

What you'll need to do is use the Internet to download patches and pick-up information that's missing from the manual.

Moreover, a good many of the functional gameplay questions you'll likely have won't be explained in the documentation. It takes real-time hours to learn to build armies and colonies, develop your economy, and to explore the map sufficiently to locate your foe. The tutorial requires Ireland (Eire) to score a military victory against the Mamelukes of Egypt. This is made even worse by the extreme length of the mission, which you'll be hard pressed to complete in a single session of gaming. While the game's design is well-considered and interesting, another round of quality-checking might have helped fix the numerous programming flaws.įirst, and most annoying, is the inability to save the tutorial scenario. The out-of-the-box version of Europa Universalis is a bit of a disappointment.
