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	Merchant Prince 2 Windows | TAKE 2 Interactive, 2001 average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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Merchant Prince 2 is a turn-based strategy game of economic, political, and military conquest. Venture deep into the heart of the Renaissance, a time when valiant traders braved storms, pirates, and disease to amass fortunes. Chart the treacherous Atlantic and overcome the desert heat, bringing untold wealth back from the four corners of the earth. Join in the vicious politics, bribing senators, buying cardinals, and seizing offices ranging from general of the Venetian Home Army to the Pope himself.

Accumulate wealth during five campaigns in Europe, Asia, and even the New World. Trade with dominant cultures, hire mercenaries, and break open closed markets. Optional settings allow you to research and develop over 30 technologies. Slander your opponents with more than 100 different phrases, or create your own. Merchant Prince 2 features multiplayer support for upto four players via LAN or over the Internet.

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This is simply a re-release of the original. If you own and played the original, don't bother buying MPII; it's the same game. Is a great game, lots of ways to win and "work" the system--but was looking forward to some new twists on the original and was very disappointed. Should have been called Merchant Prince 1.01 (to be fair to the buyer). (Four stars to the original, minus one for getting me to buy it again.)


What a disappointment!

Even more so, I think, than Master of Orion III. MoO III at least introduced new concepts and made some serious attempts to improve the gameplay.

This game has at its core the titles Merchant Prince and Machiavelli: the Prince. It makes few innovations on them, so the core game is good. But somehow it went wrong. The music is turned up WAY too loud, for a start. But after that it doesn't get better: the UI could have been improved over Machiavelli: the Prince, but instead it got much worse. In particular, the minimap shows much larger icons, with the result that it shows such a small area as to be almost unusable (the minimap is one of the most important screens in this series for manipulating your pieces and playing the game). The graphics were made more flashy, but they lost the crispness of those in Machiavelli.

I can't think of a reason to play this game when the others are still usable. My advice: get ahold of Machiavelli: the Prince (it's freely downloadable from the Internet) and run it in an emulator. It runs well in DOSBox.

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