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Difficult interface and buggy
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 16 / 22
Date: June 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User
Sort of like RISK on steroids, EU tries to do many things in this zone conquest game. Unfortunately, the user interface is unintuitive and clunky. Given the number of things you need to worry about, this makes the game frustrating. It is not turn based, so as you try to figure out how to send those colonists, the computer is running at full throttle. I have also had many crashes and a patch has already been released to let you load a saved game. How can a game be released that can't even load a saved game. This is a quick and dirty port and it shows.
Challenging
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User
Very challenging game! Expects serious commitment from the player in terms of learning mechanics --after going throught the tutorial and playing three games, I am still unclear on some of the finer points. Great depth and detail... actual historical events affect gameplay. Definitely one of the neatest ways I've seen to make history come alive.
I have not experience the crashes another reviewer commented on... there is a downloadable update available from the publisher.
Terrible interface and tutorial
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User
The game looks really cool, and it looks very detailed. However I've not even moved a man. The tutorial is horrendous, didn't have the patience for it. Other games I've tried have excellent tutorials where they walk you thru the interface. This tutorial has a bunch of popup windows that move all around the screen so you have to keep jumping around to close them, I'd close one and another would immediately open. I couldn't figure out how to stop this tutorial popup frenzy so I had to suffer thru it. The manual has a lot of detail about game concepts, but not enough in the way of game interface and how to perform rudimentary things. I've never launched a game before that I couldn't figure out by experimenting. Every time I click on a button to see what it does, my map disappears and nothing I click on will get it back, and nothing in the manual would tell me how to retrieve it. Ended up having to quit and restart the game. Very frustrating!
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