Wow! Pretty intricate economic and political model.

User Rating: 8.3 | Patrician III: Rise of the Hanse PC
As far as empire building games are concerned this is certainly one of the better ones that I have played - that is for players who prefer not to engage in battles with enemies and such all the time but rather wish to focus on building their empires. The economic model included in this game is superb and very intricate, including all kinds of little add-on's such as building your political career, bribery, pirates and even stealing from your oposition players. The only thing that becomes very cumbersome in this game - especially later on - is the large amount of micro-management one needs to engage in simply to make more profits. This applies specificlly to the fairly repetitive movements of boats that one needs to manage manually (if a captain for a specific boat cannot be found). Other than that, the graphics are pretty OK and the gameplay in general very enjoyable.