Anno 2070 debut trailer gets divisive

Looks goooood.

Looks very very good.

the thing that is great about it that you can choose ecological technology or standard industrial environment. This is something new in Sci-Fi setting.

All this made me think about was, how much I want Command and Conquer Generals 2 XD

Mhm, i really like the idea of choosing between ecological and industrial. The voiceover is bad.

Deal with today’s global challenges? Christ, could you sound any lamer?

It looks like Anno, which is definitely a good thing, but it also looks very black and white. I don’t like preachy games and movies, they usually end up extremely shallow.

Preachy Games? Name a few.

@6 Don’t put me on the spot like that

Really, there are a lot of “edugames” out there that take subjects like the environment and massacre it for the sake of looking like the holiest of holies. Most morality-based games are pretty preachy.

I just don’t like developers distilling things into that sort of blind and fairly cheap either/or mentality.

A lot of citybuilders do a fine job, but this seems a bit more focused on making a distinction on the environment.

The truth is, society doesn’t allow changes to production while going green, and that’s the real challenge. A country like China is struggling to put money in peoples pockets, and convert a gargantuan population of essentially uneducated sweatshopworkers into a middleclass. There’s no way they can advance that, without going through what we did back in the 1800′s with suffocating smokestacks, toxic rivers, and reckless dumping.

I was thinking about Avatar watching that thing. That movie should’ve been nothing more than a 3 minute public service announcement.

@7: I think the game won’t be preachy, i don’t think it will judge you if you go full industrial. I’m actually excited, been a long time since i played an ANNO Game.

“There’s no way they can advance that, without going through what we did back in the 1800′s with suffocating smokestacks, toxic rivers, and reckless dumping.” Don’t worry, they already do that. Especially the last part.

Just like we did a century ago

Or stick to doing in India, or whereever people aren’t looking.

I hope it won’t be preachy. I would’ve liked more factions to kinda change it up though. This looks a lot like “Fairyland” versus “Hellworld”.

@9: Well, that’s realistic, isn’t it?

@10 Touché

With the slight caveat that Mr Wong now has a television, and maybe even a bachelor degree. His grandfather never had a shot at that before the smokestacks went up.

It’s all about nuance.