Age of Marco Polo Gold
Description
Age of Marco Polo is the epic story of a Venetian trading house's rise to power during the dark middle ages. Sail around a Europe tortured by plague and trade with treasured goods such as salt, wine, silk and ivory. Age of Marco Polo is packed with stories of pirates, revenge, corruption but also fair ladies and love.
To make the best trading deals you should tap into rumours about events of famine, shortages and the greedy desires of Kings. Then you are able to expand your fleet and become one of the glorious trading houses of Venice.
If you are skilled at this - that's not all. Recruit hard-boiled crusaders to your fleet and bribe the church in order to shape your own destiny in this world. This enables you to launch expeditions to distant lands in the east, such as the empire of Kublai Khan, where exotic spices and yet unknown inventions lure. These treasures might show to be of high interest to even the Venetian Doge himself. You have 30 seasons to gain riches and might. Trade well adventurer!
(c) 2004 Street Media 7
Controlled by the phone softkeys or joystick.
The keypad (2,4,6,8 and 5) can also be used in a joystick-manner.
Customer Reviews
?Äúage of marco polo,?Äù by street media 7 ab, is a decent little game that is close to what I was looking for, but just didn?Äôt have quite enough of it. It purports to be an epic adventure and a complex trading/economic simulator. In actuality there are only six cities you can visit for trading and advancing your reputation along with a small handful of randomized events for some measure of variety. Most crippling is that you are only given 30 turns before the game ends and tallies your achievements. This means no long-term strategic thinking, no analysis of economic trends, and no development of trade routes. Each game is a mad dash to trade what you can and bribe who you need to establish a mighty reputation and maybe travel the silk road once or twice. Each session begins and ends rather quickly. I find an average game to be between 10 and 20 minutes, which might just fit perfectly in your mobile gaming lifestyle.
I will give street media points for style for the subtle touches they included to create the setting of the late-thirteenth or early-fourteenth century. For example, on occasion the rumor mill which produces the intel you need to trade effectively will instead inform you of some current event, such as the fire in hamburg of 1284 or the english defeat at stirling bridge in 1297. A couple times I was given a quote, one latin and the second italian. I guess the folks at street media were assuming we?Äôd be google- and wikipedia-savvy enough to figure out that these were the opening line of the charter that formed switzerland in 1291 and a line from the divine comedy of dante alighieri, respectively.
All in all, for a better sailing and trading game with a larger game map, more variety of missions and randomized events, and just all around more, I recommend ?Äúhigh seas: guns & gold,?Äù by venan entertainment.
- Michael Fransioli 7/10
A decent take on the buy low sell high style game... It's really easy to get top ratings though. Loses its luster after a few plays, but it's still fun.
- paul kowacich 6/10
This game is more addictive than a really addictive thing I 've been hooked for weeks working on my personal best.
- Anonymous Review 10/10
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