#Port royale 4 review Ps4#
#Port royale 4 review Pc#

It's still early days yet, and I like to think I'll get more comfortable with it as time goes on, but it very much feels like a game with a different focus. In conclusion, I'd say this does not scratch the same itch as PR3 or Patrician 4 does for me. I don't like how they've tied the number of captains you can hire to this, as it essentially puts a limit on the number of armed convoys you can have.

I like the Concession system, where you spend Fame Points to purchase the right to produce different goods, or bonuses for your ships. Makes it more interesting to set up your convoy paths. In general, your convoys will be faster moving East to West than West to East. There is also now a concept of wind direction, a la Sid Meiers Pirates!. On a positive note, the graphics are improved a bit. I'm not entirely sure, but it seems the costs of production buildings have been rebalanced to make them much more expensive. There is also a new aspect of adjacency bonuses, with many more support buildings to get a handle on, and more though goes into where to set up your houses and production buildings.

#Port royale 4 review Ps4#

Each city is much, much smaller than in PR3, setting up more for distributing your production over more cities. port royale 4 is a very good game but there is something wrong with it, very bad bug in the French campaign it made my ps4 freeze to the point the console wasn.

#Port royale 4 review Pc#

Port Royale 4 is available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. Setting up or modifying your trade routes feels more tedious.Ĭity management has also undergone a change. Check out the launch trailer for the seafaring trade simulator set in the 17th century. Assigning convoys to trade routes feels clunky. There is still a limit on the number of cities you can assign to a trade route. Not really what I wanted.Īlso, the trading doesn't feel as smooth as it did in PR3. In PR4, they seems to have wanted to make combat a more central focus. The game in general isn't turn based, why is the combat? For me, Port Royale and Patrician are trading games, with the ability to go into combat if you want. Managing cities and trade routes also never really overcome the somewhat awkward controls on console, and combat never becomes interesting. Honestly, that aspect of it seems.out of place. Port Royale 4 starts off strong, but its solid trading and management gameplay just become repetitive over time, eventually turning into a waiting game as numbers slowly get bigger.

These are used during the turn based combat.

Different ships give you different abilities. Higher levels give you different skills and abilities. Captains can only command so many military vessels before they need to level up. In order to have military vessels, you need captains. There is more attention payed to the combat aspects. So, it does feel like a bit of a different game. So I picked it up, and the short answer is stick with PR3.