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 | East India Company |
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Product Description
In East India Company, players will enjoy building the World's most powerful trading empire and engaging in fierce battles in both single player and multiplayer modes, all within a breathtaking cinematic environment. Players will fight, manage and rule their trading empires from Europe to the Far East with eight nationalities to choose from: British, Dutch, French, Danish, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian or Spanish. Starting modestly, you will build your fleet, establish connections to far away countries, and keep rival nations at bay. Choose from a wide array of ship classes, including a variety of transport and military vessels. Create diverse fleets and assign each of them specific trading routes. Control and upgrade well situated ports as you form your strategy for domination. Conflicts and wars are inevitable. When hostile fleets engage each other, the spectacular naval battles are fought on a real-time tactical level. Devastating broadsides are fired with a deafening roar and cannon balls tear through enemy ships and their crew. For greater tactical depth, you can, at any point, take direct command of any of your ships and feel the battle close up!Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2537 in Video Games
- Brand: Paradox
- Model: 00208
- Released on: 2009-07-28
- ESRB Rating: Teen
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Format: DVD-ROM
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .30 pounds
Features
- Spectacular cinematic and epic naval battles
- State of the art diplomacy AI
- Realistic yet fast-paced naval combat
- Supports up to 10 simultaneous players
- Several game modes for with single and team approach
Customer Reviews
EIC is no Sid Meier's Pirates...
Well, I was excited for a
summer pirate game, I loved the Pirates! series and even dabbled with
the pirate MMO that's out there, but as much as I love the genre this
game just misses the mark:
Pros: Pretty ship models, multiple
ship fleet battles, strategic map and tactical combat for the best of
both worlds, and a long campaign through the Age of Sail (1600-1750).
Cons:
Limited
map (It's really just coastal Africa, Middle-East and India, and while
the game styles itself a "sandbox" experience, you essentially just go
back and forth between your home port and a few trade ports, in a very
narrow strip of water and no sailing off the borders)
Poor UI:
Lots of drag-and-drop, annoying battle camera mishaps and the feeling
that nothing is quite as ergonomically designed as it could be (dragging
and dropping 20 stacks of trade units every minute or so really wears
you out, and the auto-trade system crushes your economy)
Titchy
"economy": One big shipment of silk/spice/etc will destroy your market
for that product for decades, so you have to micromanage your sales,
making the game more tedious than it needs to be.
No replay
value: While you can play as any one of the major powers (England,
France, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Spain and Holy Roman Empire) there is
virtually no difference between them besides their start position. No
one has their own unique units, missions or objectives, which I just
find astonishing.
Port conquest: Just a random coin-toss; Load up
enough marines on your ships and if you win the hidden random roll, you
win. That was very disappointing for someone who was hoping for at
least a Pirates!-style avatar combat to decide such things.
Bottom
line: Give it a pass, even at a very cheap price East India Company
will annoy you more than it will entertain.
Buy This Game
This is a well conceived and
well developed game that is a challenge and great fun to play. I had no
problems loading the game or playing it on my Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop
running Vista. The annoying port loading times that people comment about
can be eliminated by switching from 3D mode to 2D mode with no loss in
play value. The price of main trading items in your home port will be
significantly affected by trade volume, but the decline in price can be
countered by building upgrades to your trading posts in foreign ports.
There is no need to micromanage. The automated trading system will
optimize your trading profits on each voyage. The game has great replay
value if you use a little imagination. You can develop different
strategies to win, and by playing different countries you will see that
the geographical position of your home port can have have a significant
impact on your trade income. Naval battles on the tactical map are easy
to handle and interesting to watch as your ships maneuver to fire their
cannon. The grand campaign runs from 1600 to 1750, but with a well
conceived strategy you should be able to win the game by 1675 even at
the hard level. Give it a try.
This is a
Great game
Hello fellow gamers. Well I
read the reviews and looked at the homepage for East India Company. I
bought Port Royal 2 a year ago at the bargin basement section of Best
Buy. THAT was by far the best 7 dollars I have ever spent on a game. So
when i saw this game I was very interested. I also own TOtal war Empires
and let me tell ya the navel battels in this game are better then the
navel battles in TW-empire.The trade is ok but could have been alot
better, needs to be a little more indepth. The graphics are awsome and
when you consider the game uses direct x 9.0c it's even more
inpressive.I have heard people bitching about the load time for ports
ect in the game. I havent found any problems with the load times at
all.My comp isnt a new insaine gamming machine either. I am running a
e8400@3.26 ghz windows vista 64 8 gigs mushkin ram 1 asus9600 gt with
512 ram. It's like 3+ yrs old I think. So if you are looking for a kick
butt fps this game isnt for you:)If you are looking for a good game that
requires some thought has good graphics and an open ended campain and
hours and hours of gameplay this game is for you specaily if you have a
taste for anything nautical:)O and also this game is modable..whast that
mean you ask???It means that players can make content for the game that
outher players can download and use.So if your on the fence take the
plunge and buy the game:P
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