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Excellent game. Not just a historical simulation.
This is probably one of the best true strategy games about. It has an innovative system which is highly addictive. Some reviews wrote this off as a historical simulation rather than a game. I dont think they had played it properly. My one criticism is that the manual is lousy and if you buy it I recommend you go to the manufacturers website to get clarification of the rules.
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Strategy and politics at its best
Europa Universalis is one of these games that just glue you to your computer. You dont care about your social life, food, sleep, work or anything else. The only thougts in your head are better ways to make France surrender or making colonization of India successful. There are few games where there is that magic. Maybe the detail level that lets you control nearly every aspect of your civilization, maybe challenging gameplay, maybe just everything makes it the game of your dreams. Dont let the real-time strategy tag fool you. Comparing it to other real-time strategy games like Red Alert or Warcraft, is like comparing the most advanced computer to date with the pocket calculator. More real, more complex, more options, less latex-dressed maidens.
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Europa Universalis Impressions
I had long anticipated this game, so when I finally got my copy I was very exited and had very high expectations. Unfortunately, the games tutorial and the manual was not what I had hoped for, and thus I was a bit disappointed. But, when I started out playing the "Grand Campaign" were one gets to control one of the superpowers of the era (1492-1792), I came to truly love the game. I played my first game as Sweden, and sat for 12 hours in a row before my girlfriend forced me to get some sleep. The game has so many elements that make it fun, interesting, educational and quite historically correct. With relative ease it is possible to edit the scenario files so that you can not only play the "superpowers", but any nation, like Persia, The Aztecs, Japan and even puny nations like The Knights of St. John with only one province to start off with. I would like to recommend this game to anyone remotely interested in history and strategy. I would have liked to give the game five starts, but because of the poor manual (there is a superb online game forum that compensates somewhat for this) and the daft tutorial, I can only give it four.
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CD/DVD Tower - PSX2
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"I love watching DVDs and listening to music on the PS2, with the sound station on full. The problem is that I have no-where to put the disks!" That all changed when I bought the disk tower. It has a sleek design which fits both 8 and 12cm CDs and/or DVDs. Along with matching the PS2s colour scheme,..
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CD/DVD/Memory Card Carry Case - PSX2
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The case is very nice and is adequately sturdy, but I have to say, whats the point? Why would someone want to carry their PS2 around with them? (unless theyre going to play it during their lunch hour.) The product is good, but without a purpose. All I have to say to the designer is, "Nice try, but i..
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Baldurs Gate - White Label Range (DVD Packaging)
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Baldurs Gate is a near-perfect adaptation of the classic table-top role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Six separate races and eight core character classes, from which the player can create a completely original character, are available. The game world is well painted and players are free to explore this wonderfully textured game environment in any way they see fit, all against the backdrop of a thoughtfully conceived and versatile plot. You begin the game as a young orphan liv..
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Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines - Premier Range (DVD Packaging)
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Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines places you in the command of one to six soldiers (known as, naturally, the commandos), all with their own sets of skills, strengths and weaknesses. The game defies standard real-time strategy conventions by eschewing such typical features as resource accumulation and unit creation. Pyro Studios and Eidos Interactive, in changing the way real-time strategy games are played, have moulded Commandos: BEL into a far more tactical and strategic game than its..
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Sony DVP-NS300 Black DVD Player
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The DVP-NS300 is Sonys entry-level DVD player, but still boasts the comprehensive set-up controls of the more expensive models. It also carries Sonys TV Virtual Surround and a Block Noise Reduction system to improve picture quality. On professionally encoded modern DVDs the effect of this is negligible, but it does help with some of the early DVDs which were poorly encoded, helping to reduce artefacts. The first thing that strikes you about this player as you pull it from its box, is that it ..
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