1602 A.D. (Jewel Case) - PC

I don’t even know how to rate this. I LOVE this game and owned it years ago. It’s fun and completely addictive.....so the game itself is definitely 5 stars......IF you can get it to work, and so far, I haven’t. According to the description, there should be no problem installing and playing this game on my current laptop. The description LIES. We’ve spent DAYS at this and have dug into every dark corner of my computer’s operating system trying to find something compatible and the game still won’t work. I’ve now had to beg the help of my daughter, a computer specialist in the tech department at WVU. Her current theory is that in order to play this game, I’ll have to revert my laptop to an older version of Windows. That’s fine with me, since it’s a cheapo Dell I picked up at Walmart and I’ve never liked it anyway. But for those of you with more $$$$ invested in your current system, I wouldn’t bother buying this game, unless you can, and are willing, to throw in some extra $$$$ for an old computer to play it on. The same goes for the newer edition of this game, 1701 AD, which I also purchased. 🤷🏼‍♀️

My husband played this as a child so it was fun to track it down and have him play it as an adult. He enjoyed it just wished the graphics were better. :)

wonderful

It's an old game so very glitchy. Had to do some fiddling to get it to run at all. But fun once you get it working.

I bought this game for my husband because he just loves these types of games. The picture quality and sound were wonderful. This game would keep him entertained for hours and he would lose track of time. This game involves a lot of thinking and strategy. Who doesn't love a game where they have control but then whatever decisions you make you will also see the positive or negative consquences of your actions. Get ready to put your thinking cap on!

Did I play the same game the other reviewers did? Seriously?Maybe it's just the version I got, but this game is far too flawed to enjoy on any kind of consistent basis. Commands are not detailed in the manual or on the tutorial (for example, how to QUIT). There is no ingame help system, either. There is no explanation for important concepts like question marks over buildings in the tutorial.. the manual just says to look at them, decide what to do, and handle it. Overall, the tutorial was almost useless as a way of learning the game. Each segment of it appeared to last about 2 minutes and provide about 10 text lines of material, most of it encouragement. The manual, incidentally, can only be retrieved from the CD using Explore -- the CD auto-runs any other way you try to access it. It sure has a lot of pretty pictures, but it doesn't tell you how to quit either, or how to get tools, the shortage of which I tended to knock up against on a regular basis.Graphics are blocky, but survivable. There is no explanation of what stars mean in the initial game setup -- I thought it was a rating system, but turns out it's probably a difficulty level. I still have no idea why I couldn't build a warehouse on the scenario I tried -- I had enough stuff, but it just didn't want to do it.I suppose if I were more intuitive or more patient I could probably figure it out, but as it is, it's just too frustrating to play.

I've always loved this game, and after somehow losing the original disk, the old computer dying, and me finally able to afford a new laptop, I was able to buy this game for my old laptop.

this game was one of my favorites as a kid and now that i actually understand how to play its a lot more fun. my only compliant is the low graphic quality of the game leads to color issues when the in game videos play but this can be solved by crl alt deleteing opening task manager and then clicking on the game window again. great game so glad i found it worth the buy