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Machiavelli the Prince

Original, intéressant, bien réalisé. Machiavelli the Prince ne présente, à mon avis, qu'un seul défaut : la longueur d'une partie si l'on joue à plusieurs. On peut néanmoins paramétrer le nombre de tours. Un grand jeu.

When I first ran into Machiavelli, I experienced a startling lurch of deja-vu. Sure enough, this is the same game as Merchant Prince, published last year by QQP. Evidently, there was some sort of falling-out between QQP and H.D.I. (then going by the unfortunate name "Holistic Dudes"), and the original game was yanked from distribution. (--William R. Trotter)

If you like a little scheming, swindling and backstabbing to spice up your trade routes and empire-building, this is a game for you. Of course, if you already own MERCHANT PRINCE, then the decision becomes somewhat tougher. I'm such a big enough fan of the original that I genuinely enjoyed this upgrade. The game has been passed under the CD chrome-ifying ray, polishing every pixel of the graphics, adding the new noises inevitable with any enhanced version.

Auf der anderen Seite handelt es sich bei Machiavelli um ein solides Programm, das dem Spieler viele langweilige Standardübungen abnimmt. Wie so oft, gewinnt der Handel bei menschlichen Kontrahenten deutlich an Spaß. Fans von "Hanse" können fast unbesehen zugreifen, allen anderen aber sei ausgiebiges Probespielen empfohlen.