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Victoria 3 Grand Edition for PC is a grand strategy game – an open-ended historical sandbox, the long awaited and much memed sequel to Victoria II, which was released in 2010. The game covers the period between 1836 and 1936, and allows players to control or explore any of one hundred countries (see below for more).
About the Game
The real life time period introduced massive innovation to the world: steam ships, the telegraph, total industrial revolution as far as production and farming go...
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24 October 2022
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Grand Edition includes
- Victoria 3
- Expansion pass
About the Game
The real life time period introduced massive innovation to the world: steam ships, the telegraph, total industrial revolution as far as production and farming goes. Everyone, in those days, were living in exciting times, whether they knew it or not.
The time period also massively influenced our current lives, so it is interesting to explore the what ifs, as you change certain historical details and see how history might have played out.
There is a strong focus on your population and their demographics with a need to appease population groups known as pops, meaning large sections of people with shared interests.
Pops have varying ideologies, ideals, and interests that must be considered if they are not going to rebel against your control.
They can also develop unique tastes that must be catered for, no matter how ridiculous you find them: if not, then you get radicals fomenting dissent.
The Nitty Gritty
Diplomatic Plays is a new name for an old system: it is a revamped Victoria II’s crisis system. A country can make a list of demands to another, which then counters with their own demands in exchange. This immediately starts a timer. If this runs out with no diplomatic solution arrived upon, war may begin.
Some players spend their time attracting allies and deploying troops to strategic placements ready for the timer to run out and waiting for the fight to begin. However, the game developers want you to try and reach a diplomatic solution, believing that war is the failure of diplomacy.
To this end, anything achieved by war can be achieved by diplomacy and will cost fewer of your population their lives. You can use pacts, threats and bluffs to get your own way, which can make diplomacy just as engaging as combat.
There are beautiful graphics throughout the game, even in the menus where you spend a great deal of your time, setting your politics and diplomacy to your preferred levels, alongside a great, stirring soundtrack, and sound effects that are realistic and help you immerse yourself in the game.
The game is very nuanced, with multiple knock-on effects, making it fun to try. The enormous attention to detail means that top tier players will become absorbed in the minutiae of decision-making as they try to work out the effects of each strategy before they enact it.
What Country Can You Rule?
The game’s intensely detailed maps allow players to control any of one hundred countries: as long as they existed during the time period of the game. Amongst others you can play in or around:
Victoria 3 Grand Edition for PC is available for purchase on Instant Gaming for a fraction of its retail price. You will receive an official key and be able to play the game in seconds. Play smart. Pay less.
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Good game , i enjoy it, but it's a bit repetitive for me now, played too much, so trying a lot of new mods for it!
2024-09-01T17:20:08-0400
Honestly the best game i played in a while moslty due to my very historical nerd essay about this but most of all its a really easy game once you got the hang of is systems and how infamy works is not an 10/10 but worthy of a 9.5/10.
- very intresting economic focused game
- really good music
- very informative
- very hard
- easy to get overun
- Sometimes is bullshit.
2023-10-19T20:26:44-0400
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