More Patrician than Pirates!, Port Royale 2 is a rich haul for hardcore management sim fans. Read Review
As an adventurous trader in the Caribbean during the 17th Century, you will trade with over 60 towns and create your own production facilities. Not only will you increase your trading empire, but you will also have a larger influence on the development of the New World. Trade is not everything though, as pirates and military fleets threaten your trade convoys. Escort ships for your convoys are needed, or you can turn the tides and hunt for pirates or capture the military ships, becoming more famous and expanding your own fleet as well as your stocks of goods. If that is not enough, you can also take on missions for merchants, diplomats and other characters. With the even more desirable missions of the vice kings, where you are to attack and conquer enemy towns, you will be able to influence the defences of your home towns directly. As a sign of gratitude you will be awarded land, to be used later for the building and growth of your own towns.
The most obvious game that Port Royale 2 can be compared to is Sid Meier's Pirates!. Both games have a lot in common, at least on the surface. Both cast the gamer as a young sea captain with a single ship and a small nest egg seeking his fortune in the untamed wilderness that was the Caribbean in the 17th century. Both allow players to wander freely, traveling from town to town in search of treasure, developing reputations and deals with the powerful colonial governors of the region, and fighting on the high seas as either a mercenary privateer or a full-blown pirate Read More »
Port Royale, on the Island of Jamaica once known as the "Wickedest City on Earth," was soon to become one of the busiest and most economically important English ports in the Americas. Originally, Port Royale was designed as a defensive fortification to guard the entrance to the harbor. Certain geographical traits: located within a well-protected harbor; a flat topography; deep water close to shore allowed large ships to be serviced, loaded and unloaded; would put it on the fast track as a capital of commerce. Read More »
Also known as: Port Royale II, Port Royale 2: Cartels Construction and Conquest
Release Region: United States
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Publisher: Tri Synergy
Release Region: Japan
Release Date: November 26, 2004
Publisher: Tri Synergy
Also available on: Wireless
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