Review anarchistica 2/5 · Sep 14, 2021
Obsolete
I loved EU3 a little bit more than is healthy so now, a decade later, i decided to give its predecessor a shot. And it was so rough i honestly just gave up after a few minutes.
The controls are all wrong. Not zooming with the mouse wheel is bad enough, but Space not pausing the game is terrible. Instead …
I loved EU3 a little bit more than is healthy so now, a decade later, i decided to give its predecessor a shot. And it was so rough i honestly just gave up after a few minutes.
The controls are all wrong. Not zooming with the mouse wheel is bad enough, but Space not pausing the game is terrible. Instead you have to use the tiny Pause button somewhere on the top right of your keyboard. It's EU, you constantly want to pause and unpause. Such a bizarre choice.
The game is also extremely limited when it comes to starting nation/time. There are 8 scenarios with 1-8 countries each. There's maybe 30 countries in total. There is no option to just pick any country and any starting date like in EU3.
It does run in Windows 10, but it crashes every time i exit. Overall, you're better off getting a newer version of EU.