Great Game! Poor execution in some ways.

I would have given this 5/5 if it had been more reliable and had some functionality that I thought would have been common sense.

CONS: It crashes in the middle of a game quite frequently which is very frustrating. Theres no autosaving so if you dont save after every single turn (which is just plain annoying), then you stand a good chance of losing your game altogether and having to start again (extremely annoying). The Save feature doesnt work properly - cant overwrite a save and a few other funky things going on there. One thing that I thought would have been really useful would have been key commands for performing functions (i.e. build a road would be b then r). Theres no key command functionality at all. The other thing is theres no way to turn off all the bloody pop-up windows that happen throughout the game. I dont need to know every time what the card is - if I dont know, I can look. I dont need to know every time somone gets robbed - I can figure that out pretty easy. Some control over the amount of pop-ups would be great. In reality, I could play a game in under 30 minutes, if it wasnt for all the pop-ups. Another thing thats just crazy is how much it makes my MacBook Pro fan spin up. I run Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator and other what should be fairly CPU heavy applications and they dont do anything like Catan. As soon as I start Catan, the fan starts ramping up. Seems a little odd if you ask me.

PROS: The game play is actually really good. The mechanics are good, the animations are good, the implementation of the actual game is good and I dont win every time which I like, because I want it to be challenging. If the above things were better, definitely a 5/5.

cjhorton about Catan, v1.1.1