Każdy kto grał w Vermeer 100% na Commodore albo na Amidze powinien zagrać w The Great Art Race. Można sobie przypomnieć grę z dzieciństwa, do której zawsze będę miał sentyment.

Klasyk z dzieciństwa, miałęm kiedyś na płytce z Cd-Action cyz innej Cybermychy, zagrywałem się godzinami, oczywiście płytkę zgubiłem, o grze zapomniałem i pewnego dnai znalazłem ją na Steamie. :) Jedynym minusem jest jak dla mnie nieco zbyt powtarzalna rozgrywka, któaz czasem nudzi. Ale za tę cenę - warto!

If You liked Vermeer on Commodore 64 or Amiga, then that's great remake. With actual piantings and an art course for dummies.
I really like ik.

Just like Veermeer on C64

Jest dokładnie taka jaką pamiętam z dziecińśtwa. Oprawa graficzna bardzo się zestarzała oraz język polski niestety nie jest wspierany i to tyle z minusów. Jeśli chcesz pobawić się w ekonomistę, poszerzyć wiedzę na temat sztuki, czy przypomnieć sobie najważniejsze wydarzenia historyczne po I wojnie światowej, to ta gra jest dla Ciebie!

A remake of the classic C64 game Vermeer. So not a board game and should not be confused for one....

By building plantations with different crops you're trying to create enough wealth to get the best art collection. To make things intresting there's stock trading, an auction where you try to buy the paintings and scripted events from the historic timeline(early 20th century) that affect markets. For the paintings you also have the option of studying art directions so you can spot fakes. Or to raise price for your competitors who might not even realise what you're doing... Good fun.

Dziala i Polecam:) Takie gry jak ta to polecam:) P.s.- Pamieta ktos gre w jezyku niemieckim na C 64??? VERMER ??? to to jest nowsza wersja z grafika i kupilem ta gre i dziala:) Zasady sa te same ze masz kase jezdzis po swiecie zakladasz plantacje herbaty ka ka o tytoniu kawy i za kase plonow masz kase i jezdzisz se na aukcje i kupujesz obrazy lecz trzeba uwazac na podrobki i trzeba uzbierac cala legalna kolekcje obrazow i tez mozna kupowac na gieldzie papiery czy aukcje i w banku pozyczki zaciagac:) w tej wersji to jeszcze kupowac hotele ale wtedy za hotel nic sie nie placi plus sa expeycje:) wiec wiele nowego zapraszam i polecam:)

What an interesting little gem of a game this is.

I had my eyes on Patrician III, as it was well reviewed was on sale for less then a dollar. Then I see it comes in a bundle with two other games. This one, The Great Art Race, perked my interest a bit. Only in a bundle? Not for sale on it's own? It can't be that good then.

My mistake completely.

What we have here is an extremely solid resource management/board game. Essentially you play as one of five nephews/nieces to a rich uncle, who is terminally ill and wishes one of you to inherit his fortune. The condition? Become insanely wealth and then use said wealth to attend art auctions in hopes of finding and retrieving his stolen artwork. And how does someone become insanely wealthy? By travelling to smaller cities like Bombay, Guatemala, Mexico City and Saint Louis, among others, and buying up land for plantations and hiring workers.

There's a pattern to the game. You visit your plantations and pay your workers, ship the goods to London or New York for sale, go to one of those cities to sell them at the market value or sign future dated contracts to sell them at a higher price, and then when all that is done you can find an auction to attend. No auctions? Maybe you can attend an activity for the exclusive social club you're all members of. Horse racing to bet on? Maybe take an expensive expedition in a foreign land in hopes of finding something valuable? Maybe visit your uncle and get drunk with him, or help him re-arrange his salon? This all raises your reputation which can result in you getting a bonus paining at the end of the year.

Maybe you can attend an art class to determine if a painting is real or fake (basically allowing you to make sense of the included decoder file)

There are two game modes. The main one tasks you with locating the most paintings, with bonuses for all paintings of a series and for the aforementioned bonus paintings. The other tasks you with just having the most assets, with paintings adding to your overall value. Each one can be played against any combination of computer players or human players via hotseat. You can also set the difficulty, and set the length of the game to 2, 5, or 7 years.

There's a fair bit of depth here. It's quite fun all in all, even on your own. The music for the cities is catchy, and the colorful graphics and sound effects make it a pleasant audio and visual experience. Having not played either Darkstar One or Patrician III (the other games in the bundle) yet I cannot comment on them but The Great Art Race is so enjoyable it alone is worth the cost of the bundle.

A completely unknown game that me and my mate decided to play one evening, which ended up being an entire weekend.

It's a confused game that is part whodunnit, part resource / trading sim, part art lesson, but it's handled well and if you're willing to take it on with an open mind you can get some genuine fun out of it.

Fun, interesting, a mix of developing plantations in different parts of the world with saving to buy paintings, while gambling stocks or betting on horses.
It has short to long games, so you can choose what you want and get an end game.