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Europa Universalis 3: Napoleon's Ambition

Rating: 4.5 (723 votes cast)

Platform: PC
File size: 16.85 MB
Categories: Strategy
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
DRM: DRM Free
Price: £17.96 (27 653 Blue Coins)

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System requirements

Europa Universalis III
1.9GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon processor or equivalent with 512MB RAM
(1.0GB RAM is highly recommended)
128MB Video Card with Hardware T&L and support for Pixelshader 2.0 or better
DirectX7 compatible sound card
Windows-compatible mouse; Mouse with scroll wheel highly recommended
At least 1GB of free hard drive space to accommodate game files and saved games. This does not include any space used by the Windows� swap file.
DirectX9.0c
High-speed Modem connection is required for multiplayer games
Windows� 2000 (with Service pack 1 or higher) or Windows� XP (Home/Professional/Media Edition) with Service Pack 2

Features Reviews

FEATURES

Europa Universalis III delves deeply into the areas of exploration, trade, warfare and diplomacy. This already classic PC Strategy title is characterized by immense depth and historical content that charge its challenging gameplay with incredible replayability value. Editor Choice awards given to Europa Universalis III include IGN, GamePro, 1UP and Games for Windows magazine.

The expansion Napoleon's Ambition takes the award winning Europa Universalis III all the way into the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era in.

* Expanded Timeline to 1820

The expanded timeline to 1820, will encompass the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon. New leaders, rulers, advisor wars, countries and national ideas have been added as well as dozens of new units to give more tactical choices.

* Historical Options

For those gamers looking for an even stronger historical experience, this option is the one. In addition to hundreds of new events, players will be able to see their rulers, leaders and advisors appear on the accurate historical dates.

* Improved Interface

A new added map mode for trade displaying all goods will be produced in each respective province, including its value. This means more pages for the ledger including information about colonies and leaders, and several improvements to the interface.

* More Gameplay Options offer more Strategies

Now you can emulate Peter "the Great" and create an all-new capital for your nation. Influence trade in your nation, add centres of trade to bring more wealth into your nation, or remove them to focus trade on a few valuable trading centres. Conquer Europe as Napoleon and dismantle the Holy Roman Empire.

* Enchanced Trading System

An all-new system to auto send merchants will allow players to choose the trading centres they most want to focus on, and the game will take care of the rest. This system also includes a new rule for trade overseas. The only way players will be able to access markets is to use war or diplomacy to allow merchants in. Get there first and reap the profits!

* Additional options

More options have been added to customise your EU3 experience. Players will now have options for "No Inflation", "Free Colonisation", "AI Aggressiveness" and many more

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS

7th Sep

By yellomellojello

This is worth it for the expanded timeline alone, all of the other new features are icing. Automated trading reduces the need to micromanage, and the historical option is great to play around with. Definitely an expansion all EU3 owners need.

6th Aug

By dunno

It's quite old now but still intense, a big improvement for the original game, but you cannot compare it to the later expansions for EU3, namely HTTT & IN.

New timeline & the autosending of merchants are the most enjoyable features of this game.

4th Aug

By A_dane

This is a very nice expansion, which provides some much needed improvements. Especially the "Auto-send" merchants. Moreover, it's needed in order to upgrade the game to the newer expansions that has followed.

(Which makes it even greater.)

31st Jul

By zeodeicasia

This is the least worthwhile of the EU3 expansions. Unless you specifically pick the French Revolution starting date you are unlikely to every see the new revolutionary governments. The historical options are bad for diplomacy and the lack of advisers and generals with historical leaders on is irritating. The bug fixes, improved AI, improved interface, and noticeably increased game speed are welcome, but the only reason to pick this up is to get the excellent later expansions.

28th Jul

By JongWK

This is a worthy expansion for those who have the basic EU3 game, but if you are starting from scratch it might be better to buy EU3 Complete (which has EU3, Napoleon's Ambition and In Nomine) and then Heir to the Throne. Overall, a 4-star expansion.

