If the word "history" holds any meaning to you, go buy this game.

User Rating: 9.3 | Europa Universalis III PC
You will literally lose days of your life playing this game. The world itself, not a loose Hollywood version like Medieval II, is here for you to immerse yourself deep within it. And graphics, schmaphics. The game isn't all that painful on the eyes, and you will be too busy trying to maintain merchant presence in trade centers, building a fleet to send armies across the Atlantic, plotting to invade Denmark, and building a network of Protestant nations to really stop and smell the roses. If you want the PC game addiction without the World of Warcraft flavour, look no further. Or actually, look harder; I had to look in five or six stores before I found this gem. Totally worth the gas.