#CULTURES NORTHLAND FISHING SOFTWARE#

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^ GameStar Editors (September 11, 2000).

^ a b Fröhlich, Petra (March 7, 2001).^ a b c d Geryk, Bruce (August 9, 2001).Global sales of the game rose to 150,000 units by March 2002. It placed sixth the following month, before falling to 16th in November. In the German market, Cultures debuted at #3 on Media Control's computer game sales chart for September 2000. Retailers pre-purchased 140,000 units of Cultures in preparation for its release, and sales expectations were high Funatics' previous title, Catan: Die Erste Insel, had become a sleeper hit. PC Games billed it as a competitor to games such as The Settlers IV and Anno 1503. Reception Sales Īs a city-building title, Cultures is part of a genre that tended to see success in European countries but 'never seems to catch on in the States', GameSpot's Bruce Geryk wrote in 2001. Its North American release occurred on July 31, 2001. Development Ĭultures was developed by Funatics Software, and was originally released in Europe during late 2000. The ultimate goal is to gather shards of a crashed meteor that possesses magical properties. This includes constructing roads, handling the settlement's economy and training citizens in jobs such as blacksmithing. It is the first entry in the Cultures series.Ĭultures is a real-time strategy and city-building game in which players manage the historical Vinland settlements of the Vikings.

#CULTURES NORTHLAND FISHING SOFTWARE#

Cultures: Discovery of Vinland ( German: Cultures: Die Entdeckung Vinlands) is a 2000 real-time strategy and city-building game developed by Funatics Software and published by Phenomedia.

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