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Simply boring!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm a fan of turn-based strategy games, I love civilization (1,2,3), I also like rts games like rise of nations, but this one is simply boring... and complicated. It plays as slow as a turn-based, and doesn't even have half the depth! I couldn't play more than half an hour without wanting to run away screaming!
Horrible!

An almost-great game with a fatal flaw

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 21
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

EU is heartbreakingly close to being one of the best computer games ever produced. Economics, religion, warfare, diplomacy, and exploration have never been so successfully integrated. As several people have pointed out, however, the manual and tutorial are woefully inadequate for such a complex game. You'll find yourself learning this game largely by blind trial and error. But I could live with that, given this game's many other terrific features. The thing that destroyed my interest in EU is the fact that this game cheats OUTRAGEOUSLY in combat. It is not uncommon to lose battles even when you outnumber the AI's forces by 10:1 or more. You can spend game-decades building up your armies and planning campaigns, only to watch your entire empire's armed forces get brutalized by inferior numbers of inferior troops. As long as you never fight another major power you're fine, but should you become involved in a war with another power, expect to do a lot of save-and-restore-ing to counter-act the senseless combat resolution. In my opinion, the game is not playable in its current state.

Am I the only one???

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 19
Date: June 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I know that this game is supposed to be GREAT, I know...I read the reviews of it. So, either I must be the stupidest person in the world, or I must be missing something in the game. FIRST--The bugs that infest this game are HUGE. I have been kicked back to my desktop, so many times it aint funny. I have problems running a game with sound. SECOND--The game is limited. Three land units and three naval units??? Yup. Sure there are upgrades, but you can only make the SAME number of units. Hmm... THIRD and THE MOST IMPORTANT--In my opinion this game just is not FUN. It may be realistic, but afterall it is a GAME. It needs to have some aspects of fun. The battles are lacklustre, the play action is repetive.

If you are a student of history, you MIGHT like this game. If you are not, chances are you wont like it....

close, but no cigar

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: December 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The idea behind the game is certainly great. The simulation of the time (including the Gold Standard and Balance of Power in Europe) is excellent. Gameplay, however, is too difficult and intricate, making it less fun, in my opinion.

Forget it.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 22
Date: April 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This one of the worst games I have purchased for my computer. (I have well over 500.) 1. The tutorial is worthless. It tells you to perform a certain function, but it doesn't tell you how to do it or why to do it. 2. The manual, although chock full of information, is terrible. I guess it would be OK if you are using it as resource material for a Masters Thesis in History. All in all I have to say I've wasted my $40, but hey, it'll make a nice coaster for my beer glass.

Waste of Money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: July 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!! I have played this game for about 16 to maybe 20 hours. How, I don't know. Atari from the stone age made better games. It sounds cool, but it's far, far from that. If you have played Age of Empires II (Age of Kings) then I know what you are looking for. So was I at the time I purchased this game. This game is the exact opposite of Age of Empires. I use the CD as a coaster, the box as a door stop and the case to keep other cds safe. You will regret purchasing this game. I do!

OK, but not great!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: August 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have to vote with the folks who recommend not buying. Terrible manual, clunky-awkward interface, awful tutorial, exceedingly steep learning curve - to name a few problems. It could have been a great game, but it's not. Personally, I think they should take lessons from Sid Meier on how to make a game playable AND enjoyable. Save your money and wait for Civ III, due out in October, 2001.

Boooooring!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: June 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm a fan of turn-based strategy games, I love civilization (1,2,3), I also like rts games like rise of nations, but this one is simply boring... and complicated. It plays as slow as a turn-based, and doesn't even have half the depth! I couldn't play more than half an hour without wanting to run away screaming!

Horrible!

boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: October 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love strategy games.
I still play CIV2, Master of Orion2, CTP2.
And remember others fondly.
This isn't one of them.

This one is just a lame game.

It's slow. Game play is close to non-existent.
conquest is not fun, but tedious.
Marching a group of your soldiers from one of your towns to another and a significant percentage of them will die.
Same with sailing your ships. If you had 3 ships and sailed them from England to Germany, how many would you reasonably expect to make this short voyage? How many if you controlled all the coastal regions in northern europe? If you think all your ships should typically manage to sail for an entire day without sinking, your vision does not agree with this game.
As I said, it's a very lame game.
Save your money for CIV3 or Arcanum.

Empire building, the hard way

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: August 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You should definitely buy this game if you want to know what it is like to micromanage the construction and maintenance of a European empire. I don't. Its too much work. I want to build the empire without all the work. I should have saved my money.

This product is a good (complex) simulation of Europe with interesting (but not excellent) graphics.

Its problems: * Buggy software (It doesn't like running with other software and changed my video mode without restoring it afterward.) * Poor interface (I can't even start to mention all the things that are hard to do and easy to mess up.) * No help managing your units - the only thing they do by themselves is defend when attacked (its a good thing they do!) * No option for alternative geography, so, for example, even though you don't know about the New World, you really do.

I really liked the sound of the game so much that I ignored what the other reviews said. I should have listened.

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