You can invest money in research options on the Venice screen, and slowly gain the ability to build all the regular units that Merchant Prince has, as well as new options to help increase your soldiers' combat abillity, for example, or make your parties more effective.

If you decide to turn this on when you start the game, you only have the ability to buy a few units - small ships, small caravans, one type of soldiers. You can hold the cursor over a icon or option to see a quick description of what it does. There are also nice looking seperate screens for battles, disasters, and other major events, again very nice looking graphically. The main playing screen has all the options on the bottom as a graphics icon.to build roads, for example, you click on a cart. If you're familar with how the the original plays, almost all of it is here, just with updated graphics (which are not 3D quality but very nice), and some updated screens. But given that Merchant Prince is one of our Hall of Belated Fame entrants, that approach definitely has its merits. Merchant Prince II is an excellent sequel to Holistic Design's classic underdog Merchant Prince (which was later updated and published as Machiavelli The Prince by MicroProse).ĭon't expect anything radicaly different or changed from the original game, as Holisitic Design clearly decided to use the 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' approach.

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