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Europa Universalis II

Europa Universalis II invites you to a global struggle for supremacy from the dark times of Jeanne D'Arc to the flaming wars of Napoleon. As the leader of a country you have to guide domestic and foreign policies. Engage in religious struggles, set up expeditions to claim the New World, lead your country to prosperity and victory. Send your Privateers to roam the seven seas, muster mercenaries to bolster your defences, and send missionaries to convert infidels to your State Religion. Interact with true historical events and persons to determine which path your nation will take in the game. The

Release date
April 15, 2015
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Paradox Development Studio
Publisher
Paradox Interactive
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Europa Universalis II invites you to a global struggle for supremacy from the dark times of Jeanne D'Arc to the flaming wars of Napoleon. As the leader of a country you have to guide domestic and foreign policies. Engage in religious struggles, set up expeditions to claim the New World, lead your country to prosperity and victory. Send your Privateers to roam the seven seas, muster mercenaries to bolster your defences, and send missionaries to convert infidels to your State Religion.

Interact with true historical events and persons to determine which path your nation will take in the game. The new game includes an elaborate and expanded system for diplomacy, trade, military might and development. It also includes new graphics, music, sound, manual and a new tutorial system to lower the learning curve. The possibility to demand or offer any combination of provinces, gold and diplomatic agreements as a result of peace. Europa Universalis II expands history's greatest cause of war "Religion", introducing Hinduism, Confucianism and Buddhism.

Cultural groups based on linguistic differences between peoples have also been introduced to portrait the difficulty with which one controls the subjects of another culture during different time periods.A brand new event engine that produces historical, random and special events. The event engine is designed to let the player create his own events making it very fun to build scenarios. Many of the events have multiple choices.…

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★ 8.2/10GOG · 163 ratings
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Most helpful8

★ 5 / 5
Some sequels are happy to simply build and improve upon their predecessors. Others insist on changing things up with every iteration. Paradox did a bit…
★ 5 / 5
A number of people will tell Europa Universalis II isn't as good a game as its sequels, and they are probably right. Numbers and events…
★ 5 / 5
After playing a few games with leading nations of the time, enjoying the history unfolding and making my own changes along the way, I had…
★ 4 / 5
Want to begin to dip your toe in the deep warm waters of Classical music? Forget the many audio CDs out there, and just buy…
★ 4 / 5
See the full, detailed, review here: When I first found the EU games, I fell in love with them. They were strategic, they were historical,…
★ 4 / 5
The music is incredible, after you install it it select manage installation, show folder and you can go into the the music directory and select…
★ 3 / 5
EU2 was a fine game. But in 2009 it was released the final tuning of this game from the team who made the popular AGCEEP…

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★ 1 / 5
I have no idea how I did it, but when I got to the point where the Tutorial wanted me to make a Transport Ship,…
★ 1 / 5
I have been a long-time fan of Paradox Interactive and the historical grand strategy genre. However, the company's biased, disrespectful, and arguably racist attitude towards…
★ 5 / 5
Been playing this for decades now. An awesome game, let's you take over any country in the world in 1419 and control them for 300…
★ 4 / 5
I bought this version solely for the fantasy scenario which I remembered liking long ago. Frankly, its just OK. Not a lot of action other…

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