If you read the revies around much of the complains are not longer/were never valid. Sure, Paradox did this badly, but Diplomacy as a game is so good it evens out. Granted, the AI is BAD, but Diplomacy is not meant to be played with a computer, and you can't teach a computer to think as a human anyway, so MP is the only way to use this game. And MP is worth it. It might be claimed around here that there is no good way to negotate even in MP, but this is old info. The game supports private chat, and that is the way you will negotate so that the negotation system is hard understood isn't very relevant. Understanding what is going on is not hard with a little fix, called "imidiate resolve", which means that you get the map with all the moves to look around at, rather than the comfusing show one by one way that you have otherwise, and this function has always been there. Many of the other reviers don't seem to have found this out, which isn't very strongly done by them as the first thing out should try to do when you start playing is getting rid of the annoying grunts, which this function does, unless you of some reason enjoy them, and few seem to do.
So, if you look upon the things that are bad according to Gamespot: Bizarre and confusing diplomacy system. Matters little, you chat in MP
convoluted and overly worded tutorial; If you have played Diplomacy before you can learn enough of this variant by playing a short SP game just to get used to the game. If you have not played Diplomacy before you can google on the rules and read them as they are in the board game. In any case you don't have to care about the tutorial very much in my opinion.
the ai sucks and won't be mistaken for a human anytime soon; You will play with humans.
grunting...lots and lots of grunting.. Easily taken care of
So all in all, with the prize you find Diplomacy for in ebay (around 5$) it is well worth a try, unless you didn't like Diplomacy to begin with (that is, the board game)
To put it mildly, this game will push your patience to the limits as you struggle to come to terms with the poor gameplay features and dismal graphic effects, yet to be honest, if you dont hold back you might just end u... Read Full Review
Load times are ridiculous, gameplay is awful and the only aspect of the game that is worth 'listening' to is the music, the rest is abysmal. What promised to be another turn based game with promise really came out ful... Read Full Review
