GameShark writes: "Ultimately, East India Company is a wonderful idea with a lot of great gameplay, but there's a lot of missteps; too many, really. On the other hand, if you can get past the initial growing pains and put up with some of the UI foibles, it's a lot of fun plotting out your company's future. Is it time to buy access to frigates? Is it worth leaving a fleet at sea an extra couple of months to pick up goods from a more distant, but higher profit main trade item? Do I focus on capturing a port from a competitor or should I just bribe it entering into a pact or alliance? It's enough to make putting up with some of the problems worthwhile and to hope that Nitro Games keeps at it as they ready their upcoming expansion, Privateer".
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Commander Conquest of the Americas is the follow up game from Nitro Games' East India Company. Greg Wild previews the game taking a look at the naval combat and the grand strategy element of the game.
I tried to like East India Company, but I just couldn't get into it, I found the ship battles a pain to play through and the grand strategy wasn't my cup of tea really. Sounds like they may have made some improvements though!
