The game starts out with a pretty clever way of acclimating you to the game: a story mode.

The game has its fair share of quirks and problems, but none of these really feel attributable to the DS itself. That said, while the DS may not be the most conducive gaming platform to deep, complex strategy games, Dawn of Discovery does an excellent job of adapting to the hardware and delivering a surprisingly entertaining strategy experience. But for the most part, the development team has done a great job here adapting a PC series to the confines of the DS. Dawn of Discovery on the DS is essentially a DS version of Anno 1701, obviously scaled to fit the DS. Civilization Revolution is the only game that comes most readily to mind when thinking of historical strategy games on the DS, and that title was lacking in more ways than one.ĭawn of Discovery is known outside North America as Anno 1701, so this is not an entirely new series that is to say, Sunflower Interactive knows what they're doing in terms of strategy games. While the strategy genre encompasses a significant number of modern releases, historical strategy games in the vein of the Total War series or Empire Earth are few and far between. Dawn of Discovery is one of the genre's newest releases on the DS, and if strategy games are of particular enjoyment to you, then you owe it to yourself to check this game out. Turn-based strategy titles like Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics are among my favorite games ever, I still enjoy RTSs like Empire Earth many years after they've been released.

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