If the electorate votes for a pacifist party, you can't just ignore their will and go nuts on a military buildup, as your spending will be capped. In Revolutions, elected governments place certain restrictions on your conduct. In the original game, elections came and went without having much of an impact on how you were playing.
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Free markets mean that you lose input when it comes to ordering up buildings, which can be a real issue at times, particularly if you want to go to war while the money-men are focusing solely on luxury items and infrastructure like railroads.Įlections have been altered, too. At the same time, however, less control really means less control. This greatly eases the crushing levels of micromanagement in the original game and sets up more realistic economics where capitalists take charge of developments and build the factories that they want, when they want. Instead of controlling every dime in every province, you now take a hands-off approach and embrace a free market. Money is now a more big-picture resource. A mostly new economic system means that you can no longer take advantage of economic issues that could see middling states like Poland and Spain accumulate massive sums of cash and become globe-bestriding behemoths. A lot of the exploits from the original Victoria have been tightened up or eliminated. Gameplay has been both enhanced and extended. So if you own both games, you can now play geopolitical guru for more than a century and span virtually the entire modern age. You'll also now be able to port your Revolutions saves into the game's WWII-era big brother, Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday, where you can continue the struggle for world dominance all the way into the Cold War. The big change to the focus of the game involves stretching the open-ended grand campaign from the original terminus of 1920 to the end of 1935 (a move that comes complete with new units, historical events, and inventions). Game mechanics address virtually all of the social and political turmoil that took place during the 19th century, including liberalism and industrialization, as well as the rise of democracy and the establishment of the first truly globe-spanning empires. As usual with developer Paradox Interactive, this is a game of grand strategy, where you take over pretty much any nation and try to guide it to prosperity or flat-out world domination. The massive scope seen in Victoria remains the same, of course. Same look, same complexity, but there are more than a few changes under the hood. The only drawback is that this $10 expansion probably should have been offered as a free patch. While it doesn't change or enhance enough of the core game to attract players turned off by the original's extreme attention to detail, convoluted interface, and design flaws, it contains so many subtle tweaks and improvements that it is a must-buy for fans. As a cheap online-purchase-only expansion to 2003's Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun, Revolutions does its job reasonably well.
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