History Videogame / Colonization

* [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Gameplay And Story Integration]]: Your colony's interaction with your European homeland. The king will keep on increasing your taxes until eventually, your colony can barely turn a profit, making independence your only choice. The various army's modifiers also reflect their historical situation. The REF have better equipment that the colonist don't have access to in order to reflect their economic and economical superiority, forcing your to think outside the box and employ unconventional warfare tactics such as using the terrain to your advantage and weaken the enemy using hit-and-run ambushes, just like the Americans did in the actual Revolutionary War.
* GenreSavvy: When you first made contact with the natives, they will be happy to buy European trade goods (which are basely worthless trinkets) from you and sell [[WorthlessYellowRocks silver]] to you at a bargain price, allowing you to make a nice profit selling it back to Europe. However, they will quickly figure out that you are ripping them off, and by mid game, they will most likely sell things to you at only slightly below market price, and not longer accept trade goods, instead, they demand you sell them other more useful European products, such as guns and horses.

* FieldPromotion: If a unit wins a combat, there is a chance that it improves in social/skill rank (petty criminal -> indentured servant -> free colonist -> veteran soldier).

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Your colony's interaction with your European homeland. The king will keep on increasing your taxes until eventually, your colony can barely turn a profit, making independence your only choice. The various army's modifiers also reflect their historical situation. The REF have better equipment that the colonist don't have access to in order to reflect their economic and economical superiority, forcing your to think outside the box and employ unconventional warfare tactics such as using the terrain to your advantage and weaken the enemy using hit-and-run ambushes, just like the Americans did in the actual Revolutionary War.

* GeoEffects: Just like most Sid Meier games, you get combat bonuses or penalties depending on the type of tiles your troops are located on. And there are upgrades that gives you additional bonuses. The Native Americans tends to have this as one of their biggest advantage.

* GrayandGreyMorality: The colonist wants to create a build a new nation for their people free from the persecution and oppression from their homeland, while the Native Americans are trying to defend their ancestral lands and way of life from the stranger from across the sea.

* Video Game Caring Potential: Build a prosperous colony with great wealth and economic opportunities. Make your colonies a place in which everyone that was driven out of Europe due to their unpopular religious or political views get to start a new life. Be good to the natives, peacefully interact with them through trade and cultural exchange, allowing those that were converted to live with along side the rest of your citizens as equals. Produce lots of liberty bell, then adopt values such as the separation of church and state, emancipation of slavery, and support native rights, making your new nation a paragon of enlightened democracy with peace and justice for all. The natives will reward you with tax free trade opportunities and teach your citizens useful skills that cannot be learned from anywhere else. The people will reward you with increase productivity and combat bonus.
* Video Game Cruelty Potential: Construct an imperialistic outpost for your homeland, with an economy based on extorting and looting from the natives! Utterly and thoroughly exterminate all native Americans and plunder their land! Use new immigrates as cannon fodder in you conquest! Burn the settlements that belong to other European colonist to the ground! After declaring independence, make your new nation a slavery based theocratic monarchy that believes in it's Manifest Destiny, a government that is even more oppressive then your European homeland! The natives will try to fight back, but with your superior technology it will only be a matter of time before they get wiped out. As for your people... Well, they actually will not do much to protest your actions!

* HereThereBeDragons: The intro movies shows your ship crossing the Atlantic ocean on a Ye Olde Map, which is populated with all kinds of fantastic sea monsters.

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Key manufactured goods do get more expensive over time, but this is probably the game's not-so-subtle way to force you to develop your own economy. Furthermore, the price you get for selling goods is always lower than the price you pay for buying them. Adam Smith's own appearance in the game, however, averts this; he enables you to build very useful factories.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Even for an old and abstract game, its version of events leaves big hole. A gaping hole. A black hole, if you will, with no mention of the role that slavery played in the European colonial development.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Even for an old and abstract game, its version of events leaves big hole. A gaping hole. A black hole, if you will.

* InexplicableTreasureChests: Lost Cities, which are this game's take on the classic "goody huts." With the founding father Fransisco de Coronado, IndianBurialGround pretty much functions like this, too.

* SummonBiggerFish: As the Americans did in RealLife via France, in the original Dos version of the game you can summon a bigger fish during your Revolution (exactly which country supports you is somewhat random, though I could be wrong on this point). Sadly, this is left out of the modern remake.

* InexplicableTreasureChests: Lost Cities, which are this game's take on the classic "goody huts."
* InstantMilitia: You can arm any unit with muskets for a quick military force, and / or give them horses to make them Scouts or Dragoons. Of course, they don't perform as well as Veteran Soldiers or Seasoned Scouts in these roles. Also, if a colony with no garrison but a musket stockpile is attacked, the citizens will automatically arm themselves and "Man the stockade!"

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Averted, as Adam Smith enables you to build very useful factories. On the other hand, key manufactured goods do get more expensive over time, but this is probably the game's not-so-subtle way to force you to develop your own economy.

''SidMeier's Colonization'' is a {{turn based strategy}} game from 1994. In ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Colonization Colonization]]'' you colonize the New World as either England, Spain, France or the Netherlands.

* RefiningResources: Most of your economy is based on this.

''SidMeier's Colonization'' is a {{turn based strategy}} game from 1994. In ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Colonization Colonization]]'' you colonize the New World as either England, Spain, France or the Netherlands.

In many regards it resembles its [[SpiritualSuccessor spiritual predecessor]], ''{{Civilization}}'', as you build cities, grow your population, wage war with other factions and in general guide your faction towards an end goal, in this case independence from the mother land. However, the main difference with the ''Civilization'' games is that your population consists of different specialists. You have lumberjacks, elder statesmen, fishermen, blacksmiths, indentured servants, gunsmiths and [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters tons and tons of other types]]. To get a productive empire, you need to have a combination of all these specialists. Another important feature is that the player can get "founding fathers" like Washington, Cortez or Simon Bolivar, who give unique benefits to your country.

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