The Great Art Race

"The Great Art Race" is a Remake of the C64 classic "Vermeer." The Year is 1918. The outstanding Art Collection of our Uncle Walter was stolen. Our Uncle therefore summons five Family members to Berlin, equips everyone with an identical Budget to assemble an outstanding Art collection again in the next Few years. And so we and our Competitors move into the World to make Money and buy Paintings. In doing so, we can travel to some important Cities. In fifteen Cities we can buy Plantations for which we then hire Workers. For Example, we travel to Ankara and buy a Tea Plantation. After a few Days at the Hotel we have a few Tons of Tea. We can have them transported to the two Sales Cities of London or New York. So Tea travelled to London and flight there, which takes a few Days. In London, we then sell the Tea at a Profit. We can also buy Shares of various Transport Companies. Tea from Ankara is transported through the Lloyd, for example. So Our Transport Orders will tend to increase the Value of Lloyd shares in the long term. Some other Actions are also possible. For example, we can buy the Hotels of the Cities in order not to have accommodation costs or to bet on Horse Races. But the most important thing is the Art Auctions. These take place on certain Dates in certain Cities. To participate in the Auction, we also need to be in the City. There is always a Minimum Bid For a Painting. If there are no Competitors, we will be able to purchase the Painting at this reasonable Price and we will be able to hand it over to our Uncle. If we are not alone at the Auction, a Bidding Battle is going on. Foolishly, Images you create at auction can also be fake and thus do not earn Victory points. A large Collection from an art Direction, for example, brings a particularly large Number of points. So You should pay a lot of attention to what Pictures you are offering. The Time Runs are quite Background, although they do not have any really Significant Influence on the Game. Nevertheless, it is quite interesting to read again and again messages from the Time, such as That Richthofen was shot down. "Vermeer" Led the Way at the C64 in 1987, a Milestone. It had a complexity rarely seen For time due to the Intelligent Mechanics, which impressed. By today's Standards, however, the Complexity is quite manageable, many things very repetetive. The fact That one always has to go to one's Plantations in order to pay the Workers and to collect the Harvest would be a Mechanic Today, which would certainly be equipped with an Automation option. The Implementation is well done-but only in English-clean, quite nice, but not exactly outstanding. The Music based on the 1920S is quite fragrant and can quickly get annoying. Today's Players will probably be disappointed if the somewhat simple Mechanics. Older Semesters will realize how grandiose these Mechanics were able to excite the very limited possibilities at that time. Rating: 7/10 Atmosphere 7/10 Story 6/10 Graphic 5/10 Sound 7/10 Game Mechanics 7/10 Balancing 7/10 Game Pass Conclusion: For "Vermeer" Nostalgists. 7/10 Overall Rating