Before you step into command, it appears to be a massive board game, while in reality it is much more. I want it to be perfectly clear from the outset of this review, that Europa Universalis is not an Age of Empires type strategy game. Players select one of the scenarios or head online to manage and build a nation, all the while keeping other countries at bay.

I just feel that EU4 offers so much more in a single play through.Have you ever dreamt of changing the past? Ever wondered what it would be like if Napoleon never existed? Published by Strategy First and developed by Paradox Entertainment, Europa Universalis is a hardcode strategy title that sends players in to the past to control a nation and attempt to dominate central Europe. I love those games, or at least the memory of them. Please remember I am not doing down the Civilization games. Hell, EU4 is the sort of game I dreamed of playing back when I was playing Civ 2.the fulfilment of that abstract wish that I could do more with my empire.get down to the nitty gritty so to speak. I have to pick what I can do.Īnd frankly I feel I can get so much more out of EU4 than any other strategy game. I don't have as much free time as I used to. I know they are different enough that both have a place in this world, but I'm an older guy now. Europa Universalis 4 has single handedly ruined the 4X genre for me. I cannot bring myself to be enthused about it.Īnd the reason for that is Europa Universalis 4. Yet as I looked up the new Civilization.I felt nothing. I LOVE Civilization, Civilization 2 was a game I played extremely heavily in the mid to late 1990s (before I switched it out for Alpha Centauri) and I've loyally purchased every edition of the game since. My thoughts about this crystallised as I was watching the announcement trailer for the new Civilization.

I'm playing a new session of EU4, this time I am playing Cusco and making a run at the sun god achievement, yet I feel pressed to verbalise my thoughts on my biggest gripe regarding this game.

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