Drawings of objects are simple but some parts of it are complex.Each group has different kind of specialties. Which are shown on their website displayed in the back of the book.Their aren't a ton of people you control just about between 20 and 80 when you start a mission. Every campaign has 6 levels. You have to play them a lot to get them. To get food you either plant it where instead of a harvest you just get 15 units of food after the woman scrapes the field 33 times. Fields aren't complex. You chop wood to so you can have enough to give supplies to a army man to have him train. Depending on how good of a player the person you're training is that will be how long it takes for you to train him. You dont actually train you just give him all the supplies he needs and then you click on a picture of that guy for you to wait a while and then he will come out of that place. You have to build your homes and other things. I dont want to give you more because you can get much more in the book. By the way do easy for every level because it is very hard to beat.
 Please... Stop the pain. October 10, 2001
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
America is another example of why Data Becker should change their strategy from making video games, to not making video games.
 An Excellent Strategy Game Worth The Time and Money October 10, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
America is a wonderful RTS game. Forget all the ridiculous comparisons to AOE2. For god sakes, Ive been playing AOE2 for almost 2 years, this is nothing like it. Im not even going to bother to compare it in this review too much. America has a WONDERFUL theme, they recreated the feel of the time excellently and made it very fun. There are four different groups to play as, The Native Americans (my favorite, they can swim without using boats and have Medicine Men who have interesting powers similar to Tzar's wizards and they are much better than AOE2s monks), The Outlaws, The Mexicans, and the United States. All of these civilizations are VERY unique, all have their own units and share none of the same. All have cool technology and buildings, all have cool differences that make each a fun time to play with. Each civilization has a campaign with excellent Voice Briefings and on occasion a beautiful cinema (some of the best cinemas I have seen, look very interesting). The game ships with a VERY difficult AI (EVEN ON VERY EASY HEHEHE) that can play on scenario maps and stuff so the game doesnt get boring if you are playing alone. The game has very good replay value!! The expansion is going to come out this month (October 2001) and will include a bunch of new stuff to drool for! This game is very complicated as well, it has things like Travois, robberies, dances, mining where the people actually go INTO THE DARN MINES!!, and camoflauge for the Natives. It is all balanced, ok so the natives have some weak units, so what, give them swim and rob and camoflauge and you will have plenty of horses and guns in no time hahaha. Get this game if you love real time strategy. It is a bit more complicated compared to AOE2 so you should get that if ur a casual RTS fan. This game is so FUN!! You can even pack up your indian village into wagons and move it to another spot on the map just to make your enemy even more confused!! HAHA ( I have a friend who I play online with haha ).
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