Un bon jeu sur la première guerre mondiale de type "grand strategy", aux multiples paramètres à découvrir. Côté réalisation, c'est un peu daté, mais tient la route. Les musiques sont vraiment à revoir par contre... Côté gameplay, c'est solide mais parfois obscur, il faut tenter des choses pour comprendre certains aspects. Le plaisir de la découverte :)

Plutôt réservé aux fans du genre cependant.

Vous pouvez découvrir le jeu plus en profondeur dans cette vidéo (une prochaine suivra pour montrer plus de gameplay) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ovAMuGoig

Au début ça a l'air super! Mais ensuite tu es perdu, l'IA est pas top, la diplomacie est infiniment plus nul que celle de EU4, le jeu est complexe pour pas grand chose.
Le problème c'est qu'il y a la complexité de EU4 (ce qui est bien même si là c'est très peu clair et il n'y a pas de wiki précis si ce n'est le GDD du jeu) mais avec le système de tour par tour des Total War, ce qui je trouve ne va pas du tout ensemble.
Mais pour moi le plus gros point noir c'est que ce jeu me donne l'impression qu'il n'est pas fini du tout: launcher moche et buggé, traduction partielle et mal faite (même si l'anglais n'est pas un problème), des crash, ect... Et même l'ancien Making History est comme ça (en 2007 on sait quand même terminer un jeu convenablement).
La bande son est réduite et c'est toujours les mêmes musiques, et à force ça saoul.

C'est dommage parce que malgré tous ces défauts j'ai insisté, je voulais vraiment jouer au jeu parce qu'il y en a pas vraiment d'autre comme ça sur cette période de l'histoire... Mais après un N ième crash j'en pouvais plus.

Voila le jeu est bien en soit mais très mal développé et l'idée mal exploité... Dommage
PS: et payer 30€ pour avoir ça... c'est pas cool :'(

Making History II: The Great War is a grand strategy game set around the time of World War I (there are two starting scenarios, one starting in 1912 and another starting before the assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 going into the 1920s and the Soviet Revolution) This game consists of the entire world cut into small regions, accurately representing the borders and geography of all countries that existed at the time of your chosen scenario, with various populations, cities, and resources in each region. In this game (it is a turn based strategy game with each turn taking 1 week) you can choose any country in the entire world and lead that country, industrializing it, modernizing it, engaging in diplomacy with other countries, waging war, facing crisis such as rebellion, invasions, and famine. This game also implements an event system with some events that follow actual history such as the building of the Panama Canal, and others that will be triggered by drastically changing history such as the unification of Scandinavia or the resurrection of the Byzantine Empire. Another interesting thing is that at any time in the game you can save your game and then resume it playing as another country (even countries that didn't exist at the beginning of the scenario you are playing) Another thing that this game possesses is an internal editor that can be used to change many aspects of the game, from creating new countries to changing the values of regions such as nationality or religion. Using the editor you can create amazing new scenarios of alternate history that you can then play and publish to the main website. After about 70 hours of this game I can definitely recommend it,

I'm a big fan of all the Paradox games like Europa Universalis, Victoria, and Hearts of Iron. I really wanted to like this game, set exclusively in the First World War. But the problems with it are too great to overcome.

PROS
- It's nicely complicated, like the Paradox games.
- The graphics are as good as one would like for this type of game.
- Naval warfare is better than any of the Paradox games.

♥♥♥♥
- First and foremost, there is no concept of supply, really. The AI sends units to the most outlandish places with no hope of being supplied. For instance, I was playing Austria Hungary and late in 1914 I was attacked by several Japanese infantry units coming from Finland. That is not an isolated incident.
- Provinces are empty, leading to constant whack-a-mole in your rear areas. Bad enough with rebel uprisings, but when a random cavalry unit from a country 12,000 miles away pops up and conquers half your nation, (see above), it's a real problem. Every game designer should program the EU model where every province has some sort of garrison automatically.
- The AI in general is just poor. No concept of depth in defense, reinforcing weak areas or bottlenecks, and so on. Pretty common in these types of games.

SUMMARY
Nice ideas, nice-looking game, but hamstrung by bizarre AI, lack of supply, and various small bugs with units popping up in the middle of nowhere.

If you are a fan of Paradox Games, Imperial Glory, other Geo Political games such as Super Power 2 you will enjoy this game. The game can be a little overwhelming at first, There is a bit of a learning curve but can easily be learned even with out the tutorial if you have played similar games.

I love the amount of depth this game has, Although war is a major focus point it is far from being the only point. One thing i dislike in similar games is a vast amount of waiting around with nothing to do. This game has plenty to manage while you are waiting for troops to build. If i had to compare this game to another game Supreme Ruler comes to mind as far as what you can do micromanaging wise. As much as i love the Supreme Ruler series this is in my opinion a superior game for the sole reason that i find this game more of a joy to play.

If you are looking for a strictly historical game you may be a little off put as the game is guided towards world war 1 events however it is only a suggestion, I have yet to play a game that was the same, There were times that world war one happened without a hitch and i was fighting off Germans in Belgium, Other times I became the cause of a World War due to my military expansion of Romania. There were times that other conflicts would prevent world war one but start other conflicts around the globe such as Colonial territories rebelling against their owners. The randomness of this game can be a blast.

The game also comes with an Editor that anyone can use, This means that if you want to build a world war two scenario you can, Do you want to recreate the Roman Empire you can, Whatever your imagination can come up with. These scenarios can also be uploaded on the Making History website for all to download.

The Developers are extremely active and listen to the community, I have never experienced the amount of help that is given by the developers to the players than in this game. They have made it clear that this game will continue to be a major focus with continued updates and added features for the foreseeable future.

If you are looking for a game in which you will keep telling yourself one more turn and you realize that was the 30th time you said that then here is the game. Would highly recommend.

Jeu intéressant dans la lignée des jeux 'Making History'. Dommage que les transports de troupes ne soient pas de réelles unités navales comme dans MHII.

Le jeu indique une traduction en Français, c'est faux, seulement 30 à 35% du jeu est traduit en Français, c'est lamentable.

j'ai etait trés sepctique quand j'ai acheté se jeux , mais je suis vraiment pas deçu , un wargame au top de chez top !

Comparés à des jeux comme Victoria 2 (qui certes n'est pas centré sur la 1ère guerre mondiale), je ne peux pas considérer ce jeu comme une bonne affaire. Déjà oublié la langue Française dans ce jeu, ils ont chié un grand coup dessus.
Après 8h de jeu en anglais dessus le verdict est simple: il ne tient pas la route face à la concurrence. Règles de combats mal branlé, politique totalement nullissime, ect...
Je vous le déconseille fortement même la partie encyclopédie est un foutage de gueule.
Test en détail ici avec récit de partie: http://forum.reseau-js.com/topic/92876-making-history-the-great-war/

L'un des 3 meilleurs jeux auquels j'ai joué, avec Age of Empires II et Europa Universalis III.

Seuls bémols : quelques finitions et améliorations seraient les bienvenues.

9.5 / 10