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- Platform: Windows Vista / XP
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over. - Media: CD-ROM
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Rulers of Nations, the geo-political PC simulation created by Eversim LLC, is all set to empower players and allow them to emulate world leaders. How would you solve major world issues such as Afghanistan? What about Ahmadinejad’s nuclear ambitions for Iran? And, nearer to home, how would you deal with the credit crunch and restart the stumbling economy? Rulers of Nations is about to give you the chance to find out...
Rulers of Nations creator Eversim has completely rebuilt its powerful, ultra realistic geo-political game engine so that it now includes new cause-and-effect challenges such as: managing refugees after a regional catastrophe, colonising countries, and buying black market weapons. The player is also required to deal with the growing issue of researching and securing sustainable energy sources, whether renewable types, such as wind and solar, or cheaper but more controversial processes such as deep-sea oil drilling.
Having to balance economic, military, social and environmental issues is not easy, and deciding which route to global supremacy you take is a key part of the strategy. Economic and military wars can be decisive, but more subtle routes are often more effective. Spying and espionage may be frowned upon, but forging alliances with your enemy’s enemy will always reap rewards.
In Rulers of Nations players can take part in solo campaigns, or lock horns with up to 16 other online leaders where you choose whether other human or AI leaders are your state’s friends or foe.
Rulers of Nations is played on a detailed 3D world map that shows 192 countries, and 8,000 cities, in a visually stimulating user interface, complete with multiple windows and on-screen video inserts. Each country has current data on 400 key factors (economics, energy, monetary, military etc.) based on current data from 50 international organisations including the United Nations, G20, NATO, NAFTA and OPEC.
To add further realism, 3D renders of the major real world leaders are included so now you can dialogue and look directly into the whites of their eyes. Who will blink first?
Rulers of Nations will hit stores in September on DVD-ROM format and online in digital format. The game will be localised in to English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian.
Rulers of Nations creator Eversim has completely rebuilt its powerful, ultra realistic geo-political game engine so that it now includes new cause-and-effect challenges such as: managing refugees after a regional catastrophe, colonising countries, and buying black market weapons. The player is also required to deal with the growing issue of researching and securing sustainable energy sources, whether renewable types, such as wind and solar, or cheaper but more controversial processes such as deep-sea oil drilling.
Having to balance economic, military, social and environmental issues is not easy, and deciding which route to global supremacy you take is a key part of the strategy. Economic and military wars can be decisive, but more subtle routes are often more effective. Spying and espionage may be frowned upon, but forging alliances with your enemy’s enemy will always reap rewards.
In Rulers of Nations players can take part in solo campaigns, or lock horns with up to 16 other online leaders where you choose whether other human or AI leaders are your state’s friends or foe.
Rulers of Nations is played on a detailed 3D world map that shows 192 countries, and 8,000 cities, in a visually stimulating user interface, complete with multiple windows and on-screen video inserts. Each country has current data on 400 key factors (economics, energy, monetary, military etc.) based on current data from 50 international organisations including the United Nations, G20, NATO, NAFTA and OPEC.
To add further realism, 3D renders of the major real world leaders are included so now you can dialogue and look directly into the whites of their eyes. Who will blink first?
Rulers of Nations will hit stores in September on DVD-ROM format and online in digital format. The game will be localised in to English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Russian.
Product Description
Rulers of Nations, the geo-political PC simulation created by Eversim LLC, is all set to empower players and allow them to emulate world leaders. How would you solve major world issues such as Afghanistan? What about Ahmadinejads nuclear ambitions for Iran? And, nearer to home, how would you deal with the credit crunch and restart the stumbling economy? Rulers of Nations is about to give you the chance to find out...
Rulers of Nations creator Eversim has completely rebuilt its powerful, ultra realistic geo-political game engine so that it now includes new cause-and-effect challenges such as: managing refugees after a regional catastrophe, colonising countries, and buying black market weapons. The player is also required to deal with the growing issue of researching and securing sustainable energy sources, whether renewable types, such as wind and solar, or cheaper but more controversial processes such as deep-sea oil drilling.
Having to balance economic, military, social and environmental issues is not easy, and deciding which route to global supremacy you take is a key part of the strategy. Economic and military wars can be decisive, but more subtle routes are often more effective. Spying and espionage may be frowned upon, but forging alliances with your enemys enemy will always reap rewards.
In Rulers of Nations players can take part in solo campaigns, or lock horns with up to 16 other online leaders where you choose whether other human or AI leaders are your states friends or foe.
Rulers of Nations is played on a detailed 3D world map that shows 192 countries, and 8,000 cities, in a visually stimulating user interface, complete with multiple windows and on-screen video inserts. Each country has current data on 400 key factors (economics, energy, monetary, military etc.) based on current data from 50 international organisations including the United Nations, G20, NATO, NAFTA and
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I was put off buying this game for a long time due to the bad reviews.
One of the recurring issues in the reviews were the crashes.
Well, I finally bought it a few days ago and am happy to find that it is very stable.
I like strategy games with a lot of depth (eg Victoria 1 & 2) and this is exactly the type of game that I love.
The war aspect seems simplified which some people might not like, though for me this is an advantage as I prefer developing my country to fighting.
What makes this game different is that it tries to capture the decisions you would be faced with if you were a ruler.
In other words, you're not a 'god' controlling that country, only the president/prime minister etc.
To give you an example, when I was playing as North Korea and I tried to reduce my spending on the army, they quickly deposed me from power so I lost.
So you have to keep your party/supporters happy as well as the populace, whilst trying to achieve your own goals.
Unfortunately, the engine underlying the game is slightly too simple.
