Review: Field of Glory: Empires (PC)

Review by Matt S.

Of just all the video games that you could set out to make, the 4X must surely be the most complex. The typical 4X might not have the technical fidelity of a AAA-blockbuster, but the sheer amount of data that it needs to crunch, across military, diplomacy, economics and science systems, makes properly balancing the experience a monumental challenge. It's so rare that a developer manages to get everything right, and that's why Field of Glory: Empires impresses me so; it's relatively simple as far as the genre goes, but it does manage to get everything it sets out to achieve right.

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