3rd Jun

By Sommerled

The first thing that I noticed after upgrading to Napoleon's Ambition was the increase in game speed, Johan and his team were certainly on the ball when it comes to optimization. The expansion of the timeline through the Napoleonic period is certainly and added plus, and the new features round out a very solid expansion - recommended to anyone with the base game.

8th Apr

By nachinus

Though not as groundbreaking as In Nomine or the last Heir to the Throne, still is a step forward towards the perfection of EU3. There are some improvements in gameplay and AI which are much welcome, as it's the expanded timeline and the revolution rules so you can recreate the French Revolution. My biggest dissapointment is the poor implementation of the historical rulers/leaders/advisors options. The game is almost unplayable when selecting one of these: only the historical characters will appear, the game won't generate any other, so there's an eternal lack of leaders/advisors. It would be quite simple to create a mix system like in Victoria, when where you recruited a general the game would choose one from the historical pool, and if there was none available, it'd create a random one.

24th Dec 2009

By disjoe

This is a good expansion pack to the EU3, not as good as In Nomine, but still worthy for the money. If you don't enjoy micromanagement this expansion is for you. Auto-sending merchants eliminates a lot of the boring elements of the game, and the expanded timeline means you have more time to conquer the world. All in all a worthy expansion.

12th Dec 2009

By OttomanMaster

This is a wonderful strategy game. I have player other games, but none have stacked up to be as detailed as this one. Not only that, but tons of mods, including a fantasy map mod are out. And I'm sure there is one or two Modern day Scenario mods out.

3rd Dec 2009

By Joelymoley1

Excellent expansion pack to an excellent strategy game. If you already own EU3 this is a must buy. Expands your game by quite a few years, adds new units, scenarios, and better AI. If you had trouble finishing a whole game as a nation, you may want to avoid this buy as it will make the game even longer and sometimes takes me over a month to finish one game.

8th Aug 2009

By rpatrick1014

NA adds some useful features and improvements to the original EU3 like the players will now have options for "No Inflation", "Free Colonisation", "AI Aggressiveness" and many more. It's worth for the interface improvements and the expanded timeline.

21st Jul 2009

By 7thGalaxy

The most useful addition of this expansion pack is definatly the ability to autosend merchants to tradeports, listed in priority. It also takes the game up to the end of the French Wars, and adds the technologies and buildings that are appropiate. A good addition to a game which is already great.

1st Jul 2009

By salaminizer

Like In Nomine (after it), NA adds some useful features and improvements to the original EU3. Althought not as great as IN, it's worth for the interface improvements and the expanded timeline as well.

3rd Jun 2009

By kelric

I have played EU2 and EU3 and found EU3 in its barest form lacking and to some extent frustrating. The amount of times I fall back on cheats is usually a good indicator of how ticked I get at a game.
With EU3 NA, there is a better mix and balance.

I too like the merchant auto-send though micromanaging them is probably more effective There are some areas which I would have like to have seen such as more ability to control one's dynasty like Crusader Knights. If not, then some mechanism to indicate who the heir to the throne was and his/her traits and if they belong to another country.

I am still leery of getting In Nominee - party due to the increased strength of those obnoxious pirates.

Overall, I recommend NA to anyone who has EU3.

29th May 2009

By Will Lucky

Napoleons Ambition adds a lot more to EU3, wile not as much content as IN it certainly adds improvements to the game. The addition of features such as Auto-Send merchants takes some of the annoying micromanangement away.

The extension to the timeline is also a welcome addition allowing you to attempt to recreate and even better Napoleons achievements which are done well. The new high tech level National Ideas which go with the new timeline also all work wonderfully.

And of course gameplay options allow the player more customisation of a few options before a game of what they want involved which was a fine addition.

Overall a great expansion although there perhaps could have been more, IN provided with that.

