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Space Trader: Merchant Marine

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Space Trader: Merchant Marine

Rating: 2.4 (27 votes cast)

Many years from now, humanity is ruled by The Ministry of Accounts, an oppressive bureaucracy that tracks, records and taxes every transaction of daily life. From the depths of Red Tape, a new breed of marketeer arises to challenge the authority and make a profit: the Space Trader is born! As a Trader, players will attempt to amass a fortune beyond their wildest imaginations, buying and selling commodities as well as taking up arms against the oppressors and even accepting bounty missions, hunting down crime bosses and their thugs.

Trader Campaign: Start as a rookie trader and earn your way to Master Trader using shrewd trades, back alley deals, bribes, a well placed bullet and more through a challenging 5-level single-player campaign.

Three Ways to Challenge: Master your trading skills in three unique challenge missions; Moon Madness, Free Trade and Red Eye Trader.

From Iron Ore to Organs: Turn misfortune to profit. Buy low, sell high. Over 40 different commodities to supply the demand.

Have Ship, Will Travel: Visit seven planetary locations, their moons and stops along the way and interact with over 100 characters. Conflict

Builds Character: Using an assortment of unique weapons, bring dozens of crime bosses to justice and turn a tidy profit.

Competitive Cooperative: Challenge your friends and family, not just your peers. Working together has never been so competitive!

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Space Trader: Merchant Marine review

By ZIGS posted 31st Dec 2011

If you can get it for cheap, I suppose it's worth it. There's some parts where it plays just like an action FPS and others where you talk to people and buy/sell goods. The gameplay is nothing special so the shooting bits aren't particularly thrilling. Graphics are decent but again, nothing special. If you're looking for something different and can get it for cheap, I guess you could get your money's worth out of it

Space Trader: Merchant Marine review

By joetheshmoe posted 13th Sep 2011

If you like trading in games this game has stream-lined it a lot and may not be for you. First off every time you go to a different planet commodities will spawn around the map for you to pick up (which always confuses me).

There are also bounties you can pick up which, after accepted, will bring you to 1 of 3 areas on that planet; you spawn with a pistol where there are commodities also over these maps and 3 different weapons to pickup (Shotgun, Assault Rifle, and Machine Pistol). There will be randomly spawned enemies everywhere and after a while or enemy deaths the person you are looking for will spawn. The AI is not that great and will be stuck in areas from time to time, and if you happen to die you get 2 more chances to try and beat this. You may get "spawn-camped" if the enemy happens to go where you spawn. The combat actually reminds of a worse made Quake.

The story for the game deep at all, but what can you expect for this amount of money. There is an issue with the graphics: the game starts windowed and you can't change the size of the window or if you happen to click maximize you can't undo it.

Overall I still enjoyed the game with all its flaws and might still pick it up from time to time.

Space Trader: Merchant Marine review

By GuySalvidge posted 10th Nov 2009

Actually I quite enjoyed this game. It's nothing special, but for a budget title it is a good use of 10-15 hours. The way it works is that you walk around in various settings, picking up tasks and trading goods in the time honoured fashion. There are a number of short campaigns, but you can also play a one-off game. There is a first person shooter component to the game that many find annoying, but I don't really mind. The AI is almost non-existent though and the maps are very repetitive. Overall, this game ends up being too easy and you will master it in 15 hours or so, but if you like trading sims that are quite easy on the brain, then this might be the game for you.

Space Trader: Merchant Marine review

By vasian posted 3rd Jun 2009

As a first person shooter, when you do that part of the game, there's nothing special. As a game in general, I suppose if you like the same thing over and over again with limited stuff to do, it's great. Unfortunately, I don't.