The outliner continues to offer handy quick access to your units, demesne, and council members, and the ledger presents randomly thrown together bits of information they couldnвЂ™t find a better place for.

The user interface continues to progresses towards perfection, placing important messages as alerts and filing less pressing information appropriately: every in-game event is displayed in the bottom window, stuff in your realm is placed into high and low priority messages along the right, and things that need your action come in at the top. While a pretty map makes for good screenshots, the real meat of a strategy game lies in the interface. That said, I did experience some minor map bugs with my NVIDIA 560 Ti (borders flashing each time a day passed), but when I rolled back to the latest non-beta drivers, the problem was solved. I also really like the use of stained glass icons, putting you into the setting of the game. Your councilors have distinctive character models if you zoom in far enough, and unit sprites carry colors of their lord (identifiable if you are nerdy enough and have the coats of arms memorized) along with exact counts of the soldiers involved (you can also click on the soldier shield to find which province they hail from). Mountainous regions look imposing and forests are lush, striking a balance between realism and illustration. The map, while not as detailed as the one featured in Sengoku, it is still an improvement over Europa Universalis III, with better textures and terrain. Is this marriage built to last?Д¬rusader Kings II continues the refined graphics exhibited in previous Paradox products Victoria II and Sengoku. Crusader Kings II takes the grand strategy design used in several Paradox Interactive products and applies a layer of role-playing, where you control specific characters within Europe and attempt to survive the harsh conditions and testy vassals. Rather than countries uniting on a national level, nobles tried to expand their personal dynasty as dukes fought dukes, kings fought kings, and counts fought over chocolate breakfast cereal. This period was not known for great technological advances (the Internet, for example, was not invented until Amerigo Vespucci found TCP/IP buried deep within the jungles of Brazil), but it was a time of constant small-scale conflict between the family dynasties of Europe. The Middle Ages was a time of transition between the glorious Roman Empire and Disco Fever. What say you? This role-playing grand strategy game is full-featured and highly interactive: 8/8 The Not So Good: Not enough plots, only a couple religious-based options The Good: Detailed character attributes and relationships, military size and income tied with vassal relations, varied tasks for council members, lots of semi-random events, an assortment of provincial improvements, competent AI takes advantage of vulnerable neighbors, laws that determine succession and levy and tax levels for vassals, decent tutorials, multiplayer, easy to modify Crusader Kings II, developed and published by Paradox Interactive.

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