Anno 1404 – Dawn of Discovery
Anno 1404 or also known as Dawn of Discovery is a brilliant video game that blends in City-Building, Real-time Strategy, MMO and Economic elements beautifully. The game features both medieval and renaissance era settings and allows you to build your own settlements, explore islands, construct buildings, get into diplomatic ties with neighboring settlements or wage wars against the enemies in order to conquer their lands or to defend your own. The city building element of the game allows you to build massive structures like monuments, research labs, and other facilities and rule over them, maintain them etc. The economic element allows you to set up trade routes and economically grow your settlement, acquire necessary resources and manage them wisely. Just like other games in the Anno Series, Anno 1404 or Dawn of Discovery offers a similar Sandbox style gameplay, wonderful visual details and other great things to make you love this game. Try it out and it’ll amaze you with all of what it has to offer.
#1 Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 is an extremely wonderful RTS video game like Supreme Commander. The game is one of the most popular and well-liked addition to the Command and Conquer series and offers a similar game-play and mechanics to its predecessors. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 takes you to World War 2 era and allows you to part of the massive conflict between the Soviet Union, Empire of the Rising Sun and their Allies, choose one of the powerful sides and begin making strategies that will eventually write the fate of world. Dominate and seize the power by simply building your own bases, collecting resources and by conquering the enemy installations. The unique RTS element of the game lets you gather up enough resources, build your defenses and make strategies, raise immensely powerful armies to defeat your enemies, attack on your enemies from ground, air and sea and dominate where ever you go. Amazingly addictive and long campaigns, combats, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play are the key parts of this wonderful game. For a great Supreme Commander like experience, you should totally try this one out.
#2 Populous: The Beginning
Populous: The Beginning a wonderful blend of MM, RTS and City-Building elements and provides with a marvelous gameplay similar to Anno series games. In the beginning, Populous: The Beginning allows you to pick up a tribe as you native identity, make alliances with other powerful tribes and figures and embark on epic missions filled with puzzling challenges. The game is set on different planets in the galaxy and lets you lead mighty expeditions to different origins, conquer them by defeating the native beings, construct buildings, gather up resources and manage them wisely, raise mighty armies and rule the worlds around you. The strategic element of the game allows you to manage your troops, build your defenses and defend your settlements, bases and resources and turn your keeps into huge strongholds. With epic settings, brilliant visuals, engaging gameplay and a lot of other cool things, Populous: The Beginning is a great game to play and enjoy.