Europa Universalis III in Production

[Jon Shafer]

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It's been said over at the Paradox forums that EU3 will require PixelShader 2.0, which essentially means an ATi 9500 or nVidia GeForce FX series (or better, of course).

[Sandman]

The new map is fugly. Don't bother with 3D if it's only PS1 graphics.

[Nubclear]

Well, the graphics are not impressive. EU2 is lightyears ahead of it IMO.
But I'll wait and see.

[lord of the mark]

leave aside the graphics for a moment - from what i can gather theyve got some very interesting ideas for the game - changing most of the date certain historical events to situational triggers, in general moving from history on rails to an alt history game with realistic gameplay mechanics. Im not sure how that will work out, but its a very ambitious goal.

[BeBMan]

I really hope it will be good, I don't play many games anymore but this is one I'm waiting for.

[ravagon]

There's going to be a collectors edition ...

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/news.asp?ArticleID=301&Page=News

[Jonny]

Originally posted by ravagon
There's going to be a collectors edition ...

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/news.asp...=301&Page=News

I like EU so much, that I'll probably be suckered into buying that, for better or worse...

*notes Civ3 tin on shelf

[BeBMan]

They launched the official EU III website now:

http://www.europauniversalis3.com/

I think it looks nice now, but the specs (1,9 GHz minimum) are too high for my old machine. I don't play many games, so I dunno if I really want to update my hardware just for this....also they say they leave historic events out and use "situational events" only which is quite a disappointment for me, although the other new features sound cool....

[Nikolai]

Historic events are in, but won't neccessarily trigger at the historical date if the development in the game tells otherwise. They will trigger though. NB! This is how I've understood the comments by the devs.

[Nikolai]

An interesting debate on the historical accuracy(or not) over at the official forum: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...d.php?t=270411

[General Ludd]

The graphics are still much less appealing than the previous games.

[Nikolai]

The pics we got the other day from a newer beta build(the others are mainly from the alpha stage and some very early betas) are pretty good IMO.

[General Ludd]

Oh please, it looks like ass.

It's noisey, pixelated, rigid, and inconsistent with it's high-resolution 2d sprites overlaying the fugly 3d textures.

[Nikolai]

It looks great compared to only some weeks ago, and will become even better as time passes. Besides, it's not the graphics that counts the most.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Nikolai
It looks great compared to only some weeks ago, and will become even better as time passes.

0x2 still equals 0

Besides, it's not the graphics that counts the most.

Exactly - they shouldn't be revamping them for the ZOMG 3D!@#!@# crowd in the first place.