<s>
Merchant	B-Application
Prince	I-Application
II	I-Application
is	O
a	O
2001	O
turn-based	O
strategy	O
game	O
of	O
economic	O
,	O
political	O
,	O
and	O
military	O
conquest	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
the	O
sequel	B-Language
to	O
the	O
1994	O
video	O
game	O
Merchant	B-Application
Prince	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Merchant	B-Application
Prince	I-Application
II	I-Application
received	O
"	O
mixed	O
"	O
reviews	O
according	O
to	O
the	O
review	B-Application
aggregation	I-Application
website	O
Metacritic	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
So	O
little	O
was	O
added	O
to	O
gameplay	O
that	O
it	O
was	O
properly	O
a	O
rerelease	O
rather	O
than	O
a	O
sequel	B-Language
,	O
and	O
the	O
changes	O
to	O
the	O
graphics	O
were	O
considered	O
uglier	O
,	O
with	O
a	O
zoomed-in	O
and	O
less	O
user-friendly	O
interface	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
largely	O
panned	O
by	O
critics	O
and	O
even	O
the	O
positive	O
review	O
by	O
IGN	O
called	O
it	O
a	O
"	O
cheap	O
reissue	O
"	O
and	O
pardoned	O
it	O
only	O
because	O
of	O
the	O
difficulty	O
of	O
finding	O
the	O
original	O
DOS	B-Application
games	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Computer	O
Gaming	O
World	O
opened	O
its	O
review	O
,	O
"	O
Merchant	B-Application
Prince	I-Application
2	O
is	O
the	O
kind	O
of	O
title	O
that	O
gives	O
strategy	O
gaming	O
a	O
bad	O
name	O
,	O
"	O
and	O
concluded	O
with	O
,	O
"	O
Mainstream	O
consumers	O
pulled	O
in	O
by	O
the	O
fascinating	O
topic	O
are	O
—	O
once	O
again	O
—	O
going	O
to	O
feel	O
ripped	O
off	O
,	O
confused	O
,	O
dumb	O
,	O
and	O
jaded	O
toward	O
turn-based	O
strategy	O
games.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Kent	O
Conrad	O
found	O
the	O
implementation	O
of	O
the	O
research	O
tree	O
"	O
half-baked	O
"	O
and	O
ended	O
his	O
review	O
with	O
"	O
There	O
is	O
a	O
good	O
game	O
hiding	O
inside	O
of	O
Merchant	B-Application
Prince	I-Application
II	I-Application
,	O
and	O
that	O
game	O
is	O
Machiavelli	B-Application
:	I-Application
The	I-Application
Prince	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Kevin	O
Rice	O
of	O
NextGen	O
,	O
however	O
,	O
said	O
of	O
the	O
game	O
,	O
"	O
It	O
's	O
virtually	O
the	O
same	O
game	O
it	O
was	O
eight	O
years	O
ago	O
,	O
designed	O
to	O
run	O
under	O
Windows	B-Application
instead	O
of	O
DOS	B-Application
,	O
but	O
in	O
the	O
end	O
it	O
's	O
still	O
an	O
entertaining	O
,	O
unique	O
turn-based	O
strategy.	O
"	O
</s>
