Wall Street Raider 6.00

Some people think that playing computer games is quite an efficient waste of time. They’re opinion is that as long as you’re not spending that time to acquire some useful information, then you are in fact wasting of killing time. The same cannot be said about a came called Wall Street Raider – no it is not a variation of Tomb Raider, you don’t go running about Wall Street shooting badies left and right.

The game Wall Street Raider was developed by Ronin Software, a company which in its own words “authors and publishes useful, timely, and authoritative business information with a tax, legal and financial flavor.” As you can imagine, the game they developed is not your run of the mill shoot’em up game.

Wall Street Raider is in fact at financial market or stock market simulator. So if anyone comes up to you and tells you you’re wasting your time playing computer games, just tell him you’re honing your business skills. What do you actually do in the game? As previously mentioned, the game is a sophisticated financial simulation that brings the stock market and business world into your home. You have to build a corporate empire by any means necessary, be them fair or, let’s say not so fair. At all times you need to stay one step ahead of the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), Justice Department, EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), SEC (Security and Exchange Commission) and the competition obviously.

To stay ahead and build up your corporate empire you will have to make some pretty difficult choices at times – difficult from an ethical point of view. On top of that you will have to put up with economic, natural and manmade disasters that could bring your empire to the ground.

Up to 5 players can take part in the game (this includes the computer). You can take over and lead up to 1590 companies from 70 industry branches.

Pros

• Fun and addictive game

Cons

• The demo version can be played for a limited amount of time.
• The demo version uses fictional names; the registered version uses real company names.
• You cannot change company names, stock symbols, and the nation of a corporation in the demo version.

Wall Street Raider has been reviewed by George Norman on 18 Mar 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated Wall Street Raider 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent