If you've never played Settlers before, this is a must

Use to love settlers

never played the series

do so, that's an order

what type of game is it?

strategy, rts, city builder/war

Basically it looks really cute but you have to balance an economy with the sole intention of creating a strong enough army with which to pulverize your enemy, not nice at all.

I wont like it then , i used to love sim city type games, but now all i play is action/FPS i dont have the consentration for sim/RTS.. think its all the booze

I've been playing The Settlers II since 1995. At first it was P-100, VGA 1mb, HDD 1,2Gb and RAM 16mb!!! I deem 'The settlers II' is the best one from the line. All consecutive versions were losing their orderliness and economic structure gradually from 3 to 5. They became more Warcraft-like, Age-of-empires-like and Command&conquer-like. (Nonetheless, I spent huge amount of time, playing the fourth one).
I yearn to see roads and flags again in Settlers II (10th anniversary edition). Do you remember those wonderful traffic jams which appeared on the roads near highly active construction sites when your country expanded greatly? Do you remember those shortages of loaders at far-away areas when you have captured enemies' territory and can't build there anything because there are no loaders on the roads? And certainly these magic words: THUNDER and WINTER!!!! And how shall fans understand the way buildings are constructed in Settlers 5: they are not constructed; they EMERGE from the unde

Settlers 5 was utter utter rubbish, I agree taht S2 was a great game but I preferred Settlers 3 for it's much enchanced military options.