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Patrician II - CD Rom

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Hello Out There:
If you have a job and work for a living this game is not for you. It has many qualities-realistic scenes, authentic schemes,interesting intrigues, many fun things-but you will spend the rest of your life catching on to any undergoing themes which could facilitate and make your playing the game, fun.
For some it can be a "highly" challenging game. I'm not sure who they are.
The game is intricately thought out and without a doubt, a jewel, if you can learn to memorize pages of information and critiquing before attempting the game. Have fun!

Split down the middle...no end in sight

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Great starting and lots of fun up until you have so many ships and need to set up auto-trading... wow! what a pain in the [rear]!!! It took me over a half hour of repetitive manual entries to set up only ONE ship for auto-trading. Multiply that by 20 or 30 trading ships... OR you could do each one manually from port to port while you try to explore out into the atlantic and into the medeterainan for unknown ports. Then I never did reach the end of the game... I had offices in every town, millions of gold, a hundred pirates working for me, hundreds of trading ships and fleets. Was elected to the highest office. Where is the end? I never found it.

Hanseatic League Trading Simulation

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: October 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Complex markets, realistic trading, town development, personal advancement, etc., this game has it all. Patrician II incorporates an interesting time period where growth in trade and city development was pinnacle for Northern Europe. Running your own business in a medieval situation gives a new found respect for the hardships these entrepreneurial souls endured while carving out their markets.

Patrician II has excellent graphics; it sets a feel to the game that makes it very enjoyable. The game-play is fantastic; there are tons of options to adjust to your speed or difficulty level. The multiplayer works flawlessly and the game appears to have been tested quite efficiently. No patches were necessary, and bugs and crashing are non existent. Strategy First is definitely making a name for itself for delivering stable working games, with impeccable historical accuracy and interesting environments and time periods very few game manufacturers explore.

Has trading in the high seas ever been so fun?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: December 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the type of game I wait around for. You know, the one that comes out every year or so that you know you'll have to buy when it first comes out as opposed to most games where you can wait a bit until the price goes down. Well, I forked the cash when this one hit the shelves. And it was worth it.

Anyone old enough to remember Sid Meier's Pirates will appreciate this game. It combines the same elements of that classic game as well as business management and some serious historical factoring. This game would be great business history tool, because today's European Union is loosely based off what your objectives are. Anyone with a brain won't mind playing this game for a few days or so.

With endless options, you basically are set out to make money, any way you want. The open ended goal is too become Alderman of the Hansa, the vast multi-national trading guild. The ladder is pretty long too, it is tough enough on average difficulty to become just a merchant.

I would say this game combines the Microprose classics Pirates and Railroad Tycoon into one game. (Both of which are hall of fame games by the way in almost every publication.)

The only downside is the length of the game. It takes a long time to do stuff, and some people will be very turned off. This game ain't no Diablo. This game involves thinking, and with that a lesson on European history too.

Great simulation by our friends in Germany. Thumbs up.

Better then the first, enjoyible to a point

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 17
Date: October 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Many years ago, I ran across the first installment and said, this idea was good, but something was missing. Well, they must have heard me over in Germany. The reminds me in many ways of Pirates, (Yes, I am old enough to remember that game). Sailing the North and Baltic Seas in order to gain a high rank among the trading towns of the north. The graphics are fairly good and the detail is ok, the manual has a few words they forgot to translate from German. You can marry and ship and hunt pirates, or be one yourself. You have your choice of 8 cities to start from. The micromanagement is the only real distractor from this game. When one gets many ships, it becomes very hard to manage the ships and if you are mayor of a town, the stress level increases. But if you are like and remember the good old days of Pirates!, this game is for you. It is worth the money!!!!

Very addicting!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Who would have thought a game about the Hanseatic League could be so fun? I barely knew that the Hanseatic league existed. I never normally rate stuff 5 stars because most products are not perfect, but in my opinion Patrician 2 is as close to perfect as any computer game is going to get.

I chanced upon the game while surfing Amazon. When I saw it for $... at the PX boy was I glad I bought the game. I was very pleasantly surprised with Patrician 2. The game does not have flashy graphics but it is one of those games where you think you played for a half an hour and 2 hours have gone by. Patrician 2 combines Sid Meierýs Pirates and SimCity. You can build buildings to rent, businesses, and ships. You can trade within your own town or other towns.

The best thing about it, is that it is open ended w/out cumbersome missions to perform. One can take many different routes as an honest trader and businessman or a cutthroat pirate. As a member of the underworld you can bribe politicians (and what politician doesnýt like bribes?), burgle your competitors, hire pirates, or become a pirate yourself.

The ONLY stuff that might turn off players, in my opinion is that the game is brain intensive. You have to learn the profitable trading routes which for me meant writing down commodity prices at first. You have to keep track of your businesses as well. If you want a game where you will just veg out, Patrician 2 might not be as fun.

A thinking ,not a shooting Game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Quite a change from the point and shoot,"market to kids", attitude in Game design.This requires Memory,Skill and Luck.

Tough! Takes a bit practice at first but worth it!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A great game! While most strategy gamers wont appreciate it at first and find it a bit complicating, it is still a great game in the end. Well worth the practice! I love the fact that I can take on many roles in this game. A merchant, a buisness man, a producer of goods, a pirate, a courier, a politician or many of the above mentioned or all of them! Great game!

A cross between Pirates and Civilisation

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Don't be concerned about the subject matter, this game about trading in the time of the Hanseatic League (a powerful trader's union in Northern Europe around the 14th century) is huge loads of fun. It's detailed, pretty, has a meticulous attention to detail and lots of avenues to pursue your goal of becoming the leader of the Hanseatic League itself, from honourable Patrician to cut-throat pirate.

It is open ended, you can keep playing forever and keep adding ships and trade routes to your trading empire. Some people have managed to get hundreds of ships trading goods all over the European coast at the same time! However, once you get past a certain point, the user interface becomes very cumbersome, especially when planning, implementing and changing auto-trading information (auto-trading is a feature whereby you can tell a ship what to buy and sell, and at what prices, and then leave it on auto-pilot. Without this feature the gameplay would become cumbersome much sooner).

A cut'n'paste feature for auto-trading would have been extremely useful, as well as the same feature applied to your town storehouses in the beginning (this latter feature is available in the patched versions).

Nevertheless, you won't regret buying this game, as you'll get dozens or even hundreds of hours of playing time out of it before the interface becomes annoying. Or, you could just play it as a Pirates-style game and become a buccaneer or a pirate-hunter - the sea battle mini-game is really fun (but if you don't like it you can have your ships fight automatically)! Most of the time you will dabble in all these things, as well as building your own production factories, farms and businesses.

A must-have game if you like strategy or logistics, empire-building, or you are a history buff.

Be Advised...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: January 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love the game and I generally agree with the positive reviews of Patrician II.

HOWEVER, please be advised: This is not a game that you just pop into your CD drive for a casual 20-30 minutes of play. It requires a lot of micromanagement, patience, and frankly, can be quite sloooow for quite a long time.

We fanatics tend to forget that not everyone is inclined to spend hours on what may feel more like a history lesson on a relatively (for most people) obscure trading league in order to become a successful merchant.

You've been warned.

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