The Settlers: Rise of an Empire Preview @ CVG

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Preview: CVG
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You're excited about a Settlers game?" The Gamer staffer who made this preconception-addled statement shall remain nameless, but it's a sign of just how far Blue Byte's venerable strategy-management series has fallen in the eyes of gamingdom. Settlers hasn't really been Settlers for a while now.

Blue Byte know it. When producer Benedikt Grindel visited us with the latest build of Rise of an Empire, he admitted that the trad-RTS approach of the last game wasn't what Settlers was about. This one, apparently, is.