Europa Universalis III

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Product Features

• ¿ Manage more than 100 individual unit troops to secure possible. With
• more than 1,000 historical leaders and 4,000 monarchs.
• ¿ Co-operative multiplayer mode allows several players to work together to control a single nation
• ¿ Customize your game: Europa Universalis III gives you the chance to customize and mod practically anything

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000MX68LK
• Item Weight: 12 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: January 23, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,102 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Lead any one of more than 250 countries that originally existed starting at any date between 1453 and 1789.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

46 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive! Beware!, February 7, 2007

By 

Rowdy P. Scarlett "Yeah, I can dig it....a li... (Winston Salem, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Europa Universalis III (CD-ROM)

I have had the game less than a week and have already spent WAY too much time playing. It's great! The AI is very good. Lots of decision making in the form of alliances, builing up your country, manpower, diplomancy, war, merchants and more. Yet, you don't get bogged down "micromanaging" everything. Planning for the long term is necessary and acheiving "victory" is what you make of it. Just surviving for 300 years could be considered a great victory for the likes of Barvaria or Serbia. You have control to make and create history.
The game has been visually redesigned as well. It looks great. It's not World of Warcraft, but compared to EU2 it's leaps ahead of it. An upgrade is already available (for free) from the publishers on thier website. The game comes on one CD and is quick to load. A great game for lovers of history and gaming.

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Third Time IS the Charm, July 30, 2007

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Mike Jensen (Oklahoma, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Europa Universalis III (CD-ROM)

I have purchased each release upgrade in this game series and, in my opinion, EU III is by far the best in the series. Unlike other reviewers I really like the new look of the game and the ease and access to more information you get from the other views of the map - terrain, political, religious, etc. - really an enhancement. As to the divergence from historical events, I rather like the play of this edition better than the slavish approach of EU II to history which caused things to happen that, in the context of the game being played, made no sense at all.

The big plus to me is that I have not encountered any bugs in EU III after many hours of play. EU II was very buggy, even after downloading patches. III has been solid.

Another thing I really enjoy is that the economic logic really makes sense - you don't have to experience hyper-inflation as was inevitable in II. The national development options also make better sense. I enjoy the military improvements - vastly superior to previous releases; the whole game is just better in every way.

I absolutely love these games and am deeply addicted to playing them at virtually every opportunity. If you enjoy thinking about what you're doing and really planning things and then watching your vision take shape, this game is a winner hands down!!

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent game on par with Paradox, April 23, 2007

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M. Haiss - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Europa Universalis III (CD-ROM)

You need a somewhat modern system with a video card that supports Pixel Shader 2.0 to play this game. If you don't you will be disappointed.

The game itself is incredible and blows away it's predecessor EU2. The new 3d graphics are nice and the interface is quite easy to grasp. Of course this being a Paradox game there are bugs, but with their user feedback forum and participation of the dev staff in said forum, patches have been released fixing many of the issues.

If you liked EU2, Victoria, or HOI...you will LOVE this game