Capitalism Plus

"If your looking for the best business simulation on the market, this is it."

Capitalism Plus - A business simulation

Premise / Story - 10/10: Capitalism Plus is a game designed by Trevor Chan (Designed the Seven Kingdoms series and the original Capitalism), in which you are a budding entrepreneur that wants to make big money in the world of business. It's what I like to call a 'spreadsheet game', in which numbers are a big thing.

Gameplay - 10/10: It's all about making products and selling them. Selling is the easy part. Making is the hard part. Perhaps if you were, say, making beds, you would have to acquire the timber to make them through overseas suppliers or make a logging camp, then ship them off to a factory. In the factory, you must link inventory to manufacturing, and sell the beds off to your department stores. You can conquer several product markets and industries if you are good. There are other ways to create more profit for your company. You can also start up mines, oil wells, and farms. In all these various ventures, you must link units of employees working different portions like purchasing, manufacturing, sales, etc. together to make them work. You can even takeover other companies by buying a large portion of their stock. If your being drained by all the micromanagement, you can hire a president to help you with operating the various companies under your control. There's lots of things to look at, like how well your products are known and liked, the quality of your products, the stock price of your company, gross profits from each product, cost of training employees, etc. Sometimes it can be mind-boggling to get through all these details, though if you can handle it the game's pretty cool. The computer AI is competent and sometimes a ruthless businessman if given an agressive personality.

Graphics - N/A: Graphics are not really a factor in this game, since this is a spreadsheet game. All you see graphics-wise are cities, land, and sea from a top-down view.

Sound and Music - 6/10: The music is okay, and the sound is fitting enough. Nothing spectacular or anything.

Replayability - 10/10: There's so much things to do in this game, that if you can tolerate everything you can keep coming back for more!

Overall Score - 9/10: A great game for this even remotely interested in business, corporations, and finance.

Lookover Scores:
Premise/Story - 10/10
Gameplay - 10/10
Graphics - N/A
Sound and Music - 6/10
Replayability - 10/10
Overall Score - 9/10

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 11/20/01, Updated 11/20/01