Port Royale 2

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $9.99

Features:

• As you complete missions, you'll gain wealth and property -- as well as new enemies to deal with
• Set up your own trade cartels and exploit any position you earn
• Discover the consequences of war, as you loot and conquer towns, build new facilities and try to take care of your people and your crew
• Choose from 16 different ship types, including some available only to nations or pirates
• Open-ended gameplay -- stay a pirate and outlaw forever, or take over a townand grow it into a mighty port

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Port Royale 2 [Posted on 2007-01-09]
The game is pretty cool. Similar to sid meier's pirates. There is more trading and economics of scale in Port royale. The naval combat is better in Pirates. I don't think port royale is very fair. Even if you have 4 war ships in your feet, you are only allowed to fight with one, while the computer is allowed to fight with all 4 or more at the same time. Personally, I enjoy pirates more.

Excellent Game! [Posted on 2007-01-10]
Wonderfully open ended economic simulator with just enough violence and mayhem to give it an edge. The combat portions, both ship to ship, and dueling, are simple and unencumbered. And while they may lack the diversity and thoroughness of several other games, it is still fun giving the enemy a full broadsides. About the only think I wish this game had was an in game encyclopedia similar to Sid Meier's Pirates.

This game is awesome! [Posted on 2007-05-02]
This game has a lot of strategy included to make it one of the best games I have ever played. A few years ago, I had over twenty-million gold and many large convoys, but we uninstalled it. Now though, I
have it on a computer and am playing away!

Very historically inaccurate [Posted on 2007-12-28]
I got this game along with the "Buccaneer's Bounty" pack, which I bought mostly for the Patrician 3 game I read reviews of beforehand (and which I still am intrigued in and playing). I tried PR2 and it started good, very similar to Patrician 3 but in the Caribbean. I liked the much vaster array of ships to choose from.

But I quickly lost interest in the game. Why? It doesn't even make half an attempt to be historically inaccurate, and that to me is a huge deal-killer in games like this. I started playing the Maracaibo tutorial and learned the basics of the game, then tried a single player campaign. It started off well, but then I started sailing around finding cities EVERYWHERE.

I thought there might be one or two isolated Dutch settlements in the northeast islands, but there was a settlement on almost every single island, if not every island. The islands further south were riddled with English settlements, the Florida coast was chock full of French settlements, and the Gulf of Mexico coast had a Spanish settlement every couple squares. Well that might make for more engrossing gameplay with so many cities, but as far as historical accuracy goes, it might as well have been on the moon.

In the year I played (I think it was around 1585), historically there were actually ZERO Dutch, ZERO English, and ZERO French settlements in the Caribbean, and you can bet the modern-day Southern U.S. coast was not colonized, except for perhaps one or two tiny settlements. The truth of the matter is that at this point in history, the Caribbean was a Spanish lake. I could understand maybe one or two isolated French/Dutch/English settlements to get the game going for the other countries, but it was big-time overkill seeing the entire map already completely colonized.

This huge disservice to historical accuracy made me lose interest in the game on the first session. If you appreciate games for the historical side, I do not recommend Port Royale 2.

This game will not work on my computer. [Posted on 2008-01-02]
After various attempts to make Port Royale 2 work on my brand new Dell computer I still have had no success! I have contacted the manufacturer who has given me several suggestions and I have tried them all. I will never order another product from them until they fix this problem.

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