Anno 1800 returns the city building franchise into the past, focusing on the industrial revolution.

<h2>Description</h2><p>Anno 1800 is the seventh main iteration of the city building simulation game, not counting spin-offs, developed by German studio <a href="/ubisoft-blue-byte/3010-1184/" data-ref-id="3010-1184">Blue Byte</a>. The game focuses primarily on workforces and the budding technological advancements of colonial times, from farming to factory work.</p><p>As with previous installations in the series, the goal is to colonize a series of islands, meet the needs of a growing and more demanding population, while eventually expanding to other settlements. Every island has a certain amount of fertile grounds for specific products, which enables a trading mechanism. Fertility can differ on the starting map, called The Old World, and a second map, South America.</p><p>There are three main segments in Anno 1800: A campaign, a sandbox mode and a multiplayer option that holds up to four players.</p><h2>Campaign</h2><figure data-align="right" data-size="small" data-img-src="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/9/91548/3077717-1anno.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-3077717" data-ratio="0.54447949526814" data-width="1585" data-embed-type="image" style="width: 1585px"><a class="fluid-height" style="padding-bottom:54.4%" href="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/9/91548/3077717-1anno.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-3077717"><img alt="No Caption Provided" src="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/9/91548/3077717-1anno.jpg" srcset="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/9/91548/3077717-1anno.jpg 1585w, https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_super/9/91548/3077717-1anno.jpg 960w, https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_medium/9/91548/3077717-1anno.jpg 480w, https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/9/91548/3077717-1anno.jpg 320w" sizes="(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px" data-width="320"></a></figure><p>Anno 1800 has a campaign that spans four chapters. The story revolves around a family business, where the death of the patriarch sets off a power struggle. The player protagonist is cast out in a family argument with their uncle, Edvard Goode. Players erect a competing business on a separate island and attempt to work off a funeral debt in the first chapter.</p><h2>Workforce</h2><p>A primary gameplay element in Anno 1800 is the separate, specific workforces that each production building requires. There are five tiers in total:</p><ol><li>Farmers</li><li>Workers</li><li>Artisans</li><li>Engineers</li><li>Investors</li></ol><p>The tiers each originate from the Farmer’s Residence building and can be upgraded by meeting specific needs of stored products and a vicinity to services, like schools.</p><p>Upgrading a tier removes the populace number from the previous tier. Workers do not perform Farmers’ duties and so on. This leads to having specific residences throughout the map, to service buildings of certain tiers.</p><h2>Newspaper</h2><p>At certain intervals, a publisher will ask the player to print a newspaper that can affect the colony’s happiness or needs. Three front page segments will affect the people in a positive or negative way. By using an influence score, the player can adjust one of the three articles, by replacing them with propaganda.</p><h2>Attractiveness</h2><p>Aside from just meeting the needs of the people, Anno 1800 also balances an attractiveness system to get people to move in. There are positive and negative elements to attractiveness.</p><p>Culture, Nature and Festivity contribute to a positive attractiveness score. Nature is the amount of open grounds and forests that are left on a certain island, while Festivity marks special events where the populace holds festivals and such. Culture can be built by placing ornaments or through the Zoo and Museum buildings, which can add more exhibition segments to their surroundings. The Zoo and Museum buildings are unlocked in the Artisan citizen tier.</p><p>Vulgarity, Pollution and Instability lead to a negative attractiveness score. Vulgarity marks things like pig farms, while Pollution contains buildings like coal-powered factories. Instability scores are events like riots or epidemics that get triggered in settlements.</p><h2>Expeditions</h2><figure data-align="right" data-size="medium" data-img-src="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/9/91548/3077719-1anno2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-3077719" data-ratio="0.50114678899083" data-width="872" data-embed-type="image" style="width: 872px"><a class="fluid-height" style="padding-bottom:50.1%" href="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/9/91548/3077719-1anno2.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-3077719"><img alt="No Caption Provided" src="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_medium/9/91548/3077719-1anno2.jpg" srcset="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/9/91548/3077719-1anno2.jpg 872w, https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_medium/9/91548/3077719-1anno2.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" data-width="480"></a></figure><p>Certain expeditions chances can appear that require a boat from the player’s fleet. Each expedition will have certain random events happen during it, which can be predicted beforehand in segments like Naval Power, Diplomacy, Hunting and so on. Boats can stock up on certain items to boost the effectiveness of these traits.</p><p>Random events play out like choose-your-own-adventure games, where choices with certain success percentages are prompted. Losing these events will lower the boat’s morale, which can lead to failure.</p><p>Returning from a successful expedition can yield special items, like Zoo and Museum exhibitions or building specialists.</p><h2>Factions</h2><p>The map has a set of different settlements with their own factions located on it. Some parties are more receptive than others, as some start with trading possibilities opened. For others, the player will need to engage in diplomacy to unlock trading rights or alliances. Factions can be influenced by flattery, offering gifts or performing quests, such as delivering certain goods or destroying enemy ships.</p><p>Pirates can also be their own faction and will start as openly hostile to players, though they can also be persuaded through this diplomacy system</p>

