You can of course play as other powers, but the only effect of this is either a copy of the Roman political system, sometimes with the titles changed, sometimes not, or a bare bones and totally uninspired monarchical structure. It is historically inaccurate to the extreme.Īnd then the final problem: You are clearly meant to play this game as Rome, a disappointingly limiting restriction after the other Paradox grand strats. It is true that Rome`s greatest enemy was itself and its legions in the end. But honestly I doubt it.Īnother issue is the challenge of disloyal commanders. It is possible that you could be lucky and get a great alternative simulation of the Punic Wars out of this game. It will in fact almost certainly not behave as an ominous, budding imperial force for you to rally your defense against. On the reverse side of course, if you play as any other power than Rome the simulated Rome you face will not put up a good fight at all and will make few, if any, realistic moves. If you want anything to happen you`re gonna have to do it yourself. When you consider that I have once seen Denmark conquer China in one of my EU games, the lack of history generation in EU Rome is pathetic. It is an imperial strategy game where the warfare is the least interesting bit of the game, and this is the fault of the AI more than anything. And it really doesn`t get much better as the game goes along.
No matter what you do it just stands there and all you have to do is amass a force powerful enough to beat it and you have won the war. And it has a rather large army of 19000 standing in its home province of Epirus that NEVER MOVES. As the game kicks off Rome is at war with Magna Graeca and Epirus, Epirus being the main threat of the two. The best example I can give how just how comatose the AI is you can find right as you start the game. They apparently don`t colonize at all and seemingly endless wars between powerful nations result in nothing. Some smaller states are guaranteed to be gobbled up by more powerful neighbors, but that`s it. It is so passive that if you do nothing the map is very likely to look almost the same after 400 years. The first huge failure of EU Rome is the AI. The game also looks good for the genre, as most Paradox games tend to do, and the music is absolutely perfect. At least it`s there though, as are many other aspects of Roman culture such as religion, trade etc. The game also does its best to represent Senate politics, although the individual politicians are not terribly interesting. To the north the Gauls and other barbarians, to the east a divided but potentially powerful Greece and to the south the Roman nemesis, Carthage. It gives one of the better representations of this that I have seen in a computer game, and faithfully simulates each front the Romans had to hold, including the home front where its increasingly arrogant generals would assert themselves. If you want to play as Rome this means you will play during the period when Rome grew from a small European power on the Italian peninsula to an empire.
Allow me to explain:ĮU Rome is a grand strategy game set in the 5th century BC. This game manages to both hit a few highs and some real lows, so clearly all the other user reviews on Metacritic are wrong.
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