Patrician III
Patrician III is a real-time trading simulation featuring elements of construction and the historical background of maritime trade in Northern Europe during the 1300's. As a resident of a medieval town, your…
Patrician III is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Ascaron Entertainment, released 15 March 2002 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Patrician III is
Patrician III is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Ascaron Entertainment and released in 2002. It was published by Akella. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Patrician is a 1992 historical trading simulation video game for Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS developed by Ascaron Entertainment and published by Triptychon Software. In the game, the player assumes the role of a merchant in any of several cities of the Hanseatic League, accumulating money, capital and consumer goods, and real estate, expanding his company, and furthering his career at home and abroad.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Patrician III holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 22 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.6 GHz or higher, 512 MB or higher of RAM and 128 MB DirectX 9-compatible (Pixel/Vertexshader 1.1). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 7GB.
What it launched against
Patrician III launched on 15 March 2002, within three weeks of Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast and Heroes of Might and Magic IV. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast, Heroes of Might and Magic IV.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Patrician III yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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