Anno 2205 Review

[@JoeTheSpaceGuy]

Why all the dislikes?? He clearly said the game had performance issues in different camera modes... It's not IGN's fault the game is poorly optimized... I think this was a good review.

[@singed420snowinit9]

The problem was the score, 7.0 is a good score and this game does not deserve that.

[@smokin0moron]

+YOLO JOE Ign viewers are basically a hivemind that hates anything to do with Ign videos. It's really weird. They'll get angry at IGN for even the most pointess things from the Ign worker playing the game with an 'average skill level' to reviews being scored weird even though they have different reviewers, and of course spamming the same 7.2/10 too much whatever in every review because that's such a funny joke to hear more than once. IGN's community is the most hypocritical, cancerous community i've ever seen, don't trust the dislike bars since it's mostly undeserved.

[@ru55ianR3AP3R]

+YOLO JOE Because the review and the score don't match. It's like made the review then just slapped a random number on it and called it a day. Just lazy. True that they did point out some legitimate flaws but that's not why people are disliking it.

[@Onyxx98]

no it runs on my one and an half year old pc on extrem settings perfectly fine he just uses a crappy pc

[@happy14945]

+HaukeR hm. i have a 1 year old 1500€ gaming pc. and i have the same issues as ign.

[@RavensCloudEmpath]

The game starts with the best game intro video I have ever seen...I am bad, clicking away all game intro videos usualy if there is an option...not this one...Those shuttles landing and taking off...it looks absolutely staggering on my 40 inch business monitor....wish my Father who was a great Sci-fi fan could have seen this... I am completely blown away by it every time...Thank You...what a performace...

[@LycanReaper]

My eyes!!... so much LAGG!!

[@Theoldman27]

Hearing the review and seeing the score don't seem to match.

[@ru55ianR3AP3R]

+theDamon2781 It's IGN, they'll praise the game but give it a low score or nitpick at some flaws and make it seem like a major issue. I never did trust game reviewers like IGN, Gamespot, etc.

[@pattyshack19]

+witchhunt301 If they didn't nitpick, most games would have 8+ scores unless they were bugfests

[@ru55ianR3AP3R]

pattyshack19 watch IGN's review on Metro and you''l see what I'm talking about.

[@apache1234657]

+witchhunt301 who do you trust?

[@lavll88]

+theDamon2781 the game doesn't have any marketing behind it. what did you expect?

[@durodesduvo8424]

optimized like shit

[@sd19delta16]

+Durodes Duvo He should turn off V-Sync. It would really help with the stuttering.

[@sd19delta16]

Some Name Yeah, but it's either stuttering and input lag over screen tearing. Unless you have G-Sync.

[@TheRabbitFear]

+Durodes Duvo it's amazingly optimized even without crossfire enabled I get 60fps easy on max settings (except 2x AA)

[@sd19delta16]

TheRabbitFear What's your specs?

[@TheRabbitFear]

sd19delta i7 4820k 16gb ram r9 295x2

[@Master_Arthius]

Something tells me the Annoverse could be in the Haloverse, dunce there are no lasers or warp drive yet (which was created in the 23rd century in the Haloverse). The Earth is united and humanity is looking at the stars, with a common goal, and united. The buildings also look modernish. I don't know. I am probably the only one who sees these parallels.

[@redfox4561]

I love the Anno series and I'm looking forward to playing this but I do agree with the IGN review somewhat...biggest problem with what I've seen so far is like the video said there are not a lot of differences in the buildings and there is nothing to work for once you colonize the moon...they really need to add some massive monument towers or something that you can pour all of your resources into late game and really make your skyline shine, maybe add in some new housing models also or at the very least add more ornamental buildings...also where are the fire stations and hospitals on Earth?? does nothing burn in 2205? does no one get sick or hurt either? Adding more buildings to fill your cities with are a must for the future of this game in my opinion. The story and combat are another issue, although if they added more buildings and stuff to do end game the loss of the combat that was in the last game wouldn't hurt so much...Still though I'll forever miss having my fleet of warships patrol my island nations and dropping tons of nukes on cities (including my own) :(

[@88Opportunist]

This thing looks like it wants a 24-core 12 Ghz processor and then some

[@adambelial7583]

1404 eill be forever my favorite in the series c:

[@MrJeffer88]

1404 venice got crazy! :)

[@ApurvaSukant]

Smooth video, like IGNs smooth decline and relevance.

