Addictive Strategy Game
User Rating: 7 | Europa Universalis III PC
This is a solid game. There are a lot of things to do and learn. You can play the game in so many different aspects that you don’t really finish or win in the game. You can be a aggressive dictator that attacks his neighbors, a diplomatic country who with peace can grow very strong with alliances and turning country into your vassels. One way I’ve tried playing this game is a capitalist approach, I was able to build a strong country into a strong market driven economy that I was able to buy my neighbors support. The religious approach is also another aspect of the game. It took me a few tries to even get my country to even survive after five years. The game has built in help bubbles but some of those bubbles are rather vague. The replay ability on this game is rather high because of the history time span it covers and the ability to choose every country in that time period. The graphics and sound are very bland and get annoying after awhile. There are several bugs in the game but I didn’t install any patches so I don’t know if there were fixed. Most of the time I’ve found that reloading the game gets rid of all graphical bugs. The longer you play though you’ll find your computer system slowing down due to the complexity of the game. If you want a lot of intense fighting this is not the game for you. If you want a more evolved version of Risk than give this game a try.