Each time I start a new game, I get frustrated by some flaw in the engine within two to three game years.
Eg I started playing as Zimbabwe for a challenge.
- Its unemployment rate started at a whopping 95%.
- I did everything I could to boost the economy for two years.
- After having increased the GDP by 45%, the unemployment rate had only fallen to 94.36%!
That's a pretty specific example but hopefully it illustrates what I meant by limitations in the game engine.
So while this game has lots of actions that you can do, the designers did not reflect these accurately in the mechanics of the game.
This removes the main advantage that the game had going for it, ie it fails to be an accurate geo-political simulator.
One of the recurring issues in the reviews were the crashes.
Well, I finally bought it a few days ago and am happy to find that it is very stable.
I like strategy games with a lot of depth (eg Victoria 1 & 2) and this is exactly the type of game that I love.
The war aspect seems simplified which some people might not like, though for me this is an advantage as I prefer developing my country to fighting.
What makes this game different is that it tries to capture the decisions you would be faced with if you were a ruler.
In other words, you're not a 'god' controlling that country, only the president/prime minister etc.
To give you an example, when I was playing as North Korea and I tried to reduce my spending on the army, they quickly deposed me from power so I lost.
So you have to keep your party/supporters happy as well as the populace, whilst trying to achieve your own goals.
Unfortunately, the engine underlying the game is slightly too simple.
Each time I start a new game, I get frustrated by some flaw in the engine within two to three game years.
Eg I started playing as Zimbabwe for a challenge.
- Its unemployment rate started at a whopping 95%.
- I did everything I could to boost the economy for two years.
- After having increased the GDP by 45%, the unemployment rate had only fallen to 94.36%!
That's a pretty specific example but hopefully it illustrates what I meant by limitations in the game engine.
So while this game has lots of actions that you can do, the designers did not reflect these accurately in the mechanics of the game.
This removes the main advantage that the game had going for it, ie it fails to be an accurate geo-political simulator.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
At firsrt glance there appears to be little difference between rulers of nations and its previous version geo-politcal simulator, after playing the game for a little while you discover that this is because there are no meaningfull differences between the two.
The graphical interface has been changed a bit
economic data for the various nations updated to show that the economic crisis got worse since GPS was released.
character messages now come in audio - the same voices reading the same messages over and over and over...
The game also still suffers from the major problem of GPS
lack of documentation - there are several hundred different actions you can take and maybe three of these are covered in the manual/tutorial
Your character Getting killed - terrorist random event where you die and the game is over, massively increasing funding to protect your character will reduce this but NOT eliminate it.
Randomly being kicked out of office - trying to bring the UK out from the financial crisis i managed in 12 months to cut the deficet by a third, increase growth, reduce unemployment, and maintain a popularity rating of 100% - then got kicked out of office.
GPS was a game with massive potential that was not realised, GPS2 is the same game with some new graphics and would be worth buying as a low cost exapnsion pack not a full game.
The graphical interface has been changed a bit
economic data for the various nations updated to show that the economic crisis got worse since GPS was released.
character messages now come in audio - the same voices reading the same messages over and over and over...
The game also still suffers from the major problem of GPS
lack of documentation - there are several hundred different actions you can take and maybe three of these are covered in the manual/tutorial
Your character Getting killed - terrorist random event where you die and the game is over, massively increasing funding to protect your character will reduce this but NOT eliminate it.
Randomly being kicked out of office - trying to bring the UK out from the financial crisis i managed in 12 months to cut the deficet by a third, increase growth, reduce unemployment, and maintain a popularity rating of 100% - then got kicked out of office.
GPS was a game with massive potential that was not realised, GPS2 is the same game with some new graphics and would be worth buying as a low cost exapnsion pack not a full game.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
This is a complex and intriguing game to get to grips with. The in depth tutorial was essential to progress my understanding and enjoyment of Rulers of Nations.
I particulary like the scenarios where there are set objectives to achieve within a certain time frame,this really put the pressure on and gave me directional impetus.
It is a facinating and deceptively addictive game once you get into it. As the political head of state you are tasked with running the country, you can choose which one, Mexico, Israel,Russia, Afghanistan etc... each with its own unique set of issues and problems to deal with. As leader you have to make all kinds of decisions which have corresponding consequences for your country and YOU. Making ill advised decisions can send you into a trade war with your neighbours, cause rioting in the streets or get you 'dumped'as leader ( or worse).
lots to discover in the game yet, still playing.
I particulary like the scenarios where there are set objectives to achieve within a certain time frame,this really put the pressure on and gave me directional impetus.
It is a facinating and deceptively addictive game once you get into it. As the political head of state you are tasked with running the country, you can choose which one, Mexico, Israel,Russia, Afghanistan etc... each with its own unique set of issues and problems to deal with. As leader you have to make all kinds of decisions which have corresponding consequences for your country and YOU. Making ill advised decisions can send you into a trade war with your neighbours, cause rioting in the streets or get you 'dumped'as leader ( or worse).
lots to discover in the game yet, still playing.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Excellent
I have only got this game today,but i can already tell it's brilliant.I started of as Holland.After around 3 months i made a big mistake though. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Dezzo
god sent strategy game
wow what a game, i have played strategy war games for ten years, both real time and turn based. but finally i have found rulers of nations 2, i must say this is the most pleasure... Read more
Published 9 months ago by C. T. Philpot
Great Game..BUT!!!!
I purchased Geo- Political ( Commander in Chief) which was one of the best political role playing games I had ever played so it was natural I went for this one. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Just Dave
This concept is really something!
I found out about this game through a Facebook application last week. I've been playing it for the last few days. The point of the game is to try to change today's world. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Sammy Doert
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