[@dtanobo]

they have 16 million subscribers youre capping

[@alexandermalmstedtraag2612]

Ubisoft Nope-timization, where have I heard this before?

[@ThaBamboozler]

Sounds like something to look forward to in a Steam Sale.

[@RBRT02]

This game should be a storygame and not a citybuilder

[@lulubeloo]

the game feels great at the start but it has a short fuse when it comes to maintaining your interest.

[@Yamyatos]

You should be able to play stutterfree if you turn down MSAA from 8 to 2 or off and put the game on high instead of super high or what it's called. The last graphics setting is like -50% performance, and MSAA is about that again..

[@orCane]

"Too little motivation beyond profit", "...culminates in my greedy investors wanting faster quantum computers". Sounds like a perfect representation of actual capitalism.

[@happy14945]

i have to i fully agree with ign on that one. i played the game myself and reached the endgame as well. there really is little joy in the endgame as the moon gives you unlimited power sourced as long as you have enough income. the best way to icrease your income is getting more inhabitants. the module system is good, but the way you get the special resourced is rater tedious. after you have played your first sea battle you have seen them all. and sidequests are always pull this attach that, pay minerals or kill something and collect find an object on the map. each quest can be solved in under 2 minutes.

[@singed420snowinit9]

While everything you were saying was perfectly fine and pretty accurate I cant agree with the score at all, it makes no sense that you bash a game so much (and rightfully so) yet still give it a high score, make no mistake 7.0/10 is a high score, that is a good game score but this game clearly doesn't deserve that. Some reviewers need to learn more about how scores are given, this game is average, 5.0/10 would've been a much better score.

[@seandennis8911]

the game itself of amazing, if the rig can handle it, it deserved its rating

[@singed420snowinit9]

Sean Dennis So you're just going to ignore every single other flaw that was mentioned?

[@seandennis8911]

Kitty Kat I play city builders for one reason, to build cities, nothing else, besides people need to figure out whether to believe ign or not

[@singed420snowinit9]

Sean Dennis Sorry but there is no way you can defend the crap in this game, this is an average city builder, mediocre at best.

[@hawlitakerful]

+Kitty Kat As a city simulation itself it's not bad. It somewhat feels like what SimCity would have wanted to be. For me it's not really worth it because i always enjoyed the Competition with the AI for islands and so on the balance between military and economics ... sadly they took those parts out. So my score would be something like "whyevenbother/10" I think someone who played the previous titles only without any AI players with the goal to build a city as big as possible will not find alot of those flaws that relevant. and with the fact that it is sure the biggest anno probably give it a high rating. so ny question is to you is there a point in arguing about a score?

[@Sladey93]

It looks like a really good game but it really needs to be optimised better. Once they patch it, I will be buying the hell out of this game! :)

[@alfie9879]

The like to dislike ratio always spoils what the reviewer thinks before the video has even started.

[@MrMellek]

Are the nukes as great as in the last one?

[@rafaelbrustolin4687]

Yeah, the lack of late game objectives is something i really dislike

[@UntitledGameShow]

I would love to know the specs of the pc used to play this game for the review. smh just watching this hurt my eyes.

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

i know its 5 years old review but its so on point, game is awesome just lacks endgame and story, always dreaming about game mix of anno and no mans sky with storyline.. maybe someday

[@sakariawarsame894]

Imagine getting this in my recommended 5 years later

[@racionador]

the big mistake of ubisoft was take away the medieval theme from anno

[@Raven1024]

I don't think so, I still liked 2070. Haven't played 2205 yet, with the performance issues I was waiting for a sale.

