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For the Glory - A Europa Universalis Game

Rating: 4.3 (131 votes cast)

Platform: PC
File size: 140.43 MB
Categories: Strategy, Grand Strategy
Publisher: Paradox Interactive
DRM: Other DRM
Version: 1.1
Price: £14.94 (22 895 Blue Coins)

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System requirements

Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Pentium II 266 MHz

256MB RAM

1GB free hard drive space

2MB Video Card DirectX Compatible

DirectX compatible soundcard

DirectX 8.0 or highter

Mouse & keyboard

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Take up the reins of your country, guide domestic and foreign policy, navigate thousands of historical events, engage in various struggles and lead your country to prosperity – all in the name of glory!

For the Glory offers full historical immersion, with a completely new in-depth experience with over 10000 historically accurate events. Take charge of the mighty Habsburg Empire, the aggressive Swedish
state, or the seafaring Portuguese. Build up your empire through trade, diplomacy, colonialism and war.

Interact with real historical events and persons to determine what path your nation will take. Nothing is written in stone, and while a wise leader may choose to follow the path of history, you may also take advantage of opportunities for change.

Features:

You can play as over 180 countries, on a map covering the entire world
Era spanning 1419-1819
Experience unparalleled historical immersion with over 10000 historical events
Unparalleled mod-ability: unlimited timeframe and up to 1000 countries
Improved and modernised interface
Adapt your playing style to the personality of your nation’s various historical monarchs
Multi-player up to 32 Players!

For The Glory improvements and additions over Europa Universalis II:
· Simplified and improved user interface, including in-game alerts informing the player of key decisions which need to be made, and the ability to now move troops from the political map mode
· New graphical content including tailored sprites for individual nations and cultures
· Technical improvements including being able to now change graphical resolution, and the ability to switch between mods without exiting and restarting the game
· All original scenarios improved and rebalanced
· Improved AI
· Vastly improved modability over Europa Universalis II
· Gameplay improvements including;
- New core types of warfare (reclaiming territory, religious wars, etc)
- New ‘privateer’ leader type
- Reworked and improved spread of Protestantism
- Reworked rules for calculating supplies and attrition

Two mods are included in For The Glory:
· Age of Timur – set during the 13 th century and created specifically for FtG
· Alternative Grand Campaign / Event Exchange Project or AGCEEP for short – the most popular of the Europa Universalis II mods with features including 10,000 events and countless historical monarchs and leaders

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS

30th Jul

By jensoesterholt

I think this is, without doubt, the best step Paradox could take. Implementing the fan made AGCEEP patch along with the Age of Timur (1400), combined with greater game stability and a nice clean up of spelling errors etc. I for one hate EU3, so I was thrilled when they gave me this new opportunity to support this great game!

22nd Jul

By idrisrock

Don�t be put off this fine , enjoyable and highly informative game by some of the other reviews here. In all fairness some do have valid points. Firstly $20 is a lot of money to buy a veteran game I.e.e. EU2 released. with the AGCEEEP MODmy first experience of EUwas the EU3re lease the game is fantastic and I was hooked. Having never tried the original EU2 interface that is used in for the Glory I found it to be much less enjoyable to use. Sadly the EU3 3 interface and map is so much better and had theAGCEEEP mod been combined with eu3 it would have been a better game been but I understand the reasons for this, this was because EU2� was so easy to mod that the brilliant mod agceep came to be forgetting the interface the AGCEEPmod makes this a highly enjoyable game to play where you make decisions based on real world events, engrossing informative and challenging. Buy it and see.

18th Jul

By Bringer of war

There is essentially no game play improvement whatsoever over EU2. Only mouse (map) zooming, helpful tabs and a couple different mapmodes.

Not worth buying if your already an owner of the original.

28th Jun

By Kel

This game packs the quintessential experience of Europa Universalis II. Of particular interest is the beautifully crafted Alternative Grand Campaign. Of course, For the Glory does not offer the more recent refinements and options of Europa Universalis III. Yet, as it is, we have a rock-solid historical game.

26th Jun

By PrinzWilhelm

I bought it and I think it was still worth the money. It revived EU2 (which is an awesome game itself) and it has a wonderful team of developers who listen carefully to every complaint and critization. They are definitely worth the money.

5th May

By Aikanaro77

Good game, however it is NOT worth $20. Wait for it to go on sale and then it might be worth it. Like all paradox games you need to be a Ph.D. in computer science to begin to tackle multiplayer. Buggs out lots of crash to desktops. Wait for feedback on 1.2 before buying.

Substantively, it is a nice game. Loads of events, historically it flows much better. Nice remake, buggy as all get out, and a bit expensive.

