Review NaN of 1
, from Phoenix
Price Paid:
$30.00
from EB's Summary:
I have a very open mind when it comes to videogames. Having quite a bit of experience in presentation, video, and website developement, I know that very often a great game can be missed by many gamers simply because it tries to break new ground, or because the makers of the title have a goal in mind that may not be apparent initially.
Having said this, I am very sad to report that this game sucks so bad that I am actually returning it. The number of games that I have returned over the years can be counted on one hand, with fingers left over. But this one has to go back.
Sea Trader: Rise of Taipan is billed as a commodities trading game, the first for the GBA. I had hopes of a deep item management game on the order of Advance Wars or Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis. Instead, Sea Traders is a simple point-and click game of the type that graced low powered PCs about ten years ago.
Sea Traders is loosely based on 17th century coastal China trading routes. Games are time based, with a One year, Three year, and Ten year game option. There is an inane storyline that has no bearing on gameplay, about your family owning one trading vessel, and how it is now your task to enrich the family business. You travel around a map, with travel times from port to port taking a number of days out of the time period you initially selected. The ideas is to aquire a certain amount of money to advance the game. You will be bored to tears while doing so.
There are few items to manage, and little logic flow to the game. Instead, you simply point and click things hoping to get some sort of gameplay going.
After a while, you open more areas to trade in, but the same random occurances, like encounters with pirates, sea police, etc., happen over and over with no variation. It was a real chore to get this far into the game.
There have been a few real duds on the GBA, but this one is the worst that I have come across. Save your money. Do not buy this game, do not even rent it.
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