SuperPower 2

To play in full-screen and/or change resolution, run the `video_config.exe` on the game's folder.

Just tested out GOG and STEAM server discovery with the help of Mr. Monday. Turns out that SuperPower2 connects to the same matchmaking/discovery server (the server that sends you all of the active games so you can connect to them), so GOG users can play with STEAM users and vice versa. The details; Using a packet sniffer (Wireshark), I was able to manually inspect outgoing and incoming packets. After a little bit of snooping, I found 'gateway.nordic.rankedgaming.com' on an incoming packet. This suggested that Steam and GOG did in fact share a matchmaking server. I gave Mr. Monday a shout with his steam version and he graciously checked his server browser, and we compared against mine. He then set up a game using the Steam version, and I connected on my GOG version successfully. Hope that helps with any doubts you have about buying either version!

Superpower 2 is something of a mixed bag. It does a good job on the economic and military simulation elements overall. The interface doesn't always make it clear why things are happening but you can learn to work around that as you get to know the game. But while Superpower 2 has plenty of depth it doesn't do terribly well as a game. You can do whatever you want, but there's little attempt to stop you achieving it. This can be unsatisfying. I let my game as Afghanistan run unattended for half an hour and when I came back the country was doing better than when I left.

Mind you: I never played this game before. First impressions: Works perfectly fine in Win 7x64. Cons: In settings there's no way to play it on a full screen 1920x1080. Game interface doesn't allow you to change the size of windows, seeing that you have plenty of space and these minuscule windows - it's really annoying. Treaties are messed up: countries can join them even though they weren't eligible to do that in real life (eg. Poland popping into EU in 2001), and joining any treaty seems to have only advantages - there's no duties or expenses or cons to anything, so you want to run though all of them and join everything you may. Map looks awful and is very non-functional (doesn't feel like Hearts of Iron or Europa Universalis at all). Interface is very click-heavy with little done to make it functional for the user. Managing your country is extremely simplified - to the point where sometimes it's just stupid (eg. options for internal laws about "Abortion" are: permitted / not permitted, moving capital city is just 2 clicks and no obvious effects) or almost intentionally made difficult (eg. no hints on what the effects of certain actions might be, the history screen is very... weird and picky in terms of what it wants to display, eg. there is government approval graph, but no unemployment or income graph?! some events and changes are displayed on it, but other are not for no logical reason I could think of). AI also seems to be doing some weird stuff... eg. tons of countries take control over cereals production? Really? Why specifically cereals?! To sum up the nation management side of the game let me give you this as an example: In my first play-through I played as Poland, standard difficulty custom scenario with an objective of raising GDP by 50%. It took me 3 years, 10 months and 27 days. WHAAAT?! I don't know, perhaps this game shines when it comes to wars and battles, but in a peace time - its... not great.