You bet he has. Ubisoft has begun marketing Settlers 7 in the West, and to help boost awareness of the series in the US (it’s always been a more Germanic affair), the publisher has revealed that Bruce Shelley has helped as a “game design consultant”.
It’s only a “helping hand” kind of thing, so it’s not like he’s redesigned the series, but it’ll still be interesting to see how his hand has helped guide the game.
Ensemble co-founder working on The Settlers 7 [Big Download]
Navagon
Monday, February 1, 2010 at 10:23 PMDamn shame Ubisoft are killing this game with their dumbass DRM. Idiots.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 12:13 AMI loved Settlers 1 and 2, the only other one I played was settlers 5, which I found to be horrible. I think the game mechanics in 1 and 2 were perfect, perhaps a little simple by today’s standards but still great fun to play. I actually played it not that long ago.
However number 5 just felt like every other RTS out there, it reminded me a lot of Warcraft 3 or Age of Empires. Why couldn’t they keep the old school game mechanics and just update it a little, like the Heroes of Might and Magic games. They kept their signature gameplay and the games are still pretty fun.
I might check out number 7 just to see what its like but if its just another RTS I’ll be passing.