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Appalling & Absolutely Awful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: November 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If I could give this PC game a lower rating, I would. Paradox Interactive has dropped the ball and is selling a catastrophe for $40. This isn't just a bad game, it's bad software outright. The poor user interface renders this PC adaptation simply unuseable - failure at almost every turn. But don't let these reviews fool you, the board game is wonderful (buy it instead or search the internet for a free Diplomacy software).

For a review I mostly agree with, go here:
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/diplomacy-2005/665958p1.html

Buggy and Slow

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: November 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Yet another game apparently written without any concept of how do build a stable, reliable application. You'll do better to download just about any free game from the Web. Avoid!

Terrible Software - Very frustrating experience

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: December 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I don't generally complain about poor software development and user experience --- I've seen a lot of bad stuff --- but Paradox Diplomacy really takes the cake.

After buying the packaged software for myself, my Uncle and two friends, and upgrading via patch to version 1.3, we were unable to play on the Metaserver AND when we tried to play via LAN, one player kept being randomly disconnected.

The upgrade process and redundant registration process are a joke.

The slow load time is annoying. The AI is sub-par.

Buy the board game.

blankety blank blank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

it had great promise... but, alas alak, after spending a few hrs learning the tutorials and reading the manual, and having a few minutes of winning....it started showing what the other reveiwers c/o...multiple bugs, screw ups, frustratingly getting frozen, not allowing the player to make his moves during a turn, not alowing a easily readable playing interface....not letting you see what a fellow's treaty proposal is/was....i finally got so upset, i broke the CD and tore the box and manual into smll peices! i may not buy another avaon hill comp game in a long while!

DO NOT BUY!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What a crappy game. All the other reviews have pretty much spelled out the plethora of problems with it. If you're looking for a good strategy game (what I was hoping for) try Rome: Total War. Don't make my mistake--don't get this game!

Difficult to use

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I play the board game and enjoy it. I have played the old PC game and found it useful but not particularly challenging. When this game came out, I was eager to get it. I have spent two sessions trying to get through all the set-up and directions and find them laborious at best. It promises good features, but I haven't yet waded through all the muck to reach them. Since I've already paid for it and I enjoy Diplomacy, there will probably come a day when I try again to get it up-and-going, but probably not today.

I should have listened

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This product has too many bugs in it to make it playable. When you're going against AI, and one of the players sends you a treaty, you don't even get to see what they're proposing. You're just supposed to say yes or no. I wouldn't do that in real life, would you?
Combat doesn't move smoothly either. They only time there's no problem is when you move into an empty territory, otherwise it gets choppy. The avatars can get annoying, and you can't get support on it from Paradox's website, just a forum to leave a message in? What about a patch? The other site address on the box doesn't come up with anything.
I should have heeded the other reviews and skipped this game. Learn from my mistake.

DO NOT BUY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Very buggy, very slow, poor graphics, the list goes on...

By far the worst game I have ever purchased. Paradox should be ashamed of selling this garbage.

Thank god I only spent $10 (including shipping).

Buying fast food would have been a better investment!

Like watching paint dry

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 16
Date: July 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I had never played the board game, but I'd heard good things about it, so I bought the computer version in a store on impulse. It was one of the worst purchases I've ever made.

Usually when I play a strategy game I just dive right in and see how the computer players crush me so that I can get a feel for the game. I tried that right off the bat with Diplomacy: I made no alliances and moved no armies. The instructions had warned "you'll need to have allies in order to survive," so I expected to be wiped out in a few turns.

Nope. I watched turn after turn (year after year in game time) as the other players shuffled armies back and forth to no apparent purpose. After thirty "years" no one had conquered any significant territory, and I finally quit the game.

I played a few more times experimenting a bit. I tried raising all the players to the highest skill level. I tried making crazy bargains and alliances. I made promises and broke them. Still absolutely nothing of interest happened. It made for a lovely opportunity to contemplate world peace, but a fun game it was not.

I could have tried to conquer Europe myself, but with such pitifully uninteresting opponents I couldn't muster enough interest to try. I have no doubt the editorial review is right when it says you can win in twenty minutes or so, but I didn't see the point.

Just awful, a huge disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Diplomacy's one of my favorite games ever, and so I bought the computer version on sight. What a bad move.

First, the AI is dreadful. The computer couldn't fight its way out of a paper bag, much less take over Europe.

Worse, the interface is completely unusable. The various players hurl diplomatic overtures so fast that you can't follow what's what.

It's just a godawful mess. Avoid avoid avoid.

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