To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Anno series, Ubisoft has made Anno 1602: Creation of a New World available for free on PC. The studio has also opened up to players to register for the open beta of Anno 1800.
The free game is being offered until 22 December, so if you want to get your copy of the free game, you should have a good 4 days left to give it a try. To get the game, you need to have a Ubisoft account, where the game will be added to your Uplay library.
Anno 1602 is a classic RTS game that was released back in 1998 on PC. The game is now 20 years old. The game was developed by Max Design that was set in the early modern period. In the game, players had to build colonies in small islands, manage resources, diplomacy, exploration and trade. Anno 1602 also featured progressive artificial intelligence which meant that the speed of the game changed in response to how fast the players could act.
As far as the upcoming game Anno 1800 is concerned, the closed beta is now open for registration. Players who register can be eligible to the closed beta that starts from 31 January and ends on 4 February next year.
Anno 1800 is set to release on 26 February, the same month the beta ends, for players on PC. If you pre-order the game, you will also receive the Imperial Pack that will contain extra content with the game. There will able be a Pioneers and Digital Deluxe Editions that will give you exclusive content that includes the Anarchist character.
Anno 1800 will come with the features that were highly requested by fans such as the shippable trade goods, AI opponents, more items and multi-session gameplays.
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