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John-SJ
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Silicon Valley, USA
Aug 1999
time: 21:14
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I know it's a bit late out the door but I just got notification from EBWORLD that my EU pre-order has SHIPPED!
Now the anticipation builds!
For reference, I did my pre-order on February 3rd.
John-SJ
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Dr Strangelove
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Alas! We've nothing but Babbage's and Best Buy in my hometown. Babbage's won't get EU until Feb, 28, but there is no word when it will make it to local retailers.
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"I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!
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Dr Strangelove
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Hmmmm. I wonder if it would be possible for someone to develop an expanded version of the game into a "Civilization Universalis"?
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Savant
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The Mountain Empire
Jul 1999
time: 00:14
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quote:
I have a bad feeling that this games gonna suck... just from what few reviews Ive seen and stuff... so I wouldnt get your hopes up...
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I got my hopes up and I am not disappointed. What it takes to like the game:
- an interest in strategy games
- a curiousity about history
- finding greater pleasure in strategy than tactics
- high historical fidelity but history that can be changed, sometimes dramatically
- enjoying subtleties like religious, geographic, economic, technology, weather, season, and a multitude of other factors that vary across some 70+ potential opponents
- finding that all this is still manageable with a few hours of game play under your belt
- customizability by editing some text files - you can play virtually any of the 70+ nations
- 128 mb of RAM for the later years when the game may slow if you are just meeting minimum specs
I have been a devoted civ-type game player for a decade and this game is simply the best game I have ever played, including Civ1, 2, and all the variants. It is not a game for you if you don't like to think and you are just looking for targets to shoot at.
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'Blood will run'
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Savant
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The Mountain Empire
Jul 1999
time: 00:14
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BTW, I am an alum of Va Tech (UT PROSIM). Since when did people on campus start speaking so slovenly? Do me and other Tech alums a favor and change your "location" to U Miami or some such place OK?
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'Blood will run'
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Leonidas
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I just bought the game yesterday. I rarely pay full price for a game - but I did for this one - and it's worth every penny. It is a beautiful game. Full of depth and strategy.
Run - do not walk to your game store to buy this game. All CivII, CTPII, and strategy gamers are going to love this game. It spans the whole freakin world! It has everything! Diplomacy, production, economics, military, etc. How did Paradox ever create such a game?
The manual (127 pages) is beautiful. It doesn't have an index, but someone created one, and it can be downloaded from the forum on Paradox's site. The pages in the manual are glossy pages; rivalling that of an expensive book.
This is a polished game that seethes with history and gameplay. I am going to be playing this for a long time.
More scenarios are being created for it all the time, and can be found at the following site:
http://www.europa-universalis.com/
Here is a game worthy of your attention until CivIII comes along. Even then, you are going to still be playing it.
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Go tell the Spartans, passerby:
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
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23-02-2001 06:28
), and buying the game. 
I just got off the phone with Fed-Ex, since it appears my package hasn't move from it's origination point since last Thursday they are putting a trace on it. I should know sometime today what happened/is happening with the shipment.
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