Whether you’re zoomed all the way out for a birds-eye view of your empire or opting for a close-up view of the action on street level, there’s a lot of detail to be enjoyed. What’s perhaps most striking about Anno 1800 Console Edition is how fantastic it looks. Most tasks are surprisingly easy to get to grips with, and if you are struggling, extra help is often available via the menu. As you progress, more industries will unlock – providing you put in the work. That means building houses and laying the foundations of some simple industries. Following a brief introduction on how to move the camera, players are pretty much let loose to figure things out for themselves. You’re not bogged down with tutorials, however. Playing through the campaign of Anno 1800 Console Edition, you’re eased in gently, with a series of simple tasks. But we’ve been pleasantly surprised with how easy it has been to learn the ropes, making spending time with Anno 1800 Console Edition an enjoyable task indeed. Sure, you’ll likely fumble a little bit to begin with: accessing certain menus requires a push of a trigger, a nudge of the d-pad and a bit of searching around. But Ubisoft has done a great job of making Anno 1800 feel logical and intuitive on console. It’s why so many similar games never make it to console: porting a workable control scheme to a controller is often too complex a task. Typically, games of this type are heavy in menus, and having a mouse and cursor to navigate and click around makes sense. The city building/strategy genre is one that’s well-suited to PC gaming. We need to spend more time with the game and progress further through its campaign before we can give our complete and final review. This is a review-in-progress based on our initial impressions of Anno 1800 Console Edition. Four years later, it’s finally made its way to consoles – and so far, it seems very much worth the wait. Combining strategy and city-building, Anno 1800 has been a mainstay for PC gamers since 2019.
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