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FFX HD Collection
Final Fantasy X HD Collection
Final Fantasy X|X-2 HD Remaster

A collection for PS3, PS4, Vita and PC, containing Final Fantasy X International and Final Fantasy X-2 International + Last Mission featuring HD visuals and a remastered soundtrack.

<h2>Overview</h2><p>Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster is an HD compilation of <a href="//www.giantbomb.com/square-enix/3010-104/" data-ref-id="3010-104">Square Enix's</a> <a href="//www.giantbomb.com/final-fantasy-x/3030-11237/" data-ref-id="3030-11237">Final Fantasy X</a> and <a href="//www.giantbomb.com/final-fantasy-x-2/3030-8985/" data-ref-id="3030-8985">Final Fantasy X-2</a>. Specifically, the ports are based on <a href="https://www.giantbomb.com/final-fantasy-x/3030-11237/#toc-0-12" data-ref-id="3030-11237">International Version</a> and the <a href="https://www.giantbomb.com/final-fantasy-x-2/3030-8985/#toc-0-6" data-ref-id="3030-8985">International + Last Mission</a> Version respectively. This marks the first time that the International Version of Final Fantasy X has been made available in North America, and the first time that Final Fantasy X-2's International Version has been made available outside of Japan. A <a href="/playstation-4/3045-146/" data-ref-id="3045-146">PlayStation 4</a> version of the game was released both digitally and at retail on May 12, 2015. A PC version was released on Steam on May 12, 2016.</p><p>Both titles are bundled together in the PS3 release, though the Vita version is split due to the size limitations of the handheld's game cards. Final Fantasy X is sold as a packaged retail product with Final Fantasy X-2 available via an included download code. Both the Vita and PS3 versions support <a href="http://gematsu.com/2013/07/final-fantasy-x-x-2-hd-remaster-supports-cross-saves" rel="nofollow" data-ref-id="false">cross-save</a> functionality.</p><h2>Contents</h2><p>The HD Remaster contains the following:</p><ul><li>Final Fantasy X International</li><li>The Eternal Calm video</li><li>Final Fantasy X-2 International</li><li>Final Fantasy X-2 Last Mission</li><li>Compilation Credits with Bonus Audio</li></ul><p>The game includes a brand new thirty minute audio only ending/epilogue that plays during the credits of the compilation. It takes place one year after Final Fantasy X-2 and features new characters. This audio epilogue is included with both the PS3 release as well as the Vita version of Final Fantasy X-2. For the Vita versions of the remasters, Eternal Calm is included with Final Fantasy X, while the Last Mission bonus campaign comes with Final Fantasy X-2 in addition to the new audio epilogue. Both Final Fantasy X and X-2 feature independent trophy lists, each with their own platinum trophy.</p><h2>Pre-Order Bonus</h2><figure data-align="right" data-size="small" data-img-src="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/5/56735/2512900-1061427769-10141.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2512900" data-ratio="0.72708333333333" data-width="960" data-embed-type="image" style="width: 960px"><a class="fluid-height" style="padding-bottom:72.7%" href="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/5/56735/2512900-1061427769-10141.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2512900"><img alt="No Caption Provided" src="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/5/56735/2512900-1061427769-10141.jpg" srcset="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/5/56735/2512900-1061427769-10141.jpg 960w, https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_medium/5/56735/2512900-1061427769-10141.jpg 480w, https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/5/56735/2512900-1061427769-10141.jpg 320w" sizes="(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px" data-width="320"></a></figure><p>Like <a href="//www.giantbomb.com/kingdom-hearts-hd-1-5-remix/3030-39815/" data-ref-id="3030-39815">Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix</a>, fans who pre-ordered Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster on PS3 received a 24-page art book with concept art and commentary from the developers of the two games.</p><h2>Collector's Edition</h2><p>Exclusively available at the Square Enix Online Store and it includes the following:</p><ul><li>Full-size art book packaging, featuring 40 pages of imagery from the beautiful world of Spira.</li><li><i>Final Fantasy X HD Remaster</i> original soundtrack (Blu-Ray Music Disc) – Over six hours of music set to the game’s most memorable moments.</li><li>Five lithographs of iconic artwork and characters.</li></ul>

