Cossacks - Intro

Developer: GSC Game World
Publisher: Strategy First and cdv Software Entertainment
Platform: Windows
Release date: April 24, 2001 (March 2001 in Ukrain)
Genre: Real-time strategy
Modes: Single, Multiplayer

System requirements:
Pentium 200 MHz CPU, 32 Mb RAM, 1 Mb Video RAM, 200Mb HDD, 8x CD-ROM, Sound card, DirectX 6.0.

Good Video (and horrible music) about the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXBcPgEDNSY

Description (English):
Cossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy computer game for Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. It was released on April 24, 2001. The game has an isometric view and is set in the 17th and 18th centuries of Europe. It features sixteen playable nations each with its own architectural styles, technologies and units.

Players must avoid famine and engage in army expansion, building construction and simple resource gathering. Mission scenarios range from conflicts such as Thirty Years' War to the War of the Austrian Succession, and renowned for the seemingly infinite number of units players may control. This ability set it apart from other games of the time such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth. Even today the only games that can come close to comparing to Cossacks in the area of unit count are found in the Total War series.

Cossacks is a game which allows the user to gain strategy skills and even pick up some relative history of that period by the inclusion of a comprehensive encyclopedia. This top selling title has won two awards and was positively favoured by a majority of reviewers.

Beschreibung (Deutsch):
Cossacks ist eine vom ukrainischen Entwickler GSC Game World entwickelte Computerspieleserie, die sich relativ nahe an der realen europäischen Geschichte orientiert.

Das Spiel wurde weltweit über 2,5 Millionen mal verkauft.

Das Titelbild des Spieles basiert auf dem Gemälde „Die Saporoger Kosaken schreiben dem türkischen Sultan einen Brief" von Ilja Jefimowitsch Repin.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Cossacks
• Казаки
• Games
• Strategie
• Strategy
• cdv