Xbox 360 port royale 3 pirates and merchants

#Xbox 360 port royale 3 pirates and merchants series
#Xbox 360 port royale 3 pirates and merchants simulator

In life many of us spend our time being generally good and honest, so games like Port Royale 3 offer the perfect opportunity to let our inner-bastard come out. Meanwhile, why not sell them resources they're in dire need of at an inflated price? Rinse, repeat and profit till your coffers are full. Then you just watch the colony as it withers, offering their beleaguered citizens jobs on your ships or in colonies you like or control. Sure, you could attack their ships as they leave port, either illegally as an unaligned pirate, or by getting permission to do some privateering in the name of a King you don't care about, but you could also sabotage their production.

#Xbox 360 port royale 3 pirates and merchants series

Fans of simulation games like this will enjoy whatвЂ™s on offer, but will be disappointed that the series hasnвЂ™t really evolved or added anything new to the genre.Firing cannons and blasting an enemy ship can be rewarding in Port Royale 3, but it's far more enjoyable to take on your foes through subversion. Port Royale 3: Pirates and Merchants isnвЂ™t a bad game by any means, it does a competent job in bringing the trade simulation to consoles, but fails to bring much variation in what you do, while the interface is hardly user-friendly for newcomers. The towns all look fine, but the interface and battles all look average at best, while the sound effects arenвЂ™t the best, but voice-acting is fairly decent. The menus arenвЂ™t the best either and itвЂ™s hardly welcoming to newcomers to trade simulators, it more or less abandons them after showing them the very basic ropes.

You can build structures like hospitals, houses and trading houses in the islands, but they do all tend to blend together, making it hard to tell what you can build on and what you can enhance, itвЂ™s just not user-friendly. Luckily if you pick Adventurer, your trade ships will enter battles with pirates and while itвЂ™s a risk to your cargo, you get a ton of rewards for defeating them, which makes paying for services and building structures more affordable, while with the basic Trader option youвЂ™ll struggle and become incredibly bored, not that the naval battles are that greatвЂ¦they too become repetitive quickly, but at least it mixes things up. In terms of controls, Port Royale 3 does a good enough job in making the controller more user-friendly than you would expect, but it still doesnвЂ™t make life particularly easy for you, it doesnвЂ™t help matters that after a brief introduction to the controls you are left helpless with no real idea of what to do next, eventually I began getting my ship to travel to another island and trade goods then returned back to sell them for a profit, itвЂ™s good in this respect but the novelty wears off quickly. Now tactical games like these work wonders on PCs, but the transition to consoles hasnвЂ™t always been so easy, can this be the game to turn the tide?

#Xbox 360 port royale 3 pirates and merchants simulator

This is the first time IвЂ™ve played a game in the Port Royale series and I have to say I didnвЂ™t know what to expect, I pictured a game going around the Caribbean plundering ships for treasure, playing the part of an actual pirate, but instead itвЂ™s a trade management simulator with a few naval battles thrown in (providing you pick the Adventurer option). Fancy a trip to the Caribbean? I used toвЂ¦