Some bad things in this game can be excused - after all, it's Jujubee's first game. However, even though I desperately wanted to, I simply couldn't like this game. Right from the start, you get surrounded by mediocre music and aweful, tasteless art. While music can be disabled, and art doesn't really matter in such games, it instantly makes the game feel cheap - not what I expect from a grand strategy game. UI is terrible. I can appreciate the simplicity, but in this case it's so basic it hurts the players. You have to scroll through a long list each time you want to see your relations with some country. Scroll to see your GDP. Scroll to see how much military units you have. Scroll to get to basically any important information you might need. Sometimes you can't access this information at all. AI is bad. Sometimes it makes no sense but it's fun (for example, Brazil starting a war with Russia), but usually it's ridiculous: China having a very high Warmonger level and proposing a UN resolution to allow anyone to start wars with high Warmonger countries, and then geting nuked by Russia and India. But the worst thing is: the game fails to entertain the player, it's not interesting. No matter what country you chose, most of the time you simply select the laws or programs and wait until they get implemented. Sometimes events happen, but most of them don't even give the player a choice (or the options are so biased that essentially players still have no choice). Most global events chains are very basic and always unfold the same way. Russia and US will always try to claim the North Pole, and will always get interrupted by Denmark. Turkey will always choose pro-European approach. I've played 5 games and every time I got the same event chains. Don't expect Europa Universalis levels of quality from it. If you're looking for a casual strategy game, play something else (something that doesn't pretend to be a grand strategy); if you want something complex - play EUIV.
