Port Royale: Gold, Power and Pirates

Port Royale is a strategic economy simulation game, set in the New World between the 16th and 17th centuries. It was brought out in 2002 by the publisher Ascaron. The basic gameplay is similar to classics such as the Hanseatic League or patricians.

Since 2004, the successor to Port Royale 2, in which the basic principle of the game has not changed. However, the new version no longer offers a multiplayer mode. In addition, no limits are set more in the expansion of the company.

On 2 August 2011, the publisher Kalypso Media announced via press release to, the rights to the Port Royale series, secured and have already started the development of the third part of the series. The third part of the series titled Port Royale 3 was released on 4 May 2012 for the PC. The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions will be released on 31 August 2012.

Gameplay

The player must choose his nation before possible are England, France, Holland and Spain. Through skillful trading, piracy or successful execution of orders and missions money is earned. In addition, the player can build in cities such as weaving or production of rum distilleries and plantations for the production of cereals, for example, dyes, or cocoa.

It should be noted that there are five different types of goods, the larger a city is all the more different goods they needed. The five different product types are: Basic goods, raw materials, finished goods, groceries and imported goods.

The trade, the fulfillment of orders and battles with pirates or hostile nations make the player experience points, which affect his social rank. You start the game as an assistant and then increases over several stages ( inter alia, sailor, sailor ) to the governor of a city of his nation.

Pirates - ruler of the Caribbean

Pirate is a 2003 published implementation of MicroProse 's classic Pirates! with the game engine of Port Royale. In this variant of the game occur on the economic aspects in the background, instead it focuses on the military: As with the old Pirates! It is object of the game, to capture enemy ships to plunder, to allocate those to unearth treasures and marry the most beautiful governor 's daughter.

Port Royale 2

Port Royale 2 has a similar gameplay as its predecessor. It puts one at the beginning of the 17th century, when the great colonial powers struggled for supremacy in the Caribbean and cities in a short time very large - could be - and also very small. It thereby takes on the role of an inexperienced adventurer who has set itself the goal of building a business.

One can trade with his ship, build your own productions, take orders and missions of various people who carry out privateering and plunder cities as well as annex between cities.

You can command up to 100 convoys and build up its own production in all cities. With gold you can buy up companies other established dealers. This can lead to a production monopoly for the entire Caribbean.

One can become owner of a small city by annexing for the Viceroy one of the four nations cities hostile nations and receives land gifts in return. This has an impact on the game, for example, can you fall out of favor in a nation so that they do with their military ships hunting the player. In contrast to Port Royale Port Royale 2 has been released by the ESRB over 6 years.

Following the bankruptcy of developer Ascaron put the nunmehrige owners in the series Kalypso Media Port Royale 2 end of December 2009 again. The product was distributed under the name " Purple Hills ". In this version, which also contains bug fixes along with some improvements, also the copy protection has been removed - this prevented before running Port Royale 2 on Windows Vista and Windows 7, the earlier version, including the software pyramid under the brand " Green Pepper " appeared, was run only under Windows XP maximum.

Port Royale 3

Port Royale 3 is similar to both its predecessors as well as the game Patrician IV, also published by Kalypso Media. The PC version was released on May 4, 2012; the versions for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 on 31 August 2012.

Similar to Port Royale and Patrician 2 a multiplayer mode is integrated. This allows up to four players to compete directly against each other.