Space Trader: Merchant Marine. The title is pretty much self-descriptive. This is a game that has you ferrying back and forth between planets, buying low and selling high, as you try to amass your fortune. To spice things up a bit, you'll occasionally have the opportunity to collect a bounty on criminals which involves short first-person shooter missions. However, the bulk of your time is spent clicking on various merchants, moving your wares, and then clicking on the next planet to travel to and repeat the process. If it sounds a bit repetitive, that's because it is. Space trading games can be a lot of fun - Freelancer ranks as one of my favorite games of all times - but Space Trader fails to capture the exciting elements of space commerce and leaves you with just the mundane task of hauling cargo back and forth between nondescript star ports.
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GDN writes: "Welcome to the future where you can trade and shoot your way into owning your own star ship. Hermitworks has updated their original release, Spacetrader with Spacetrader: Merchant Marine. This latest incarnation has you flying throughout the galaxy trading everything from iron ore to organs.
SpaceTrader has you starting out in a space port with your newly acquired trading license and little else. The first objective is to work your way into the good graces of a benefactor who will front you the money to get started. As is with most wealthy benefactors, there's a catch, you must go and shoot someone who owes him some money first before her will help you."
Space: truly the financial frontier. Space Trader: Merchant Marine is an inexpensive ticket into the realm of galactic commerce and killing. There are no pan-dimensional levels of depth here, but all things considered, you get more than you pay for, plus the heart and soul of an old-school PC game.
