Port Royale 2 takes you back to the beginning of the 17th century, when the great colonial powers were competing for control of the Caribbean and when towns could rapidly expand (and collapse again) over a short period of time.
Take on the role of a young adventurer and, with bravery and skill, est...
Port Royale 2 takes you back to the beginning of the 17th century, when the great colonial powers were competing for control of the Caribbean and when towns could rapidly expand (and collapse again) over a short period of time.
Take on the role of a young adventurer and, with bravery and skill, establish a large trading enterprise of great economic strength and military power. Trade goods between towns, set up production facilities, create cartels, accept all kinds of tasks and missions (merchants, diplomats and other), and set off on voyages to capture enemy ships and loot towns.
As pirates and military fleets threaten your trade convoys you may need to escort ships for your convoys, or you can turn the tides and hunt for pirates or capture the military ships, becoming more famous and expanding your own fleet as well as your stock of goods.
Great replayability thanks to a wide range of career options
Participate in epic sea battles using a broad range of ship classes
Beautiful and crisp 2D and 3D graphics
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manual (73 pages)
map
artworks
in-game soundtrack
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A long time ago I played Port Royale 1 and it was a very entertaining game. This version 2 is just as good, I don't understand why many are complaining. On my system it runs perfectly, of course the game is for 4:3 screens which doesn't bother me. This game is not for people who want something casual and fast. The hardest part is the learning curve but once you grasp the mechanics of the game you enjoy it even more.
Port Royale III and its DLCs Harbourmaster et al, was yet another iteration where the streamlining was far too noticeable and off-putting for veterans of the original Port Royale. Aascaron has been gone for a long time now, and in retrospect made, in my opinion, the best trader's game ever -- Patrician III, despite its comparitively drab locale and low-fi visuals, the micromanagement struck a fine -near perfect- balance between trading and citybuilding.
Port Royale the first was not unlike P3, a more sober experience than its direct successor -less Sid Meier's Pirates minigames and more of what made you love P3 so much for (did I say P3 was a deep game? There's a 200+ page PDF of tips out there even now from the old German Patrizier forums which belied its true depth).
Yes, the minigames here... can I say cheapened? what was a very micro-intense experience in PR1 towards an arcade experience. There were still benefits in terms of customisation unlike the modern titles -- you can choose your own bitmapped flag to display on your sloops, ships-of-the-line and galleons -- no bright blue sails here (own ships bright blue, competitors' bright red looked terribly amateur in PR3 as it does in Rise of Venice, an almost identical grind).
Otherwise similar to PR1, then. If the minigames are too anoying, PR1 still runs on Windows 7 from GoG. Possibly the best PR of them all, many years after its release.
Trading, naval combat, politics, sword-fighting, base building...The game may be 20 years old, but it's still fun. This is probably my 4th time playing it over that time, and I still enjoy it.
I was always a bit into these games. Making a city, getting trade. Maybe some skirmish too but that's not the very important part.
This one... It just felt way too complex but not in a way you would have expected. The broad aspect of this game is probably mainly the learning curve. I will be honest here: I've tried playing this game in past. My last attempt took me 1,5 hours. While that I finished two of the tutorial scenarios. Call me slow but I found the mechanics way too... slow too.
Then I tried to play a quick free play game so only that I tried it all on myself (just the very basics). I just didn't feel very comfortable using the control panel. If you wanna sail, you have to achieve certain steps at first (buy a ship, hire a captain etc.), but somehow... Everything you buy/sell/hire etc. it feels that you have no control over it. You just buy something and then you don't know where it is, how to use it.
I really felt like when I was playing OpenTTD, already progressed into a larger map with broad network of tracks and trains. At such stage the game was absolutely unmanageable, so it felt to me in PR2. Hard to control. Control buttons and the control mechanism is not the way I would have expected to be and behave.
I usually don't care about graphics in 2000+ games once the game supports either satisfying resolution (say 900p and more) or widescreen option at 768p. This is not a case of PR2 too.
I just can't recommend it. This game doesn't provide a good flow, there are better choices in this genre and even this style. PR1 seems to be a better option.
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