Trade Empires
$19.95		(Win95/98/ME) (Retail) (TRADEEMPPR)

Publisher: Eidos

A Trading Simulation that Spans 2 Millennia!

From humble beginnings, you will build a dynasty whose power extends across a vast trade and transport network. Buy low, sell high. Develop expensive luxury goods from cheap resources , and rake in the profits every step of the way.

Beginning at the dawn of human civilization and progressing through the 19th century, Trade Empires is a scenario- based, economic simulation game about creating a merchant empire through trade.

Controlling your family dynasty of merchants, your mission is to build vast transport and trade networks that change over thousands of years as new technologies are developed and more modern products are discovered.

Features and Activities:

Start out simple with one merchant and his donkeys. Gradually build your merchant empire until you control an expansive trading web

Manipulate the supply and demand economy to dominate the other merchant families. Corner the market. Undercut their prices.

Explore and Exploit: Continually discover new markets and products from silk in the Far East to iron cannons in industrial Europe.

Adapt your family's trading network to an ever-changing economy or instead face defeat when your competitors purchase advanced technology and deliver superior products.

Control vast trade networks using anything from pack animals to steam trains, canal barges to clipper ships.

Build up civilizations using more than 200 structures and 30 units in over 15 different episodes spanning four continents and 4,000 years.

Two Thousand Years of Trading:

Chang'an, Han Empire - 150 BC: Sell silk and jade produced here for huge profit 4,000 miles down the Silk Road in Antioch

Bokhara - 1255: This mighty capital serves as a center of luxury trade. Sell swords of Damascus steel here and return laden with rubies, silk or tea.

London - 1820: Revolts in Spanish America are causing a shortage of gold and silver. Use your steamships to corner the market and wipe out your competition.

Requirements:

Win95/98/ME: Pentium II 300 MHz (Pentium III recommended), 64 MB RAM (128 MB RAM recommended), DirectX7 3D accelerator video card with 8MB VRAM (with 16 MB VRAM recommended), sound card, 4x CD-ROM drive, 300 MB uncompressed hard drive space (400 MB uncompressed hard drive space recommended).

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