5th Oct 2008

By GShock

Disappointed but still a good game.
Paradox has done much better imo with Victoria Revolutions...it is true however that NA expansion has bettered the game, more playable, enjoyable, and with a smarter AI. I suggest this game to whoever wants to start his journey into learning how to manage an empire...pushing a small state into a big empire is very challenging.

26th Feb 2008

By dtrotzjr

What more can I say than has already been said, except I love this game! It has amazing depth. It did take me a little while to get into because it has a steeper than normal learning curve, but that is what makes this game so amazing because as you learn the mechanics of the game you feel rewarded as things fall into place as you planned. If I had only one word to describe this game it would be AMAZING!

29th Jan 2008

By yossarian500

If you're like me, when you switched to Europa Universalis 3 from EU2, you had complaints right off the bat. Why no autosend for the merchants anymore? Why doesn't the trade map show icons of the trade goods anymore? As good as EU3 is, little details like those made me seriously consider going back to the previous version.

Well, this expansion (as small as it is, physically) solves all those problems and improves lots of other things also. It makes EU3 the game it always should have been, and finally I feel good about retiring my EU2 disc for good!

17th Jan 2008

By KGrob

Fabulous game. The depth and breadth is enormous. The game should be required playing in high schools and colleges across the nation. Stunning recreation of history.

26th Dec 2007

By skyebeader

I have also played all of the Age of Empires, Rise of the Middle Kingdoms, Empire Earths, the Civs, etc, and I agree that I find this game far superior. I was only a beginning novice to EU3 before I downloaded NA, but this expansion is making the process of getting the whole game under control very pleasant, indeed. My "claw" also loves the auto-merchant function! The only thing that I would recommend is more detailed embedded user assistance. Nothing is worse than fumbling around for a paper manual or a corrupted PDF when you are trying something new or are in the heat of battle. You have a great start with the hovers, but there is a lot more that could be done to match the excellence in the rest of your product. The artwork is really great, but hire those most excellent writers to round out your team - that is even more important!!! Thanks for a great addition to a grand game. I know that I will get any further additions you build.

25th Dec 2007

By stolpt01

Simply one of the best turn based strategy games of all times!! Beware, this game is Highly Addictive!!!!

3rd Dec 2007

By Malteser

In practice Napoleon's Ambition makes the excellent EU3 much more entertaining, and even deepens the immersion through the addition of new historical options. It gives the player enhanced control over trade and the economy, makes waging war much more intuitive, adds new ideas....and much more. Basically a must-have expansion for those who want a deeper experience with EU3.

29th Nov 2007

By gr33kp1mp777

This game is amazing!!!!!

The hyped games like Age of Empires III are utter **** next to paradox games!!!

Great Job!

27th Oct 2007

By Peritus

A very nice addition to an allready great game, wasn't sure if i should buy it because its online but it works very well now (paypal used to be a hassle in europe but thats all fixed now, got to playing in just a few minutes.

Very positive about it!

25th Aug 2007

By EuroSlav

I have to agree aswell, a game as indepth as EUIII is a real joy to play. I like the expansion of all the elements in the game, and added game time for me to musket whip the Muscovite's and dismantle the Holy "German" Empire. Great job Paradox.

24th Aug 2007

By jambojones

This is a superb expansion,i love the added merchant auto send feature which will prevent my hand from receding into a claw.

24th Aug 2007

By Gigau

Nothing much to add... EU3 was already a great game. With this expansion, it gets even better. A must-have for any strategy game-lover

24th Aug 2007

By Spartan

I have to agree with the prior poster. It is a worthy X-pack becaue it improves on the basic gameplay system and adds a host of new options as well as a lot of additionaly content.

22nd Aug 2007

By hellraiser25

Im glad to write the first review, because this is a hell of an expansion. it has changed alot things for the better in eu3, it is simply a must-have for all eu3 lovers out there!

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