Capitalism II - The game

About a year and a half ago I was in search of strategy- both RTS and turn based games. This was mainly due to my liking of games like Rise of Nations and Civilization IV. But I had enough military action through these games. I was now searching for a more peaceful (I mean no bullets and blood) but more enthralling game. I didn't really care about the graphics that the game presented because I had already played games like Age of Empires ,Wolfenstein ,Doom -Though these games lacked the visual edge, they had the content to make us play these games time and again. Some Google searches and I am introduced this new game - Capitalism II. The first comments on this looked like "The second part way better than the first one". I never plan to play the first part but it was comforting that this was a second installment of the game so I did expect  it to be fun. Moreover this game belonged to a different genre- business. Never really played a business game other than Monopoly. So I grabbed this game.
When I installed the game I told myself this does not have rich visuals. This also brought smiles to my face because my system could run this game without any problems. The introduction video also showed some promise , it was going to be totally about business. The game puts you as the Head of a company. You take all the decisions. You have to build the shops to sell, factories to manufacture and research centers to discover new products. You also get to deal with financial activities of the company like stock options and loans with banks. There is both single-player as well as multi-player. Single-player mode has the campaign mode in which you are given some specific scenarios to complete. You can also start a game with your own scenario. You are engaged in the company activities completely. The best part is the variations you can implement and experience. You can build from a car to a camera, rare sheep and sell leather or sell a silicon chip or the entire computer system itself.

I liked the games idea. I started playing ,but as usual,very early I was totally involved in winning the game (be better than your competitor in the market). Initially it was so difficult for me to really stay up to the computer AI but I learnt the trade pretty quickly. I usually manufacture and sell the items which have more profit margin and try to make more money out of the apartments. I also like to control the manufacture to the root hence will have factories to build from the scratch rather than depend upon the Seaport and other suppliers.

If you want to play a game which is of strategy genre with a difference then this game is worth a try.