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Patrician III | 
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| From: eGames
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
Buy New: $8.99
You Save: $1.00 (10%)
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 7207
Format: Cd
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows Xp Professional, Windows Xp Home Edition
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 13940300
UPC: 743999149403
EAN: 0743999149403
ASIN: B000YSSIYS
Release Date: December 13, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Set trade routes across the Baltic as you buy and sell over 20 unique goods at ports throughout Northern Europe | | • | Build and manage cities as you raise your reputation and join the esteemed Hanseatic League | | • | Fill your coffers through market savvy, piracy and smuggling | | • | Engage buccaneers in battle on the high seas |
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Product Description
Patrician III is a real-time trading simulation featuring elements of construction and the historical background of maritime trade in Northern Europe during the 1300's. Will you succeed in your career, starting as a small trader and rising to an influential Patrician? Will your fame help you rise to governor, or leader of the Hanse?
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great distraction August 28, 2008
Excellent game. Enjoyment for hours, time will pass and you will not realize you have been playing this game for several hours. I do not recommend this game if you are like I am, easily distracted from doing chores or studies. Also after a while, you too may have to hide the game disk from your wife so it does not go missing for a while until "honey do's" are completed.
 Older game but great fun July 25, 2008
Even though this version isn't much different than the previous, it's a great buy, great game. It's definitely a real-time strategy game, focused on population and wealth building. It can be tricky anticipating and filling the needs of the citizens in the game, but there are plenty of other activities and challenges to keep things interesting.
Patrician III April 9, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very good game. But I am not as good a player as I should be and so I find it very challenging. I believe an accomplished player could find this a great, fun game.
Medieval Tycoon March 21, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a sometime Ceasar III addict, I can tell you this is not just another city-builder game. You start out as a lowly merchant with limited funds & one or two ships in a hometown of your choosing. You then have to decide what goods to buy, load onto your ship(s), & where to take them to sell. But you have to be careful because the more you buy, the more the price goes up. Conversly, the more you sell, the lower the price drops. After you get some money & clout, you can start building factories, housing for the residents, more ships (four different types) & trading offices in other cities. Some goods require raw materials which you usually have to import from other cities. Others are basic foods which you must provide to the people, or they get angry and leave town, leaving your factories idle. After you move up the ranks of society to Patrician level, you can be elected Lord Mayor & become eligible for missions (founding a city, hunting pirates) which will put you on the track to becoming the next Alderman- leader of the Hanseatic League. Eventually, you will become as rich as Bill Gates, with feets of ships carrying goods all over 1300s Europe. That is, if pirates, plagues & Princes don't bankrupt you.
Fun fun fun March 8, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
My husband and I used to play a much earlier version of this game when we were newlyweds. We were so excited when this new version was released! It's just as much fun, if not more now with the extras and upgrades, as it was "back in the day!"
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