East India Company

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Binding: DVD-ROM
Brand: Paradox
EAN: 0894785002089
Format: DVD-ROM
Label: Paradox
Dimension: 0.3 x 0.075 x 0.22 inches
Manufacturer: Paradox
Model: 00208
Publisher: Paradox
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Studio: Paradox

Features and Descriptions

• Spectacular cinematic and epic naval battles
• State of the art diplomacy AI
• Realistic yet fast-paced naval combat
• Supports up to 10 simultaneous players
• Several game modes for with single and team approach

In East India Company, players will enjoy building the World's most powerful trading empire and engaging in fierce battles in both single player and multiplayer modes, all within a breathtaking cinematic environment. Players will fight, manage and rule their trading empires from Europe to the Far East with eight nationalities to choose from: British, Dutch, French, Danish, Portuguese, Swedish, Italian or Spanish. Starting modestly, you will build your fleet, establish connections to far away countries, and keep rival nations at bay. Choose from a wide array of ship classes, including a variety of transport and military vessels. Create diverse fleets and assign each of them specific trading routes. Control and upgrade well situated ports as you form your strategy for domination. Conflicts and wars are inevitable. When hostile fleets engage each other, the spectacular naval battles are fought on a real-time tactical level. Devastating broadsides are fired with a deafening roar and cannon balls tear through enemy ships and their crew. For greater tactical depth, you can, at any point, take direct command of any of your ships and feel the battle close up!

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Ratings & Comments(Average:)

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- Buy This Game
This is a well conceived and well developed game that is a challenge and great fun to play. I had no problems loading the game or playing it on my Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop running Vista. The annoying port loading times that people comment about can be eliminated by switching from 3D mode to 2D mode with no loss in play value. The price of main trading items in your home port will be significantly affected by trade volume, but the decline in price can be countered by building upgrades to your trading posts in foreign ports. There is no need to micromanage. The automated trading system will optimize your trading profits on each voyage. The game has great replay value if you use a little imagination. You can develop different strategies to win, and by playing different countries you will see that the geographical position of your home port can have have a significant impact on your trade income. Naval battles on the tactical map are easy to handle and interesting to watch as your ships maneuver to fire their cannon. The grand campaign runs from 1600 to 1750, but with a well conceived strategy you should be able to win the game by 1675 even at the hard level. Give it a try.

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- This is a Great game
Hello fellow gamers. Well I read the reviews and looked at the homepage for East India Company. I bought Port Royal 2 a year ago at the bargin basement section of Best Buy. THAT was by far the best 7 dollars I have ever spent on a game. So when i saw this game I was very interested. I also own TOtal war Empires and let me tell ya the navel battels in this game are better then the navel battles in TW-empire.The trade is ok but could have been alot better, needs to be a little more indepth. The graphics are awsome and when you consider the game uses direct x 9.0c it's even more inpressive.I have heard people bitching about the load time for ports ect in the game. I havent found any problems with the load times at all.My comp isnt a new insaine gamming machine either. I am running a e8400@3.26 ghz windows vista 64 8 gigs mushkin ram 1 asus9600 gt with 512 ram. It's like 3+ yrs old I think. So if you are looking for a kick butt fps this game isnt for you:)If you are looking for a good game that requires some thought has good graphics and an open ended campain and hours and hours of gameplay this game is for you specaily if you have a taste for anything nautical:)O and also this game is modable..whast that mean you ask???It means that players can make content for the game that outher players can download and use.So if your on the fence take the plunge and buy the game:P

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- A Decent Game but Easily Won
An interesting game but easily mastered game. Yes, the graphics are nice, and ship models are very good. The game play is rather easy. But the economics model could be better, harder. The game can be won as early as 1638 if a player knows to go after his enemies quickly. Who needs to be diplomatic; just start attacking everybody when you can with a fleet of four cutters. Each time you attack, capture one ship and use it in one of your trading fleets. You start with a cutter; then you should build a sloop (they are fast and rather cheap). Schooners are more expensive, slower, and take more time to build. You need to conserve your money so you have enough to buy and sell goods. I think it best to build a schooner as your fourth ship. When you start attacking other players' ships, make sure your ships are in fleets of 4 or 5 ships, and have at least two warships (cutters in the first 20 years of the game are fine). If your trading fleet is attacked by three or four cutters, go for the enemy sails and then flee. Don't lose your trading ships and cargo. Use your cutters to defend while your trade ships get out of harms way.
Many of the other pros and cons to the game have already been mentioned so I will not list them. But no one has mention how easy the game can be won or how to start playing or that diplomacy isn't even needed in order to win.

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- what the....
This games looks way to hard to be any fun.
Somehow a game that takes forever learn isn't too much fun.
So far, I don't recommend this one to anyone. Save your money for something better

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- East Loading Company
This game is great, but as the title suggest, you spend about 1/3 of the time you are playing the game loading either the ports, battles, or the RTS game play (however, they came up with a patch for this so be sure and fix it). I think this game was done very well, and except for a few minor bugs that they are working out of the system, this is one of the best modern games. I must disagree with the other reviewers on this game; this game DOES have replay ability. From skirmishes to the many different campaigns there is a great deal of entertainment here. If all you are interested in is KILL, KILL, KILL with lots of action then this game is not for you. But if you are a gamer like me who likes to plan and make his moves slowly while you sit back in your chair then this is a great game. This game requires a lot of strategy and long term planing! To get the most out of you company you cannot be hot headed like the gamers who do something only later to find out they made a big mistake. Remember, you are in charge of a company and you NEED to PLAN. If you don't your company will fail, so to decide the best way to profit you need to take a look at the price charts by clicking on your flag. If you like to plan, calculate your risks before doing them, and are willing to watch your company slowly grow over decades, then get this game, you will LOVE it!

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