From the review:"After some patching and a couple of expansions, Victoria 2 is rounding into shape. It is still deep with a killer learning curve, but it is starting to feel like a fun game rather than a buggy spreadsheet."
Heart of Darkness is the second expansion for Victoria II by Paradox Interactive. To give a bit of background information on the base game, Victoria II is a grand-strategy game that allows you to play as any nation in the world for a hundred years starting in 1836 and ending in 1936; military expansion is arguably a minor point of the game as it focuses more on industrialism and the ideas of liberty and nationalism that spread across the world during the time. The main focus of this expansion is colonialism, and it sees a complete overhaul of the colonial system used in the game.
newbreview.com delivers their verdict on the latest downloadable expansion for Victoria II, the African themed Heart of Darkness.
DT:To call Victoria II dense would be a gross understatement. It's a pound cake, with each ingredient -- the tangled politics, vast wars, and simulated economies -- adding greater depth and increasingly complex, interweaving systems. Even for those who consider themselves to be an experienced Europa Universalis player, as I do, it can be a daunting grand strategy title.
