Why I buy this one ?
- Diplomacy allows the player to negotiate anything that is logically negotiable - Form alliances or break them on a whim
- Players must decide whom to trust -- and how to convince others to trust him
- Avatars representing your opponents will express feelings depending on your actions and play style
- An enhanced graphical language will be the negotiating tool between the player and his human and AI opponents -- making the options almost endless for the player

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What our customer's say!

"NOT SUCH A BAD GAME!", I recently purchased this game and it runs very well on my PC. For those who experienced bugs it could just be a matter of updating your PC's drivers and other components. As for a review of the game: if you have played the board game version you cannot beat the face to face experience so this game becomes Plan B if you can't get the board game happening. If you are new to this game, then I would say that you would enjoy this game a great deal but you must be patient and progress through the tutorials and learn how to communicate with the other powers and express your orders correctly. It took me a little while to learn "the ropes". I used to have the Hasbro version of this game and in some ways, I like it better than this one. This version has been targeted more toward teens than adults. The Hasbro version had a more mature look and feel to it with old period photographs and music. This Atari version has character animations that express their content or disgust with each set of moves, which for me, got old pretty quick! Overall, this new version handles diplomatic negotiations with more flexibility. You have far greater control on diplomatic proposals and strategy. The Hasbro version had a power suggest a course of action and you either agreed or disagreed with it. The Atari version lets you highly detail your strategic proposals. Each game version has it's own merits. The game is a lot of fun. Once I start a game I cannot walk away from it until I win! I particularly enjoy this type of game because I enjoy reading and studying history. This game captures the great powers of Europe on the brink of World War One! Here is a link for the Hasbro version if you want to check it out. Diplomacy Also here is a link to an excellent book on the origins of World War One The Guns of August

"DO NOT BUY", Very buggy, very slow, poor graphics, the list goes on...

By far the worst game I have ever purchased. Paradox should be ashamed of selling this garbage.

Thank god I only spent $10 (including shipping).

Buying fast food would have been a better investment!

"Good Buy", It's a good game, hours of fun. There are a couple of bugs in it though, but it for the most part is a fun and challenging game. I paid less than $5 for it, well worth the money.

"I should have listened", This product has too many bugs in it to make it playable. When you're going against AI, and one of the players sends you a treaty, you don't even get to see what they're proposing. You're just supposed to say yes or no. I wouldn't do that in real life, would you?
Combat doesn't move smoothly either. They only time there's no problem is when you move into an empty territory, otherwise it gets choppy. The avatars can get annoying, and you can't get support on it from Paradox's website, just a forum to leave a message in? What about a patch? The other site address on the box doesn't come up with anything.
I should have heeded the other reviews and skipped this game. Learn from my mistake.

"Difficult to use", I play the board game and enjoy it. I have played the old PC game and found it useful but not particularly challenging. When this game came out, I was eager to get it. I have spent two sessions trying to get through all the set-up and directions and find them laborious at best. It promises good features, but I haven't yet waded through all the muck to reach them. Since I've already paid for it and I enjoy Diplomacy, there will probably come a day when I try again to get it up-and-going, but probably not today.

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"Appalling & Absolutely Awful", If I could give this PC game a lower rating, I would. Paradox Interactive has dropped the ball and is selling a catastrophe for $40. This isn't just a bad game, it's bad software outright. The poor user interface renders this PC adaptation simply unuseable - failure at almost every turn. But don't let these reviews fool you, the board game is wonderful (buy it instead or search the internet for a free Diplomacy software).

For a review I mostly agree with, go here:
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/diplomacy-2005/665958p1.html



"Buggy and Slow", Yet another game apparently written without any concept of how do build a stable, reliable application. You'll do better to download just about any free game from the Web. Avoid!

"Buggy, buggy, buggy", It'd be wonderful to have a computer game version of the board game Diplomacy, but this game is unplayably buggy.

Even with the latest patch (v1.1), the tutorial messages have spelling mistakes and odd characters in them. The rotation and scrolling of the game board are choppy and doesn't work properly. The avatar animations are silly and repetitive, but disabling them makes it impossible to do negotiations. At startup, the entire screen goes black for about 60 seconds before coming back up to the entry menu. And there's many, many other bugs.

I own several Paradox Interactive games and often find them to be buggy, but this one is unplayable. I give it two stars instead of one only because I desperately hope the next patch gets this game to the point that it is usable.

It really would be fun to have a computer version of Diplomacy, but this attempt by Paradox is too buggy to play.

"Copy of Avalon Hill's Board Game from 1980",
The premise is set in Europe pre WWI. There are 7 countries, each with 3 "armies" all are equal. From there it's played similar to chess, but since all pieces are of equal strength the only way to conquer is to gang up on a "square". One way to gang up is to get a rival to help you. But what you agree to and what you (or he) does may be two different things. Like chess the rules are simple but the execution is at any level.

The original game of Diplomacy was always intriguing to me and my friends, but the mechanics of submitting orders and resolving things and finding 7 friends at once made it somewhat unplayable.

This electronic version makes the execution of the commands much more straightforward. It allows for many types of pacts / treaties, either for a single move or a longer term general agreement. The AI allows you to play without requiring a group of committed people.

The sound and graphics are definitely basic. It's a real time game with no way to pause for a potty break. There is no review at the end of the game (like civilization) for you to see how things played out or what trechery happened. No stats.

It works, it's AI is good, but not great, but there are no perks normally associated with computer games, just the basic execution of the board game.