Europa Universalis 3 Review

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6 min readJun 3, 2021

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Not everything is graphic. Actually, it shouldn’t be graphic. I think in my own way sometimes, “ how about a good game without graphics?”he. A firm immediately caught up with me on this, Of course, Paradox. I love these producers. They throw graphics into the background, revealing games with high playability and depth. I especially like Europa Universalis. Game one infected me and it didn’t get off me for a long time. But with the second Europa, I got into the battles and the detail. After that, I wrapped it up in other games of Paradox. But in the intervening time, the continuation of Europa Universalis, which kept me at the computer for hours, did not come. But Paradox does not stand empty, it works. He did it and finally gave us the third game.

As soon as I got my hands on Europa Universalis 3, I installed it right away. After a short and not long installation, I double-clicked the icon on the desktop. I came across a menu that runs on the desktop again, from this menu we can do the work of updating the game. As soon as you install Europa, you will see Patch 1.1. I’d definitely say install it. Because he fixes a lot of critical mistakes and stuff. After installing the patch, I entered the game. Europa Universalis 3 begins with an excellent cinematic accompaniment reminiscent of oil paintings. After this cinematic, the main menu appears. The main menu of the game is quite simple. The music on the menu is also good. As always, there are classic settings such as Single Player, Multiplayer, Options, etc. I entered the option and made the video part 1280 X 1024 and opened the effects as they were. Because of the screenshots before the game came out and now it will be 3D, I wanted to open the graphics thoroughly.

When we enter the Single player, there are 8 different ready-made scenarios. These include A New world (1492), war of the league of Combrai (1508), eight years war (1579), Thirty years war (1618), War of the Spanish success (1701), War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718), Seven Years War (1756) and American war of Independence (1776). As for the ready-made scenario, there are certain races that will be taken in all of them. French, Spanish, American, British, etc…. but we can arrange any date ourselves, except for these ready-made scenarios. Also, after setting the date we want, we can also get any race from the open part of the map.

We’re in your crayfish.

After a short Download, we enter the game immediately. A whole map is in front of us, again a bird’s eye view like the previous games. But now there’s a difference, we can zoom in and out. The reason for this is 3D graphics. The graphics really added color to the game and became beautiful. I kind of liked it. So we get the feeling that Europa Universalis is playing a little more vividly. The graphics are not like in next-generation FPS games or strategy games. But it’s good for the Europa series. Seriously, that’s a very good detail for me. Now our army units are indicated by 3D-shaped Man figures. Our cities are made the same way. When we build a building in any city, a building figure appears on the map. If we try to build a ship in the same way, he’s portrayed as someone who cuts wood with his saw. These are all good details. And the ocean view is 3D now. Apart from these, the graphics don’t really have much use, but let it be. And they’re beautiful like this.

Our fighting force is a thousand again. When we click on our soldiers, there is a menu on the left. From here, we can see how our people are doing. There are details about how their morale is, how many wars they’ve been in, etc. The factors that most affect our soldiers are their commanders, and the second is their morale. The fact is, if you fight a country or something like that, soldiers can experience an Offensive Shock. Losing a war, their commander dying, taking a place, Success, Failure; in short, everything is important for morale in military power. It doesn’t matter if it’s terrestrial or sea. So before the battle, calculate the strength, number, etc.well. Accordingly, enter a place and fight. Otherwise, there is a chance that he will be badly defeated.

The army part was combined in Europa Universalis 1 and 2, but in the third game they became separate units. We can get as many people out of cities as we want, but not at once, but in order. And in previous games, we would gather guys here and there, and then attack. Now it’s just a certain area that doesn’t exist. The army is gathering here. Besieging States and wars are the same. If you’ve played previous games, you’ll memorize this place, so I did.

Politics, religion, monarchy

I thought there was no graphics in Europa Universalis, the detail was important. Again, we have the perfect detail. First, The Papacy and the Holy Roman Empire stand out. Two of them can be considered superpowers because they weigh too much. We can bring our own men into the papacy. We can take clergy from other countries. It’s going to cost us a certain price or something. The papacy in general is easy to translate, you can get support from missionaries and clergy under hand. But the Holy Roman Empire is a little serious. Because they never forgive some mistakes or anything like that. They can attack you directly. But you can handle it with some deals and little footy games. As the score increases and becomes stronger, the Roman Empire will not be left, it will be crushed in front of you. But the support of the two adds features such as plus points, military power, etc.

Management is very important. If you change the management that is satisfied and conducted, you have the opportunity to go to the hill somersault. Incoming support may decrease. Need to pay attention to it. So determine your management style well. I meant papal and religious support. Here are the missionaries that you will send to other countries. You can make countries in other religions out of your own religion through your missionaries. This will come in very handy. Don’t try it once, if you fail, try it in a row. Of course, you turn it to yourself. When sending missionaries to other countries, pay attention to what’s inside you. Treat denominations equally so you get pretty good points. It’ll do you a lot of good.

Actually, there are a lot of details in the game. For example, by helping management or something like that, we can work with people with a special reputation for a certain amount of money. Among these people, there are those who excel in art, politics, science, etc. They provide good coordination between you and your people. But a lot of money. We can build a colony, but it takes a long time to build a colony. But when it is established and we enter the colonies, it will be of great benefit to us. It happened to me, don’t give up because colonization will take a long time.

Artificial intelligence is quite annoying. They really improved it compared to previous games. Raise an army from the border, they can declare war and enter you directly. And they’re sending spies or something. So they’re trying to find out what you’re doing or something. He’s very sensitive to your armies and their movements. Whatever you do, he’ll make a response immediately. But speaking of motion, on Europa, which is real time, we can stop time. So we can think about the tactics and moves we want, look around and do it.

Bach

There’s a lot of detail in the game. But these are not confusing, with simple menus, the player gets used to it immediately. All the rulers who happen to countries have special abilities. This ability part is given to your ruler as long as the game works and according to the direction of the game. I mean, the part that’s most useful to you. It wasn’t like that before, every feature was obvious. Also, if your monarch dies untimely, a commission looks at the country in its place until the new monarch catches up. But the new monarch is growing, and when he takes the throne, everything returns to normal.

The music of the game is also very good. He’s gone to his age and environment. Europa Universalis 3 is quite a great game. I liked it very much, it was worth what I expected personally. If you care about detail and throw technical striking at the back like I do, definitely play the entire series, not Europa Universalis 3.

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