Hi All,

Just want to say I got my pre-ordered Rome game today that I ordered from Paradox and I have played it all morning so far and I can quite honestly say if you enjoy hearts of iron, crusader kings or EU3 this game is an absolute must.

The game is absolutley fantastic, the depth of the game is what I always wanted in RTW. Of course both games are different and EB has much greater depth than RTW vanilla this game by paradox provides a much different experience from EB - although not graphically or action orientated this game by paradox gives you intrigue, diplomacy, espionage plus the usual conquering.

I am currently playing as Rome from 278 BC I already have had a civil war which I won and I have created two vassal states.

I give it a 9/10. Well worth the cost and not any noticeable bugs since I have started.

Cheers

Denbo

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Sounds interesting - It seems that I could enjoy this game I will try it, thanks for this recommendation.

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Well, I got it. And I'm quite disappointed to sy the truth. Ping-pong battle and too many minor skirmishes. Lack of supply considerations and reinforcement system also needs work. Plus the generic units. Only 5 units or 6 and they are all the same for all countries. Darn, was I disappointed?

HOI2 imo is much, much, much better.

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Paradox Games usually get better after modding. I like how they support the modding community.

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After trying out the demo, I´m waiting to buy EU:Rome until I´m convniced I will actually enjoy it. In the demo I keept having to fight Carthaginian attacks, only that even when I won they lost about 23 men out of 1000, and I lost about 3 men. Ridiculous. I do enjoy the prospect of finally being able to play as Massilia though, but the huge amount of "rebel" regions in the western part of the map kinda puts me off. If I understand right the entire Brittish Isles are "rebel" as well. Plus the map doesn´t expand far enough to the east to my liking. Plus (and yeah, this goes for the entire EU series) I really like being able to influence a battle once it has started.

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Paradox games can easily be summed up: good ideas, poor programmers.

I have played their games from EU1 to EU3 and everything in between and I cannot play any more. EU1, released in 2000, was perfect. You can tell they spent a lot of time and energy getting it right. It had no major bugs. Every subsequent title has been of progressively lower quality. They had the engine, so all they did was slap together some new bits and pieces and threw it out the door. By the time Victoria came out in 2003, they were not even completing their games before they were released--and, indeed, Victoria still has not been completed.

They tried to use the system on WWII games and they're a joke. Grand strategy and a ten year time-frame don't mix.

Skip ahead to when the ditched the old engine last year in favor of a "3D" engine that was something out of 1997. They didn't bother to actually see if it worked right before they released EU3, which is an unmitigated piece of trash. Ugly, ungainly, poor mechanics, featureless.

They release a game in a barely-stable state and then complete it with periodical patches. EU2, admittedly the only Pox game I still occasionally play, wasn't "finished" until patch 1.07, two years after it was released.

If you ask for help on their tech support forums, the gist standard response is "shut up, you should be grateful they make games for you".

But they see no reason to reform their methods because they have a legion of "fanbois" who would buy a DVD box full of feces if it had a Paradox label on it and would hail it as the greatest game they ever played. I suppose all game companies that that cadre, but most don't take their only feedback from them.

I see not reason to think that they have reformed themselves in the last year and EB: Rome will be any different. I cannot endorse their poor standards and their poor service by giving them money.

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