Empire II: Interstellar Sharks

Empire II: Interstellar Sharks is a 1982 video game published by Edu-Ware Services Inc. It is the second game in the Empire trilogy, preceded by Empire I: World Builders (1981) and followed by Empire III: Armageddon (1983).[2]

Empire II: Interstellar Sharks
Box cover
Developer(s)Interactive Fantasies
Publisher(s)Edu-Ware Services[1]
Designer(s)David Mullich
SeriesEmpire
Platform(s)Apple II
Release1982

Gameplay

Set at the height of the galactic Imperial civilization, 1200 years after the setting of World Builders, the player chooses one of three classes (pilot, businessman, or diplomat) and attempts to accumulate enough wealth to outfit a private spacecraft in order to travel to Triskelion—the capital of the Empire—and confront the Empress.[3]

Reception

A review in Softalk concluded:

Interstellar Sharks plays considerably better than the first game in the series. However, be prepared to spend an enormous amount of time developing each character. Psychologically, Interstellar Sharks wears a player down fast. The sheer weight of the simulated red tape and procedural hindrances slows the game down to a crawl just when you feel like soaring. Still, if you persevere to the end, you'll feel a real sense of accomplishment—rare in computer games but common to Edu-Ware's products.[4]

gollark: english bad french bad german bad all natural languages bad some conlangs good
gollark: Or, well, in this case tools for making computers do what you want, and to some extent telling other programmers what you mean.
gollark: Don't quite a lot of professions end up doing this?
gollark: I feel like that might not work too well, since it uses a lot of lower-level Lua stuff to manage stuff like sandboxing.
gollark: Should I rewrite potatOS in Amulet?

References
  1. Bowker, R.R. (November 1983). Bowker/Bantam 1984 Complete Sourcebook of Personal Computing. Bantam Electronic Publishing. p. 254. ISBN 978-0-8352-1765-1.
  2. Tringham, Neal Roger (10 September 2014). Science Fiction Video Games. CRC Press. pp. 153–154. ISBN 978-1-4822-0389-9.
  3. Stephenson, Linda (February 1983). "Futuristic Finance". New Software. InCider. Vol. 1 no. 2. Peterborough, NH: 1001001 Inc. p. 171.
  4. Comstock Tommervik, Margot, ed. (August 1983). "Interstellar Sharks". Marketalk Reviews. Softalk. Vol. 3 no. 12. North Hollywood, California: Softalk Publishing, Inc. p. 168. ISSN 0274-9629 – via Internet Archive.
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