I thought the game was entertaining but it does get repetitive quickly. I played the 150-year grand campaign with difficulty turned all the way up and won in 53 years by conquering all of India. The game has several weird crash bugs - for example it crashes every time I captured an enemy ship while carrying a diplomatic package, but it was otherwise stable. Doing that took about 30 hours of trading the same four goods at the same ports using the same ships, as well as blowing up hundreds of rival ships; which was easy because the computer opponents built only a handful of midrange warships and never built any heavy warships, despite having twice as much money as me for half the game. The naval battles actually work, unlike Age of Pirates 2, but they are still very slow-paced. I always played the battles with the speed turned up to the maximum 4x normal. My ship pilots also had a tendency to run their ships aground if I didn't constantly micromanage their course changes in battle. The voice overs every time your ship fires on an enemy are completely silly - like "May Gawd have mercy upon their souls!" every time a cannon volley barely nicks the edge of one ships sail.

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