East India Company Screens

[RainOfTerror]

New Finnish game developer Encore Games' East India Company is set on 18th century high seas and has an exceptionally strong storyline. Player assumes the role young captain of British East India Company, set out to find out who exactly was the pirate who murdered his father and brother and to avenge them.

The game world spans from London to Aceh, where you can decide which role to take, be it trader, pirate or soldier. More than 100 missions provide challenges for all roles, focusing strongly on player ship and naval battles. There are 10 different ship types to choose from, from small and agile sloops to lumbering merchantmen and to ships-of-the-line that bristle whit powerful cannons.Check out East India Company details and screens (http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=35273) over at WorthPlaying.

Quite impressive for a new developer...

[Harlan Hoyt]

As someone who has studied British history, the East India Company offers a fascinating playground for developers. This is what I'm talking about when I complain about the same old sci-fi, Gears of War settings. History is full of fascinating situations, and games could reflect far more of our lives and our culture than they currently do. I wish this game the best of luck -- it looks like a cool mix of SimTower and British history.

[Meusli]

This game looks great, sort of a Sid Miers Pirates but with more management involved. This is a good thing because Pirates got old fast.

[Lunar Blue]

Man, never even heard of these guy but it's looking pretty interesting. Keep it up.

[camberiu]

Who needs Grand Theft Auto? This game should allow players to do the REAL mean stuff, like brutalizing natives and so on. The guys from the East India Company would make any of today's "gansta" look like a saint. Hopefully one day there will be a game that simulates the Opium Wars. We will get to play the British, the greatest drug dealers, serial rapists and extortionists of all time. The game should be called "Grand Theft Asia: The British Empire".

[Harlan Hoyt]

The game should be called "Grand Theft Asia: The British Empire".
This is, without doubt, the greatest idea for a game of all time. GTA: The Boer War FTW

[mightbe]

I'm genuinely interested in this title due to the out-of-the-blue premise.

[Meusli]

Ha ha , this is a cool idea. You could micro manage the opium farms in India to increase yeilds, then maintain an army to force the chinese to take the opium. You could even micro manage opium dens like the sims choosing different couch styles and opium pipes for your sim opium heads to toot of. :D

[camberiu]

Ha ha , this is a cool idea. You could micro manage the opium farms in India to increase yeilds, then maintain an army to force the chinese to take the opium. You could even micro manage opium dens like the sims choosing different couch styles and opium pipes for your sim opium heads to toot of. :D


Yep. And it would be funny to see the British government trying to ban the game. I mean, what game could better represent British traditional values then one showing them forcing drugs into their conquered non-white civilizations?
Many respected British families got their fortunes and titles by pillage and drug dealing on East Asia. Nothing more "British family value oriented" than a game simulating that wonderful tradition and history.

[Wyrm]

So is this like Heart of Darkness but less emotionally scaring?

[BigJonno]

Grand Theft Asia: The British Empire

Best. Game. Ever.

[Morangie]

Yep. And it would be funny to see the British government trying to ban the game. I mean, what game could better represent British traditional values then one showing them forcing drugs into their conquered non-white civilizations?
Many respected British families got their fortunes and titles by pillage and drug dealing on East Asia. Nothing more "British family value oriented" than a game simulating that wonderful tradition and history.

Why would our goverment try to ban it? I don't know if you noticed, but the victorian age is over. The empire fell a long time ago.

[camberiu]

Why would the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) ban such a game? For the good of the British children, of couse!!!! Can you imagine what kind of perverse effect such a game would have on the children??? The kids would get to play their great-granpas as they bombed nations and people into submission and exploited them without mercy.

Imagine a game in which a British kid would play an UK soldier in India, merciless beating unarmed hindus as they try to get salt out of their oceans (it was illegal under British law at the time for hindus to collect salt from their own shores). Would be better than any GTA game.

Even better would be a scenario where the player would get to relive the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919, where the British army machine gunned an unarmed crowd of 10,000 hindu protesters. It would be as fun as heck. Just wondering what the BBFC would say.

[RainOfTerror]

blah blah blah...

[Morangie]

So your reasoning is they would try to ban it because you're a British hating idiot? Got it. Just out of curiosity, what would your nationality be? Practically every country in the world has done horrible things to each other at some point. Human history is a long procession of bastards being bastards.

[gorillaman]

The BBFC, camberiu and this game's "avenge your father's death" storyline are all stupid.

[Thenetcase]

As long as I can eat Marmite or vegemite, I don't give a crap how much opium is there... Arrrrr

If ye come any closer I'll blow yar head to kindgom-come, matey!