Port Royale 3 details
| Formats: | 12 PS3, Xbox 360 |
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| Genre: | Strategy |
| Collections: | Top PS3 Games |
| Developers: | KALYPSO |
| Rental release: | 07 Sep 2012 |
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Ignore the harsh reviews... read this.
By Mafiaduck (4 reviews) , 13 Nov 2012[Highly rated reviewer]
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The game is not boring, or slow, or rubbish. It can be good, when it gets going. You just have to know what to expect.
Some people seem to have bought this thinking 'Wooo, pirates! exciting!' but it's not that sort of game, it's trading and economy based, and as a result the game requires a fair bit of time to be put in (although Trophy and achievement hunters can get roughly 75% of them in about 6 hours)
Tutorials are worked into the campaign modes to help understand the ways of the economy, be it as a merchant, or a pirate. Or a mix of the two. The campaigns are roughly 1 hour long, and then go into freeplay mode, from which you can take what you've learned and do as you please.
But as it's an economy game, you have to micro manage all your towns, find out what sells and what doesn't and get rid of it, or ship it to other towns. You have to set up trade routes and buy the ships to do it. When you have 4-5 towns, and a fleet of ships, you can actually leave most of it do it automatically whilst you attend to whatever you must do to win over more towns, or maybe hunt down the pirates.
Sadly, that is all there is to do. There's not nearly as much detail in running the towns as similar games such as Tropico, there's not the the exciting battles that old games like Age of Empires used to have. But if you know what a 'trading economy' game is, and you want one of the console, you can't go much wrong with this.
Just don't expect to put 50 hours in to it, with only one map, and no real dynamic goals, once you have annexed all 4 nations, there's no reason to go back to sea.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(9)What a boring and life destroying experience!!!
By EcDude (1 review) from Porth , 30 Mar 2013The title of this says it all, the game is more difficult to get into then Katy Perrys pants. Average graphics and extremely low fun, i couldnt even be bothered to finish the training mission as after an hour of trying to reach the 200,000 gold target i decided to better place my time by watching paint dry and banging my head against a wall.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Proper awful
By BigSaus (3 reviews) , 23 Mar 2013Awful, truly awful. I've gamed from the age of 4 and this, without doubt is the worst game EVER. I felt that it had the potential to be a great engaging game and was sort of hoping for a space opera on the seas. Like Frontier Elite in a boat. But it wasn't. It was rubbish. Rent something, no wait, anything else- Was this review helpful to you?
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Good but Bad.
By aConsoleCouple (3 reviews) , 13 Mar 2013Good game for someone who likes pirate/trading games but also has a lot of patience. The game plays smoothly but is very repetitive.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Glad I only rented it!
By Sanguinarius (5 reviews) , 18 Dec 2012I don't mind playing slow games, but this is just plain boring. You have to complete slow boring tasks, manual battle controls are hopeless, no real tutorial rather a series of very boring video clips to watch.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Ignore the harsh reviews... read this.
By Mafiaduck (4 reviews) , 13 Nov 2012[Highly rated reviewer]
The game is not boring, or slow, or rubbish. It can be good, when it gets going. You just have to know what to expect.
Some people seem to have bought this thinking 'Wooo, pirates! exciting!' but it's not that sort of game, it's trading and economy based, and as a result the game requires a fair bit of time to be put in (although Trophy and achievement hunters can get roughly 75% of them in about 6 hours)
Tutorials are worked into the campaign modes to help understand the ways of the economy, be it as a merchant, or a pirate. Or a mix of the two. The campaigns are roughly 1 hour long, and then go into freeplay mode, from which you can take what you've learned and do as you please.
But as it's an economy game, you have to micro manage all your towns, find out what sells and what doesn't and get rid of it, or ship it to other towns. You have to set up trade routes and buy the ships to do it. When you have 4-5 towns, and a fleet of ships, you can actually leave most of it do it automatically whilst you attend to whatever you must do to win over more towns, or maybe hunt down the pirates.
Sadly, that is all there is to do. There's not nearly as much detail in running the towns as similar games such as Tropico, there's not the the exciting battles that old games like Age of Empires used to have. But if you know what a 'trading economy' game is, and you want one of the console, you can't go much wrong with this.
Just don't expect to put 50 hours in to it, with only one map, and no real dynamic goals, once you have annexed all 4 nations, there's no reason to go back to sea.- Was this review helpful to you?
- (5) Yes |
- No (0)
