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Originally Posted by Noober  How does the Europa Universalis series compare to Civilisation/Space Empires IV & V/MoO 2? |
The historical context gives a nice twist and I find that your choice of country and starting time period makes for more variety in play and required strategy to win than your initial choices in Civilisation. Much higher replay value I'd say.
On the other side Civilisation give you far more possibilities to develop your provinces/cities (but that seems to be improved in EU3).
Diplomacy is somewhat richer in EU as in Civilisation, but aspects of diplomacy in Civilisation I'd like to see in EU is the possibility of proposing exchanges (of territory for money for instance) and threatening (give us this or else it'll be war). But I don't know about EU3.
And you are limited by your territory how well you can expand. For "peaceful" expansion you will need to colonise overseas since you're surrounded by other countries in your starting position and not by empty territory as in Civilisation, and colonisation is a long term enterprise. The only other option is to wage war (or get territory through historical moments - e.g. if you play Austria you can choose to inherit parts of the Burgundian domains after the death of the last Duke of Burgundy). Which makes things more interesting in my view.
And EU has random occurrences which also spice up things.