22nd Apr

By nurgles_herald

Meh. Having played modded EU2 for years, I found FtG to be underwhelming, essentially a $20 sprite pack for one of the most beloved games of my childhood. The developer's diaries looked quite promising but, in the end, this title doesn't offer anything you can't download for free and slap on a current install of EU2 (and, perhaps most importantly, FtG has a lackluster map, a problem resolved in EU2 by many user-made modifications). I'm not unhappy that I purchased it, but I wouldn't recommend it to others until Paradox releases a new patch justifying this game's existence.

19th Apr

By Nayas

This is the best *historical* grand strategy I have every played.
With the included AGCEEP mod the replayablity options a huge. Every new country I have played so far is a diffrent experiance.
The game is so much better when EU3 when it comes to *historical* grand strategy.
With patch that is now included the game never crash during game play. The game is extreamly fast if you use the fastes speed (that I prefer to use during peace time).
The interfaces is easy to understand and concering trade you can choice to micro-manage or leave it to the AI. The only thing I lack is that you would have the same choice conceringe colonisation (that the AI could take care of that).
The diplomaty options are good including the option of vassals to have vassals. The fighting includes the element of tec advance, 6 diffrent unit types, leader skill and prefrence of you nation (offencive or deffencive etc). The ecomomic side inlude the choice of printing money and get inflation and the "usual" options to invest in army/navy/buildling/colonization. What realy sets the game a part is how the well the game engine fits with modding multiple historial choices (and events). And how mucha and well that is done in the AGCEEP mod.

7th Apr

By grafter34

I feel this game to be better than EU3 as this game offers something it doesn't, raw history. The events shape the game, but only as much as you let them. Unlike in EU3 where the end game map is vastly different in FTG it only turns out like that if you want it to.
I love this game and it is one of my faveourite games i own now. It has the epic scope that eu3 provides but gives it a structure which i feel eu3 lacks.
The game is also a huge improvement over EU2, this game flows perfectly and has a level of moddability which is simply amazing

4th Apr

By Joriko

For the Glory is really fun. I like the older 2d engine compared to the Clausewitz one as it can run on any computer. The AGCEEP Mod is what gives this one the edge. Eu 3 is probably more streamlined, but the event in FtG add flavor and personality to the game. I will be using this on my laptop when my desktop pc isn't available.

12th Dec 2009

By herzkine

For the Glory perfectly accomplishes to give EU II new life. With AGCEEP included is is the best game in the sector historical grand strategy, because with EU III going a more alternate history way this game is an experience of its own. You can basically relieve history and informing about events that happen ingame even improves your history knowledge again and again. Sometimes especially when you have played EU III the more deterministic way may seem a bit odd, but i guess thats the price you have to pay for being so close to actual history.

The interface additons to the EU II are great, i only preferred the old soundtrack with historical songs of EU II to the composed ones in here. But they are good, too.

One problem that still remains is that the game gives you crashes from time to time, but it isnt too bad considering you can continue at your last autosave. Also the development team is working on it and seems to be determined to iron out those things.

4th Dec 2009

By MrPopov

I rated For the Glory 4 stars. The historical flavor and events when running the included AGCEEP mod are outstanding. The interface improvements, notifications, and AI are moderately improved from Europa Universalis II. Unfortunately the asking price is, in my opinion, a bit high considering the age of the engine and gameplay. I found Europa Universalis III gameplay more engaging. I also prefer the dynamic mission and core expanding to lend for a more unique game experience every time.

Overall for fans of the original EUII, this is a must have.

19th Nov 2009

By Inquirer

I bought Europa Universalis III a year or two back and I find that this game is just a poorer, watered-down version of EU3, instead of an improvement. It is worth buying EU3 even though it is more expensive. Its graphics are much livelier, the panels are more informative and the controls are better. The battle scenes badly need improvement in both games. Two men continuously jabbing each other is hardly a respectable graphic for a modern computer game. The much older game of Imperialism2 had a very interesting combat mode, with troops of different strengths and movement capabilities fighting each other like pieces on a chessboard, allowing you to use your skills effectively.
The historical background behind EU3 and this game is highly informative and commendable.

16th Nov 2009

By kniini

Definitely worth it's prize, and you also get a very cool new avatar on the forums! :D

15th Nov 2009

By ladlas

This is what EU II should have been. For The Glory extends and improves the EU II engine, fixing old bugs and adding new features. It is a wonderful effort.

Unfortunately, at least for me, the EU II engine feels dated compared to the Clausewitz engine of EU III. If only the effort could have gone into EU III instead...

11th Nov 2009

By tkmmelin

I am really satisfied for this product. Even i liked EU3 alots, still it miss something that EU2 had and these new mods really gives new life for EU2.
It fixed some things i didnt liked at orginal EU2, and 1399 mod is nice mod too. Anyway "For the Glory" is still modfied EU2 so graphics are 2d.
Anyway i think its definately worth of its prize.

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