4Head Studios is busy working on a new title, The Guild II, a sequel to their Europe 1400: The Guild. Taking place in medieval times in Europe, you control a family destined for great power and wealth. Gamespot compares it’s main gameplay with The Sims, though The Guild II has a more strategic aspect. 4 professions will be available to you, two of them are merchant and smith. Whether you want to become an honest business man, or a criminal, is up to you. The Guild II will offer larger maps and up to 5 towns on 1 map, compared to the 1 town per map in it’s predecessor. A new 3D engine will make the eye candy a lot more attractive.
The Guild II is the follow-up to 4Head Studio’s 2002 game 1400: The Guild, which was a great economic simulation about life in the Middle Ages. In The Guild II, you’ll control a family dynasty as it attempts to carve its way up the economic and social ladder of late medieval society. The gameplay might best be described as The Sims, only with a strategic game mixed in with it.
In The Guild II, you’ll create a patriarch or matriarch for a medieval family, and from there, you’ll decide how to make your fortune. You can be a merchant or a smith or two other professions, and you’ll build up an economic base by constructing buildings such as foundries and by hiring workers to produce goods. You’ll also have to worry about the future, so there’s a social game where you must find and woo a prospective mate to produce offspring that will grow up and take over the family business.