So, you’ve been bossed about by some jumped-up corporate tit that’s treated you like dirt and now you’ve got good reason to mess up his precious two-year plan that he keeps going on about. It’s not been tested, it’s likely to break the dam, flood the town behind it, cause untold chaos and some other stuff you’re meant to care about. The last few instructions we had to add, just to keep ourselves interested.Ībout two thirds of the way through the first level, a well-meaning and humble engineer comes to you saying that the turbine is over-specced for the design.
ANNO 2070 TUTORIAL MISION SERIES
This is a dull series of micro-managed menial tasks: build this, then this, build something else, do this thing that the game’s pointing at, make some tea, wheel around the office on Joe’s silly ball-chair, discuss whether human and large-dog faeces might look identical.
The main crux is that you’re tasked to build some super-efficient turbine thingy for the hydroelectric dam to increase energy production, and you need to build a new settlement to house the workers that are going to do this for you. This continues into the first mission, where some corporate shill bosses you around like a minion: go there, fetch this, oh well done you’ve completed a basic task. The most fun was this one-off escort mission. It’s like the worst game-show ever: do you want to be a) an irresponsibly capitalist corporate puppet, or b) a human being? Tough choice.
The game purports to let you make your own choice, but the bias in the delivery of the two factions is palpable. The imagery of the two factions is stark too – Eden Initiative cities have trees, curved buildings and look lovely, while Global Trust settlements look like dull, grey industrial slums. A slow, patronising clap for the first person to see where this is going. The intro video makes you aware of this, as well as the fact that there's a potential conflict of interest awaiting you – the corporate Global Trust is hell-bent on securing all the natural resources and energy production on the planet, while the Eden Initiative has ultra-modern green technologies. In the future, the ice caps have melted, the coast is flooded and natural resources are big business. It’s pretty obvious that Anno 2070 is set in the future the name's a dead giveaway. Anno 2070 Demo Impressions Publisher: Ubisoft
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