There is a game called Making History the Great War which came out long time ago, this is the exact same game, they just changed the name and selling it like it's new. There is nothing much new, in fact this game has too many bugs which makes it unplayable. Developers say that the game will leave early access soon, I'm not sure how this game can leave early access like this.

* After my comments on the discussion forum I was banned by the developers because they did not like my opinion. I own both games the old one and this one and I believe I have right to have and express my opinion without getting banned by a developer who doesn't like it. Never buying any other games from this company again. They need to learn how to respect people's opinion instead of banning people for no reason.

Really? They are still using directx9 for the game. It's Just a copy of the previous one with exact the same problems. Only difference is that now you have m.g. unit's. Actually I could have done the same with the editor of the game.

What kind of world war game is it when the war never happens? The diplomacy needs to be fixed before this game is worthwhile. I played twice now building up my forces, preparing for the war, and then the assassination happens and they never go to war. Also if you are a power like Italy, you can never gain favor with any of the major allies and can never join the alliance. Another stupid thing is that you have a minor power almost beat, you have most of their provinces, then you offer great terms to them where they only lose one or two provinces and they never accept it. Diplomacy is just screwed and it ruins the whole game.

a wonderful upgrade to the previous "The Great War", better graphics and new stuff like mines, techs and events, so if you like any of the other in the making history series, this one is a very nice catch already

A good mix between a Hearts of Iron and a CIv, with a ton a unique game features (the logistic system is my personnal favorite). If you have enough patience to handle the steep learning curve (mostly because of a minimal tutorial, no youtube videos to learn from and an atrocious UI), you will find an extremely satisfying/rewarding grand strategy game.

It's a re-skin of their previous Making History: The Great War with a much worse soundtrack. I couldn't take the soundtrack anymore so I quit to write this. If you have the old version, you don't need this one unless slightly (and I mean slightly) better graphics are worth $25 to you. If you have neither and want to try one, I guess get this one since it is somehow less money than the old one or just get whichever one goes on sale first.

It appears to be nice and a good game, but "out of memory"-crash is making it impossible to play

This is a really solid improvement on a game series that was already quite good.

Massively expanded event list, unit health system, more unit types, greater use of terrain modifiers, and attrition damage really add so much to the game's fun historic play style.

there is one reason why,above all other grand strategy titles i've played in the past: i've always come back to the making history series and even bought more general licenses of it then i can possibly recount,in sheer support of the dev team.

its a very simple reason but it makes all the difference:

the making history series: Atleast those i've played from muzzy lane's great war onwards: are the only games i've seen that get how Empires of the late 19th and early 20th century would control and manipulate the world into the palm of their hands.

let me explain this by an example:

imagine for a minute your greece in 1912 and you just invaded and conquered liberia: the options you have at the moment of conquering a nation are beyond the scope of any divide and conquer i've seen in even the greatest grand strategy titles:

at the moment your brought monrovia to its knees and taken liberia,you have a ton of different object of what yould like to do with that country:

you can do the obvious thing and just annex libera as a part of your territory,encorporating the unique religious and ethnic nature of liberia's people into your own empire,for better or worst

you can decide to make liberia into "greek liberia"-a colony with an imperial governor,kind of like how hong kong was to great britian at the time

you can decide to make liberia a protectorate: let them govern their interal affairs directly,without you offering any inside control but voiding liberia's right to arm itself or do anything on the world stage without your hear say

one of my personal options is the fact you can reshape liberia into a puppet state in literally whatever constolation you can reasonable think of:

you decide this african christian and muslim democracy would suddenly become an absolute monarchy that with shinto as its main religion...you can even go entirely wilder then that: make liberia into "provisional government" you would be relinquishing in future to let a.i led criticism off your back

and whats even crazier is that: since the entirety of the making history series has the map divided into terrotiries with ethnic and religious makeups that form loose goverments and not total monoliths like you would expect from something like supreme ruler or heart of iron: you as say,the german empire: can decide to make liberia into an independent facist nation with the religion of hinduism as its state religion and then even hand them over the entirety of bavaria and give them strasburg as a capital...it literally gets that specific

and thats on top of there being an influence system where you can basically fund and buy a coup in a certain country which with enough luck and timing or strategy support of certain facitonal identity in a country you can totally create: there can literally be a situation were in 1912: the austro hungarian empire can just funnel funds into serbia's theological leaning factions and ultimately,through influence: force them coup against their goverment so by the time 1914 rolls along: serbia would be an austrian orthodox theology as a buffering puppet state between it and albania...which is insane in my eyes

overall: if you ever wanted to do some serious colonial manipulation and scrambling of the world stage but still keep it at the length of the a single world war and no longer then that historical length of time: this would be your game

For those that loved The Second world War this is a great upgrade, with better graphics. Love the addition of the machine gun unit. Runs faster and bigger screen size which helps get a bigger picture of what is all going on. So far my only negative is the 300 turn limit with everything taking so long to build would be nice for a longer turn limit editor is not ready yet can't wait to see all the mods once the game is fully finished.