This is what strategy games should be like.
If you can play this game, you have to love it, through all the 1 hour-at-the-time 17 years. What is more fun than messing up history, destroying the 3rd. Reich at its infancy as Czechoslovakia? Destroying it in 1939 as Poland! Seriously, this game is too fun, WAY too fun to play, and it's easily moddable too! Want a birdie in you Polish flag? Insert it, and play along normally! Want that event to pop up on 2 PM instead of 4 AM? Done! Events just make this game. Letting you proceed through history historically of a-historically.
Graphics: I'd say 6.3, but 6 is close enough.
This isn't CiV4, you don't buy this game for its looks. It's not too good looking, but it does the job very well. The icons can bore you easily, but there are dozens of mods out there that have VERY nice icons for your units.
Sound: 9
The music gives the game this score, there are several sound effects, but they'll probably get old quickly.
Value: 10
I bought mine for 11 Dollars, ELEVEN! Cheap for me, but may be more expensive in other places.
Reviewer's Tilt: 1,000,000
This game has taken about 8 times as much of my time as The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. My favorite game, ever.
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