

It focuses on the trading aspect of the franchise while still keeping some of the other aspects alive at least in some sense.įighting was never meant to be the focus.

Port Royal 3 made no secret about what they were trying to do with the game. In the second part of the saga there where real treasure to find, you could build cities, you had the opportunity to erase pirates and to duel them. Pathetic "find my son or my chest here or there", really easy to accomplish, buy or sell here or there, improve your capitans for an insane amount of gold or build something. Originally posted by LEARN TO BE SMOOTH:The game used to have more difficult missions, and more random encounters, after 2-3 hours it was clear to me that i already had find any time of event. Older players knew where to go to find the cities but newer players didn't have to look to hard to find the information they required. This is what they intended when remaking the franchise in PR3. The standardized map made the game easier to transition between the games as you knew where everything was in advance.

Soon after I bought the game and played it since. I then moved on to Port Royal 1 then 2 and finally downloaded an illegal version of PR3 to try it out. It lasted until the hard-disk died and I lost the only copy I had of the game (The floppy disk had long since died). I even duel booted the machine so I could run it through a program that would slow down the processor so as to make the game playable again. I played that game to death until my computer could not run it any more (As it is old and my updated computer wouldn't run the older games). I was first introduced to the game back in 1995 with a game called Sea Legends. I am sorry to say they are trying to follow a map that dates back to 1987 and Sid Meir's Pirates. The map does not change between the different games and it is likely to be the same with Port Royal 4. Originally posted by LEARN TO BE SMOOTH:The map is the same, maybe a little bit improved under the graphic vest, but the city, the world map and most part of it is the same of port royale 2. They removed duels, the fights between armies is just 3 ships vs 3 ships (new ridicoulous cap), you can't control all ships or pause the fight to choose your strategy, all thing you were allowed to do in previous games. The game used to have more difficult missions, and more random encounters, after 2-3 hours it was clear to me that i already had find any time of event. The map is the same, maybe a little bit improved under the graphic vest, but the city, the world map and most part of it is the same of port royale 2. When i bought the game i expected some hours of complete new fun drived by new quest, new random encounters, a nwe graphic.

The main issue with the third chapter is the lack of any news, they removed instead of adding contents. Don't take me wrong, i love this saga, i played a lot port royale 1, 2 and now, finally 3.
