{"id":7500,"date":"2012-08-20T10:08:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T14:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=7500"},"modified":"2012-08-20T21:33:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T01:33:31","slug":"europa-universalis-iv-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/europa-universalis-iv-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Europa Universalis IV Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have to admit that I never played any title of the Europa Universalis series but I’m convinced that will probably change with this 4th installment, which Paradox Interactive\u00a0announced<\/a> about a week ago.<\/p>\n

Europa Universalis is publisher Paradox Interactive’s flagship game (where all began for them) and it is based on a\u00a0French\u00a0board game<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0same name\u00a0by\u00a0Philippe Thibault. The idea behind the orignal Europa Universalis game\u00a0was\u00a0to let the player take control of one of seven\u00a0European\u00a0nations, but that evolved in the next installments and it’s now possible to play with up to 300 playable countries all over the world in\u00a0Europa Universalis 3 and “any country in the world” in this new installment.<\/p>\n

Europa Universalis IV<\/a> is, like the previous installments, a grand strategy game played in (pausable) real-time. Grand strategy<\/a>\u00a0because the focus is on a series of wars over a specific period in real history, where you need to co-ordinate and direct all the resources of a nation towards victory or to some political objective.\u00a0Gameplay involves military tactics (usually\u00a0highly abstracted), but also\u00a0political and economic conflict.<\/p>\n

\"Europa<\/a><\/p>\n

Paradox Studio manager\u00a0Johan Andersson (lead\u00a0game programmer\u00a0of the original\u00a0Europa Universalis game) walks us through an interesting gamespot video<\/a> on\u00a0what’s new in EU4. In summary, the major changes in EU4 are UI and graphical improvements, enhanced trade, a technology overhaul and overall performance optimizations. Johan also talks about spies having less impact now and an increased focus on diplomacy aspects. The game will set starting on 1444 till late 18th century in the Napoleon era.<\/p>\n

Europa Universalis IV is scheduled for release on Q3 2013 for the PC and Mac, and on the blog’s community best interest we’ll be following it closely.<\/p>\n

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