Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun
- Control your nation from the early 19th century to the early 20th century
- Revolutionary simulation of the industrialization of the world
- Build up military might, industrialization potential, and national prestige
- Send explorers to map out the inside parts of Africa and the Americas
- Full-scenario editor and complete multiplayer support
Product Description
Guide your nation owing to nearly one hundred years of history! Gather wealth and strength to stay ahead of your enemies, gain invaluable prestige and distinction – reform your nation into a free democracy or guide your people down the grim road of revolution.
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You see, I told you so in my early post this game would be less than $15 within 6 months. I’ve been playing sports meeting for 35 years and I know a FLOP when I see one, and knowing PARADOX’s ways, I knew the game would be a flop out of the box. It’s just not that splendid of a game like the man fanboi’s that rushed here and posted how splendid of a game it is. That’s why is “SAVES” to listen to outsiders who will give critical and “honest” opinions of the game based on “mechanics”, “manual”, “tutorial” and general bugginess like I do when these new sports meeting come out. I have the ability to play the sports meeting and return them when they are flops, many people do not. Thus I can give honest and honest reviews of these sports meeting and not be BIASed like the man fanboi’s that have posted not more than me.
Those who listened to me, you can now see the savings I told you about. I still predict and even lower price in another few months, but, for the less than $10 now, for those that like this particular time cycle and since they’ve finally FIXED the game and it works as it should have out of the box, it’s a worthy buy. In person I have no interest in this time cycle except for sports meeting like Railroad Industrialist or Industry Giant II, those two sports meeting are much more FUN to play if you like more of a beer and pretzels type of finacial game, sure Victoria has some military efforts, but, they are so abstract and not really necessary for this type of game platform. Buy it with the pleasure of knowing you’re getting a finished product and something of interest to you of this time cycle. And you can thank me for reduction you some cash.
Rating: 1 / 5
Paradox sports meeting is probably best known for Europa Universalis II, a game that is sometimes fun to play for small periods but that is fatally flawed in longer sports meeting (mostly because of the “unrest” factor, but also because the game is too locked in to actual historical events).
Last year Paradox used the EU2 engine to produce a global WWII grand approach game, Hearts of Iron, which is also fun to play but still seriously flawed (many reviewers have commented on the gameplay problems and sheer bugginess of HOI). In Victoria, Paradox uses the same engine yet again to cover the “Victorian” era.
A grand approach game of this cycle is not a terrible thought. But the EU2/HOI platform is just not the best way to go about this. For some reason, the designers seem to like having the world broken up into hundreds of microscopic tiny small provinces. This was an OK mechanism in EU2, where you are usually all ears on a moderately small geographic area. But for a globe-across Empire game, this province-based system is just a huge headache, too crowded and cluttered. Paradox really needs to re-reflect their system and come up with something fresh; either hexes, a zone-less system, or something else novel. What looked kind of cool 5 years ago looks very stale now.
There are also sure to be lots and lots of bugs. Even now, a year or so after the release of HOI, there are still dozens of known bugs, some of them honest, that haunt the game. The player community always tries to brown-nose Paradox to keep on their excellent side so that they will continue to release more patches, but their patches often introduce even more bugs. Pay a visit to the Paradox website and check out the bug forums for their other sports meeting. Judging from their past performance, it will be many months before this game is patched up enough to be considered playable.
Rating: 1 / 5
the concept of the game is splendid! half the stuff you can let the AI do for you concerning econimics, trade, manpwer, military leaders, et al. but some basic stuff like changing from army to navy management cant be done! or seeing and possibly retreating from certain territories under atack! to heck with diplomacy if you cant do these basics forget it!
Rating: 1 / 5
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to rule a nation during the cultured Victorian era? I know I have, and now thanks to Paradox entertainment we all have our chance.
Running a nation is no simple affair, but with many options available to you, why not give it a go? Ruling from the mid 19th century to early 20th century, it is possible to establish a colonial empire, gain land in the civilized continent of Europe, mayhap to save the decaying Ottoman empire?
This has to be one of the most fun sports meeting out there, and I reflect it will exceed even the acclaimed Europa Universalis series. It is INDEED a excellent buy if you are a fan of approach sports meeting or history.
It is also an brilliant learning tool as if teaches 19th century history in an droll game setting.
J.
Rating: 5 / 5
A really addictive game- LOTS of detail. Needs a better tutorial to walk you owing to all the features- but once you get it down…it is a wonderful dissipate of time!
Rating: 4 / 5