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<p>Bossgard is a boss-battler where up to 5 Vikings team up to defeat a giant player-controlled Boss.</p>

A 2D co-op shooter-platformer focused on boss battles. It is known for its unique art style, which imitates the more surreal cartoons of the 1930s.

<h2>Overview</h2><p>Cuphead is a 2D co-operative shooter/platformer that consists solely of one-on-one <a href="/boss-fight/3015-50/" data-ref-id="3015-50">boss fights</a>. The game's unique visual aesthetic draws directly from classic 1920s, 1930s animations by Disney, Fleischer Studios and Ub Iwerks. Not only does the game use animation film techniques but also marries it with an anachronistic history of video games, from Street Fighter and Contra to Space Invaders.</p><p>Cuphead is slated for a <a href="/pc/3045-94/" data-ref-id="3045-94">PC</a> release, with an <a href="/xbox-one/3045-145/" data-ref-id="3045-145">Xbox One</a> version announced at E3 2014. The developers also hope to create a version for the <a href="/sega-master-system/3045-8/" data-ref-id="3045-8">Sega Master System</a> if the game is successful enough.</p><h2>Story</h2><p>Cuphead and Mugman were gambling <a href="/satan/3005-25265/" data-ref-id="3005-25265">the Devil</a>, having lost everything and their heads as well, the Devil makes them a deal. Retrieve some items for him and they're square.</p><h2>Production</h2><p>Brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauser had spent quite some time experimenting with how it would be possible to achieve the look of an animated cartoon from the 30s. Three whole months were spent just on developing the aesthetic 'old-timey' feel. For the majority of the process most of the art and animation is painstakingly done frame by frame by hand. On a regular basis the pair had to draw, ink, color and animate 200-350 frames a week, eventually hiring a small staff of nine to help.</p><p>Initially the pair had tested hand painting animation cels, which would then be scanned in and animated with the filters effects added. When they realised that with the multiple filter layers applied, they couldn't tell the difference between hand painted and digitally coloured. And due to the already lengthy production of the game they decided to go with digitally colouring them with Photoshop.</p><p> </p>

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Embark is a base building game where players have to manage a group of colonists in a fight for survival.

<p>Katana ZER0 is a fast paced neo-noir action platformer, focusing on tight, instant-death acrobatic combat, and a dark 80's neon aesthetic. Aided with your trusty katana, the time manipulation drug Chronos and the rest of your assassin's arsenal, fight your way through a fractured city, and take back what's rightfully yours.</p>

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