EIC Reviews and Video

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With East India coming out tomorrow we'll see the usual huge amount of reviews coming through.  Some however have beaten the rush and got in early.  Via Blues. 

Hooked Gamers 7.6/10 - HERE

Striving to balance a complex mixture of trading strategy with sea combat simulation, East India Company offers a rather unique gameplay experience. Players compete in real time to control India's riches with a total of seven other nations. The game consists of three views: an overall map, a city view and a zoomed in view that is used to play out sea battles. The overall map covers the area from Europe to India and thus includes the Middle East and Africa. You can reach your goals by either bankrupt the trading companies of all competing nations or to control all ports in India for 10 years without interruption. Neither of these goals are easy to reach, but then again, the game wouldn't be any fun if it was. ​

Strategy Informer 7.5/10 HERE

Despite its flaws though, East India Company is a lot of fun whilst playing it. The main campaign will take you a while, and there are several factions you can try it with. It?s a shame there?s no factional variation however, as that would add to the replay value considerable. As it stands, it would be surprising if anyone played through the main campaign more than once, seeing as in the same thing tends to happen each time. There are ?mini? campaigns you can try out, form different starting dates, but apart from skirmishes, there really isn?t a lot else to this game. ​

Avault 4/5 HERE

Patience is something that shooter players don?t have in their repertoires, but RTS fans need to have it to succeed, especially in East India Company, in which most of your time is spent clicking the mouse and watching the attractive graphics do their thing. But there is a shipload of annoyances that threaten to ruin all of the good work that Nitro has done with this RTS. But I?m hooked anyway, despite the occasional brain cramp (hint: save early and often!). Fans of the genre will have loads of fun with East India Company, and it?s just accessible enough so that newbies can get in on the action with a minimum of heartache. ​

So all in all, not a bad start.  One thing that should be pointed out is that there seems to be an issue with how long the naval battles play out as there is no way to speed them up.  Hopefully this will be patched soon, running away is never fun to watch. 

 Also, further to yesterdays youtube post Kim has stopped by the forum to show off another video.  This time it's with Nitro's Allaro Sahari who moonlights as the Vellamo maritime museum's curator.  In this he explains into some details about some of the ships you'll get to play in EIC from a historical point of view.  Not bad for the history buffs.



 

Lastly, in celebration of East India Company's release later this week, Paradox Interactive has released a fan kit for gamers who would like to create a fansite for the game.  I'm downloading it now so I'm not sure what's inside, I doubt it's the same as the one they released a year or so ago, you can download it HERE



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[Thagarr]

Awesome video! I could spend days in a place like that! Unfortunately, there aren't very many maritime museums in cornfields of Illinois! :