[@ImperialEarthEmpire]

aside from optimization, almost all the bad things in 2205 this guy speak of already in 2070... so i dont know what this guy talking bout...

[@theenlightenedmisterpeabod1515]

Seems like a fair 7.0

[@Chronas9.9]

i wonder if mods will be possible. it just all the buildings look the same

[@simplydifferent7712]

It's more like Anno 3205 because build like that on earth AND the moon a lot will not going fast, only because the money (financial mill) we can't build that fast in less then 200 years from now. But it's a nice idea. And we don't have railways anymore like now, but all pods and Hyperloops and interactive roadways.

[@majinraptor]

It might be possible. You do realise 200 years ago people rode horses right? Now we have rovers in Mars. It;s impossible to predict what's possible and whats not.

[@VIPEFFECT]

If only the road layout was not so boring...

[@draxx01920]

This game plays well on LiquidSky if you don't have a great gaming rig like me.

[@Sixeye_]

Maybe they will patch the game when its released. If this was a EA game it would of got 9/10 so they could keep getting more free shit from EA. I have a feeling when i play this it will be pretty good.

[@_multiverse_]

Did you swap out your cpu with a potato?

[@ЕмилЕфендулов]

Should have slammed the score for the bad optimization job.

[@pcgamingmasterrace9649]

This is the only Anno I've played. Didn't like it much. The combat is dreadfully simplistic and there's just not much strategy or management in the game's city development.

[@Mr.DMZ.]

Was his GPU a potato or something?

[@fightwithonefilms]

Choppy playback not even a con in verdict

[@Raven1024]

Ouch...I had totally forgotten to look into this but those performance issues...

[@marcoverdenasroma83]

is the future of city skylines

[@VIPEFFECT]

+Padre Kafy but with bad roads

[@Thurrak]

Lunar natives? wut?

[@Pienimusta]

Ubicancer.. but question is.. how the game doesnt have any towers you have to climb..

[@BLVDKillz]

This is IGN people! Why you complaining? lol

[@Ultranationalist941]

I'll wait for a steam sale.

[@ADucksOpinion]

my pc would NEVER be able to play this.. junk

[@GameTwoLive]

better Rating than need for speed

[@BassTechnologic]

The reviewer's voice sounds like the voice when you're commanding the military ships.

[@Grim821]

wait.........wtf are "lunar natives?"

[@whatsuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu]

The people in the Anno universe who originally colonized the moon

[@Illier1]

+Grim821 In that world before the events of the game, between 2070 and 2205, people were sent to the Moon. Soon, however, they felt detached from Earth and declared independence.

[@777starlight777]

it's much better than 7.0

[@Beef1188]

How low Anno has fallen... Outdeveloped by indie games if you choose to overlook graphics!

[@Pterry23real]

7.0 for a buisness simulator without any noticable replayability? Very strange.

[@daz9882]

Turn off AA. boost a lot

[@williamwetherington844]

still in beta testing mode and looking for programmers to fix their bugs. brought to early to market. one should checkout anno 1800 or earlier.

[@MapleLegoProductionz]

Oh god my eyes DX, stop motion Anno.

[@itaybron]

does it have ungodly drm like the anno game before this?

[@0A01amir]

+itaybron thank god NO

[@TheRabbitFear]

+itaybron uplay is drm, you have to be online to play it

[@itaybron]

TheRabbitFear gross.

[@0A01amir]

TheRabbitFear works 100% offline, that was anno 2070 with it's shitty always online DRM which they removed it 1 year after but this one is only have udon'tplay drm and you can launch the game offline.

[@HKdagreat]

This game is addictive as shittt!!

[@zeighy]

7/10 too much water

[@jayb198083]

Just bought the game, the patch wont update and after 2 hours of messing around I still cant play this game. Beware of UPlay, I will never buy anything from UB Soft again.

