You can watch the entirety of the Americas be blue as you enforce the Monroe Doctrine using your sphere of influence. You can watch as the cultural demographics of your country shifts from one to another. You have a variety of map modes you can paint in. Hell, I would say it's probably one of the most satisfying Paradox game to map paint in.
That's not to say that Vic2 doesn't have map painting. Built a factory? That needs to import the resources required to output goods. Going to war? Those soldiers need guns and so does the enemy. Annex a province? Now you have direct access to the taxes of the citizens and factories there but also have to pay the bureaucrats, clergymen, and soldiers that live there. It changes and fluctuates depending not only by what you do but by what the AI (more so other players in multiplayer) do as well. Where as most of her sibling games are more about map painting, Vic2 puts a lot of focus on the economy. Where do I begin? Victoria 2 is probably the most unique of the Paradox map games. With all this said, if you can persevere through the first hundred hours or so, you will see why this is rated so highly by grand strategy game players.ĭrawing from my estimated 5000+ hours in this game since its release in 2010, and from the 600+ hours on Victoria 3, I can say with confidence and authority that this is still the ultimate grand strategy game in 2023.
Though it is not as intense as its predecessor, Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun, the dense on-screen modifiers and information will likely have already scared off half the population anyway.īy the way, if you own the DLC, the Advanced Diplomacy tutorial will be bugged and cannot be completed. The limited tooltips and complexity of mechanics of Victoria II, even from its tutorial, epitomise this. Victoria is also likely the least accessible and beginner-friendly of all the Paradox grand strategy series. Some players might also find the dimensions of the UI/icons and game stability a little prohibiting, especially on newer systems. For instance, the sliders are definitely not to everyone's taste. However, the UI and graphics are a bit dated. The plethora of tools available to the players, together with the wealth of mods and strategies developed over the years, enable endless replay potential. Unlike the warfare and external management focus of many grand strategy games, this has a focus on internal management, allowing the players to guide the economic, political and social changes of any country from 1836 to 1936. However, the game's attempt to simulate the economic, political and social spheres is unrivalled by any other game on the market today. It is highly rated by many grand strategy game players over the years, but remains rather obscured from the wider player demographics. Make no mistake, this is not an underrated game. It was an era of gunboat diplomacy, sphere of influence, balance of power, late-colonialism and of significant industrial, technological and ideological advances. This game best captures the dynamics and landscape of the 19th Century world.
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The Victoria series started and ended with Victoria II.
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