Capitalism II

Capitalism II is the sequel to the business simulation video game Capitalism. It was created by Enlight and published by Ubi Soft in 2001.

Capitalism II
Developer(s)	Enlight
Publisher(s)	Ubi Soft
Designer(s)	Trevor Chan
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X
Release	NA: December 17, 2001[1] EU: February 15, 2002
Genre(s)	Business simulation
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer

Capitalism II in-game

The player creates and controls a business empire. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world, including marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, importing and retailing. It has two new campaigns (Capitalist Campaign and Entrepreneur Campaign) plus an in-depth tutorial.

The gameplay is very similar to the original version. One noticeable difference from the original Capitalism is that there are fewer products derived from agricultural resources.

Capitalism II will run on modern versions of Microsoft Windows whereas the previous versions would not.

Capitalism II has also been ported to Mac OS X by Virtual Programming.

A new expanded version of Capitalism II, called Capitalism Lab, was released on December 14, 2012.^[2] Capitalism Lab has many new features, improvements and a new concept of challenge games.^[3]

Subsequently, the following DLCs have been released for Capitalism Lab: Subsidiary DLC in 2014,^[4] City Economic Simulation DLC^[5] in 2016, Digital Age DLC in 2018,^[6] and Banking and Finance DLC^[7] in 2020.

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	82/100[8]

Review scores

Publication	Score
Computer Games Magazine	[9]
Computer Gaming World	[10]
GameSpot	8.5/10[11]
GameSpy	83%[12]
GameZone	8/10[13]
IGN	9/10[14]
Jeuxvideo.com	14/20[15]
PC Gamer (UK)	80%[16]
PC Gamer (US)	80%[17]
PC Zone	52%[18]

Reception

The game received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[8]