Superpower

To begin with, the initial set of international relations is always randomic and absurd. Your see your country starting as enemy of various and highly improbable countries in unrealistic fashion (e.g., Mexico versus Switzerland, Tanzania, Mongolia, and Allies with Romenia and Iraq). This leads to invasions and absurd wars (USA being invaded by Bolivia), and so on...

Another quite disappointing topic is that, as a macroeconomist, you can mess with your budget items every week (one week = one turn). In a week, you can move all the resources of your country into scientific research, and wipe out your social or military budget as you please, without any kind of constraint. And you can never see clear results, so you have no way to learn and improve upon your decisions.

Battles are also non-managable. You may see yourself having to lead hundreds of inconsistent military units, which could have been otherwise more intelligently in the game. Likewise, multiple wars are dealt with in matter of weeks...

This leads to another feeling: the game is quite cold and boring; no humans, no action, just numbers and lines crossing the world map, but you just do not see yourself building any project consistently...

On top of all that, Superpower is infested with bugs, which not even the online patch was to fix completely, while the game still keeps all of its inconsistencies and ilogical results.

Superpower is quite randomic, illogical, and frustrating in any criteria, and should be therefore avoided. I, for example, wished I could get my money back.

You basically control any nation in the world. Thats right. In the WORLD. I've played as America, China, Japan, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Vietnam, Italy, and Romania. The list of possibilities goes on. You can declare war and have trade between countries. Actions against other countries affects how thats country's friends, allies, or enemies look at you. If you attack a country on friendly terms with a nation you get most of your resources from, you can easily find your nation's economy shut down overnight due to bad relations.

But the game suffers on several points. One is that there is no real way to create a nice alliance or get the alliance to work. For example, a kind of "NATO" exists in that America is alligned with most of western Europe. But if, say, America gets attacked, the other nations can just sit back and say, "Well, sucks to be you!" It would be nice if the nations reacted to what happens to you and if they acted accordingly. The most serious bug with this game comes if you break relations with many important players...or just attack two or three people. All hell breaks loose and you have World War III on your hands. Every one vs. Every one. I'm not kidding.

There's also the problem with transporting troops: its not realistic. Example: Vietnam attacks (and conquers) Bulgaria. Do you see a problem here? If troop transport was made more realistic, the military aspect of this game would be a lot more interesting.

Its sad to see so much potential wasted by so many problems. Hopefully a newer edition might come out that will improve on this and create a better game.

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