JoWooD has started shipping Industry Giant II, the sequel to the popular Industry Giant, which sold more than 1.6 million copies worldwide. Like its predecessor, Industry Giant II is a game of sink or swim - a PC business simulation game, where players can test their entrepreneurial skills by cultivating resources, creating products, and selling them for a profit. This time around, however, the game places players at the beginning of the booming 20th century, and challenges them to grow their business through the information age.

This is no easy task. Players are responsible for choosing their line of business, extracting and processing raw materials, selecting business locations, building transportation networks, and overseeing sales and advertising. In Industry Giant II, your best weapons are business savvy and entrepreneurial spirit.

Industry Giant II is the perfect game for all levels of PC players, as there are many ways to become the millionaire of your dreams. Helping you climb your way to the top are Industry Giant II’s innovative pop-up menu system, three interactive tutorials, and easy-to-understand rules of play.

Players start out with small regions in a few big cities and small towns where their first task is to determine their populaces’ needs. Choosing among the 150 different products and resources, you then try to satisfy your consumers’ demands by creating anything from wooden toys to bread to computers.

But keeping separate groups of consumers happy is only the beginning. In Industry Giant II, you need to expand in order to become a truly successful entrepreneur. To do this, you need take command of an entire fleet of vehicles. There are over 50 vehicles to choose from including trucks, steam engines, diesel and electric trains, ships and planes.

As you expand your business, you will need to choose the locations of your retail outlets wisely to ensure that the money comes rolling in instead of out. But don't forget to manage your corporate image as you grow. You could soon become very unpopular if, for example, you stick a steel factory in the middle of a fancy suburb. In Industry Giant II there are many interesting ways to keep your consumers happy including corporate sponsorship of a local sports arenas, teams and more.

The developers of Industry Giant II have created a completely new menu system that gives players the best possible overview of their corporate empire without losing any of the detailed information that is crucial to successful business management. For example, there are no fixed menu bars to obscure view of the world map, and one click of the mouse in the landscape calls up a menu that provides access to all the game’s relevant options. The result is almost total player control over the appearance of the game. In Industry Giant II, control over a vast business empire really is at your fingertips.