American Conquest is historical real-time strategy game from the same team who worked on Cossacks: European Wars and its add-ons. Needless to say that the team is very professional and owing to the RTS development experience gained while working on previous projects. If you ever played Cossacks - battles with thousands of units on the map, you probably already know what I'm talking about. Unlike Cossacks, American Conquest is about the history of American continent exploration. The game covers a period of 300 years packed with various historical events, starting from Columbus's discovery of the continent and up to the War of Independence in the United States (centuries 15-18).

You will start playing as Columbus discovering the continent and then gradually move along the milestones of American history of the time. The difficulty curve will grow smoothly through missions. Initially in the game you, just as the first European travelers to America, will learn how to build fortifications, survive in the hostile territory, carry out exploration of the territory and establish diplomatic relations with Natives. The gameplay is half Cossacks, half new. There are many innovations implemented such as doubled unit limit, units go inside houses, unit morale and experience, better animations, physics, water effects, photorealistic textures and so on. The missions cover a variety of simple and complex objectives, including defending an area for a specific amount of time, reaching a resource goal, setting up an outpost, or capturing enemy territory, etc.

American Conquest features 12 different nations (including three colonial powers England, France and Spain, and smaller tribes such as the Incans, Aztecs, Iroquois, Huron, Pueblo, Delaware, Mayan, Sioux and Algonquin, each with its own appropriate characteristics, unique units, and building facades), 42 campaign missions (they include Columbus' Voyage, Pizarro's Raids, The Seven Years' War, Tecumseh's Rebellion...), over 100 different units (with several types of attack - both melee and ranged + morale and combat experience), up to 16000 units on the map though you can win even with a small group of troops, combat formations of infantry, cavalry and artillery in line with historical accuracy, six resources (food, wood, gold, iron, stone, and coal), a rich game world with flora and fauna - four climate zones - northern, moderate, desert and tropics, a variety of landscapes, random map generator, editor and multiplayer support up to 7 players.

Overall, American Conquest contains all the necessary elements for a compelling real-time strategy title. I do not think that American Conquest will disappoint you especially if you are a large fan of Cossacks. This game will make the waiting for the upcoming Cossacks sequel all the more bearable. You can also download&check this  SP Demo / MP Demo.

System requirements: Pentium II 450 MHz or similar (Pentium III 1 GHz recommended), 64 MB RAM (128MB recommended), Video board supporting DirectDraw, SVGA Monitor supporting 1024x768, DirectX 8.1, Sound card, 1,3GB HDD space.