

Emphasising economics and society is exactly how a Victoria game should be – and that is precisely what Game Director Martin Anward and co. It’s a meme no longer: Victoria 3 is coming, and Paradox is doing it right. The horror of World War One was not simply the death and destruction, but that that slaughter had been created by the self-same advances of an age where everything, it seemed, had combined to make life faster, safer, and better.įast forward to now. All the progress of the past hundred years – all the science, industry and technology of the age – united to create a war where human life was just one more commodity fed into the machine. When Europe went to war in 1914, they expected Napoleon.
