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Create a thriving settlement with farms, bakeries, Potteries, Mason Shops, Schools, Armories and many more. Manage your settlement and its Settlers, erect new buildings, raw materials will roll in, finished goods will roll out so you can grow more people. Watch your people walk, eat, sleep, and talk to each other for entertainment. Couples marry. Babies are born, grow up, and are assigned careers of their own.Each person is a unique character who can be assigned a career. As they go about their careers, their skills improve. As their skills improve, new careers are opened to them. Stay out of the way of your enemies or attack them when you feel there is no other option.

Cultures: Northland follows the story of a wandering band of Vikings, guided by a quartet of heroes named Bjarni (son of the famous explorer Leif Ericsson), his lover Cyra, and their friends Hatchi and Sigurd. Hatchi soon finds that his homeland is overrun by enemies. As a result, he calls upon his friends for help. The game's campaign is spread out over eight missions, and you can also play an additional eight stand-alone missions that are unrelated to the story.

Features

• 8 campaign Missions with several subquests and 8 single missions
• 4 heroes that join forces to fight the final battle
• Over 30 different occupational groups, updated job and skills systems
• Menus with different level of detail to fit each gamers needs and
• preferences
• Highly detailed 3D environment
• Extensive tutorial with step by step introduction into the game and its
• features Improved AI (for the villagers as well as for other tribes)
• 3 difficulty levels to make the game fun for everybody from beginners to
• experts
• Special effects like weather effects, fog, ghost units etc

Shopper Reviews

1. 

   Good Game - Classic Game Play

   by James Cates, USA - Jan 23rd 2012

   IF you like the original PPC 'Northlands' or if you like Settlers you're sure to like Cultures: Northland. Hats off to Rune-Soft for the intel conversion!!!
   
   PROS:-
   Classic game play EXACTLY the same as in 'Northlands' as it is the same game converted to Intel.
   Extensive tutorials to help you get started.
   Good to see this one not die due to LION's lack of ROSETTA.
   Freeplay mode and Multiple Game Level options make for virtually unlimited game play.
   Cute Characatures and sounds.
   Game can easily be made to display in widescreen by editing just one file.
   Runs smoothly with no Graphic or Gameplay glitches on Lion.
   DRM does NOT require a constant internet access to play like 'some' games and can therefore be played virtually anywhere on your laptop.
   Tons of character options from job, tools, housing, marraige, children -boy/girl-, work location, etc.
   
   Cons:-
   Graphics could have used an upgrade - a bit pixelated when zoomed in if using a large display.
   No in game option for widescreen displays.
   IF you owned the origianl 'Northlands' you get to pay for it again due to LION's lack of ROSETTA support.
   No Users or Game Manual.
   No multiplayer available - just like the original 'Northlands' PPC game.
   
   NOTE:- For those with widescreen displays the game can quickly and easily be made to display in widescreen by doing the following:
   
   - Run the game once and select any 'Video' options you would like from the Settings button (only available once you have selected Freeplay/Tutrial/Single User - Campaign)
   - Open ~/Library/Applications Support/com.rune-soft.culturesnorthland/
   - Duplicate the 'config.xml' file (just in case)
   - Edit the original config.xml file with Dashcode or your favourite XML editor to your desired widescreen display mode (e.g., 1600 X 900). Insure this is a valid widescreen display for your device and save the file.
   - That's it! Now everything except the first Rune-Soft startup screen will display and play in widescreen with no problems. DO NOT change Video options any further in Settings or else your widescreen display option will be overwritten.

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