[@j-mystjoe7293]

I score ign 10/10 ign

[@erikbreaman9124]

It should be noted that what causes lag on games GTA IV, V, CIV V, CIV BE, ANNO * are the CPU threads and clocks not RAM or graphics. Typically GPU only restricts view quality and rarely FPS

[@PatrickDJGaming]

I wonder if they looked at this game from a Anno players perspective... this game is not worth that 7 its more like a 4.5

[@aedivian]

How did this game recieve such a good score when most of your feedback is negative?

[@zentali-meditation]

I thought my battery was low, turns out the recording is choppy

[@MrJeffer88]

sooooooo standdard anno games... coooool... until it's not. but cool anyway. and who says the world won't evolve into what anno predicted.. with anno 2040, and now with anno 2205. I'm looking forward too playing anno 2205! :)

[@MrSpy13011]

What all the dislikes?

[@TobiPlayHD]

0:50 - that's because Anno is not a city building simulator.

[@marceloscarfreire7519]

The game is amazing! I love it!

[@Proh3dsh0t]

i was having so much fun with anno2205 but then those stupid ships missions ruined it for me...

[@Onyxx98]

anno is a city builder not a combat ship thing whatever you can ignore the missions

[@Proh3dsh0t]

+HaukeR no idea i could skip them thks man

[@hassanhaydar6880]

This game deserves atleast one point off for its bad performance also the fps is in the top left corner?

[@TheRabbitFear]

+xTheMercenary 1 the performance is fine he's barely meeting the recommended requirements, my rig exceeds them by a long way, and I have no FPS problems

[@roller4312]

My eyes hurt while watching this "review"

[@tetsuokenpachi]

Another low budget shovelware PC game... Figures.

[@Skisful]

I am very disappointed by this game. I was expecting something at least as fun to play as previous parts.

[@kostasael9090]

anno 1404 an 2070 are very good bont like anno 2205

[@Foundprodigal]

Honestly this looks incredible

[@cayseecabreza2792]

alot of lag for a video....

[@lanesplitter87]

Good ol' Oobi Soft. Silly Yank tsh tsh.

[@mejorxz123]

Sim City 2205

[@zackcarl7861]

It gets boring real quickw

[@jersn5560]

Hmm I just wondered this is AD 2205 and yet the game did not include Mars Colonies. wait... yeah right. DLC

[@Master_Arthius]

Mars was colon is edge by Global Trust but then was abandoned.

[@codanh1]

oh gawd watching this gives me seizures.....

[@4tech69]

Without making a single comment on the contrast of this release versus others in this iconic yet niche series, you have failed as a reviewer. You have failed the series, it's fans, the public that hopes to trust you and the industry you claim to work for. Enjoy that.

[@Raven1024]

It doesn't really matter. I love the Anno games but he's not reviewing the series...he's reviewing this game. And it has such a niche audience I can understand just doing it as a standalone review.

[@juliogarcia2515]

Very deep 😏😏😏😏😏

[@yooanto9465]

Very great game

[@GamerGameBR]

Spore

[@shaq1014]

trash game.7/10 really?oh fakk 3/10 is deal

[@luismanrique2723]

me gustaría que saliera para cansolas

[@johannesdolch]

This is unwatchable

[@theenlightenedmisterpeabod1515]

Frame Rates are crap

[@seandennis8911]

Because it's a massive game, it needs an outrageously powerful rig

[@ihojannllarrosa3556]

esta bueno

[@omgilovesteak6484]

o/

[@mouykhshabon]

What is the shit you're playing this on

[@TheHonourableGrandMasterJay]

This game is running like shit on your rig. Get a proper CPU. What are you running this on, a PS4?! LOL!

[@jayasimhaarya]

Ha ha ...LOL at all the pissed off pc players

[@robertsnaith6697]

first

[@GONZOLISM]

Looks like a really crap game ✌🏻️