The Guild 2: Venice
by Dreamcatcher Interactive
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Product Summary
Brand: DreamcatcherFormat: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2008-09-29
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Model: DVD-59742-MB
Publisher: Dreamcatcher Interactive
Product features:
- Includes all of the professions and buildings from The Guild 2 and Pirates of the High Seas.
- Standalone gameplay. The game can be played without The Guild 2 and Pirates of the High Seas.
- New professions: mercenary and glazier plus four exciting scenarios taking place in both Venice and Trieste.
- Historically accurate depiction of Venice between 1400 and 1600.
Video Game Reviews of The Guild 2: Venice
Customer Review: Fun game...if you have a week to sit in front of the computer...
Summary: 2 Stars
I've played the Guild series since it was The Guild 1400. It's always had its quirks (German developers have had a bad reputation for years for putting out half-baked, buggy games and rarely supporting them). But, the games are pretty deep and they offer a great premise where you get to guide a family (not just one character) through history.
You can be just about anybody (farmer, craftsman, politician, priest) and each path gives you something interesting to do, though some are harder than others to make ends meet if you want to get somewhere politically. A big part of the game, which you don't have to play if you don't want to, is politics since you can achieve levels of office and get abilities like the ability to banish someone.
All in all, the series is great. This expansion (it's really a standalone game in the end) brings Venice into the catalog of cities/regions you can play. There's also a bit of additional game play options (you can decide if you want to marry in a church, give your beloved an engagement ring, etc.) added into the mix to sweeten the deal. The Venice environments are actually pretty compared to the original game and the Pirates expansions' Northern European environments. Two new professions which include glassmaker (a high value item producer which is good) and mercenary (which I haven't tried yet) bring even more to the mix.
All this combined with the enhancements from the previous games make the gameplay great...then there's the reason for the lower overall rating. That's because the game, though it doesn't crash for me, writes corrupted savegames. That's why I say, as long as you have days of time to play the game continuously, you're golden. If you're like the rest of the world, you'll play through the beginnings of your clan very, very often.
Worst still, JoWooD (the publisher) released a patch recently that did...nothing. Now, not everyone's reporting this problem but I think it's because the problem requires you to do something specific and seems to be tied to the politics are of the game. Even so, the forums are filled with people complaining about this issue, amongst others. And, JoWooD, true to form, is barely responding if at all.
Will they fix the issue? Hard to say...I usually write these games off if they're bugged like that (something that affects your abiilty to proceed) but I guess I want to believe that they'll figure out a solution sometime. Until they do, I would steer clear of this game for now.
Description of The Guild 2: Venice
Europe, 1400 A.D. The last crusade, which started 6 years before, ended in a horrible defeat when the crusaders failed to conquer Nikopolis before being reached by the armies of osmans and serbs. The dream of conquering Jerusalem is forgotten, and European authorities are well aware that over the coming centuries, they will be submerged into defending themselves against the osman forces, which have several outposts in eastern Europe. The Roman-Catholic church is in a state of devastating dispute and intrigue, and uprisings are clearly just around the corner. Meanwhile, the old barriers between citizens and noblemen are crumbling. With dignity, good luck and wealth, even merchants and craftsmen are able to join the realms of power.Self-explaining and intuitive interface Huge and foolproof tutorial More than 150 minutes of orchestral soundtrack performed by the Th?ringen Philharmonie Exciting multiplayer mode for up to 8 players, online and LAN
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