Spice Trade takes place in Baghdad (and later in the game in other places in europe and the middle east) in the 12th century. The main character is Abu Al-Qazzaz, a poor guy who has inherited some land and a house. With that, you must try to build up your spice trading business.
This game is not for the impatient. For almost every action you do in the game, you must wait about 10 seconds, while a small animation and a text tells you what you're currently doing. It doesn't really look like the waiting is due to load time either, so I don't really see why the programmers included such long waiting time in the game.
Also, it's not an easy game, at least not to begin with. There's not a lot of info in the game, so you're pretty much left to trying out stuff on your own.
Once you get into it, though (if you are patient enough to play it for long enough to get into it), it is a very intresting game. I don't think I've seen a game before where you play a Muslim and the Christians are the "evil" ones. The trading is also quite intresting, once you get into it, and the roleplaying parts of the game spices up the gameplay.
Unfortunately, the game seems a bit unfinished. You'll find a lot of bugs in the game, and combined with what I've said earlier about the waiting and lack of info, it just doesnt seem complete. The graphics are nice and detailed, but nothing fancy 3d graphics or anything.
To run this game you need to download Java as well, if you don't already have it installed. |