Mind-numbingly Boring!!

User Rating: 4 | East India Company PC
By wbknapp | Review Date:
For a game that had such promise and hope, this is a real letdown. The premise of building a trading empire in a historical setting in the Age of Sail was so appealing, yet its execution is just drab. Your time should be spent negotiating favorable contracts with your colonies, bullying your own country to make ships cheaper or buy your goods at higher prices, or pressuring your country into war. You should have the ability to corner the market on various items. Naval battles should involve actual tactics.

Instead, expect to do these things:
1. Build a ship and watch it sail between a colony and your home port.
2. When it reaches a port, enter that port, experience an extraordinary and game-flow altering load time, and then buy and sell cargo.
3. Repeat, with various random events thrown in.

The optimist in me says that I must be missing something exciting, profound event that will occur once I play the game longer that will turn the entire game around for me. The realist in me says that it's a waste of time to endure another 20 hours of watching sailboat-shaped pixels move around on my monitor.

Other Helpful Reviews for East India Company

Load Comments (0)