Take control as Maximilan! Short, bad tempered and utterly insane. You are fabulously wealthy industrialist. Your ambition is to control the world through advance research and technological supremacy.

Raised in rural Austria by foster parents, Maximilian did not have the happiest of childhoods. Already the bully’s favourite because of his stockiness and squint; the young Maximilan became even more isolated from his peers when he developed chronic stress-related alopecia after a weekend-long ritual beating from his foster father, incurred for the crime of looking at him askew.

Such early setbacks might have deterred lesser men, but bit only made Maximilian stronger, and he went on to found an extremely lucrative empire, fuelled by a desire to prove his worth to the world. Yet even his riches, Maximilian found himself rejected by his friends and beautiful women he thought he could buy. Spurned once more, he turned to misanthropy, and began to plot his revenge. If he could not make the world like him, he would have to make the world fear him…

Maximilian’s industrialist background means he has a strong interest in scientific research. If you play as Maximilian, you will get a reduction to any cash incentive payment used during the research process.