Victoria 2 has gone gold

[Shams]

Hi everyone,

We just released the following press release! Get it while it's hot!

Like the trailer?

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Victoria 2 Pre-order starts as game goes gold! Set For August 13th Release​

NEW YORK – August 2nd, 2010 – Paradox Interactive announced today that the highly anticipated grand strategy game, Victoria 2, has gone gold and the pre-order has started on leading digital distribution outlets. Created by the development team behind the likes of Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron, Victoria 2 is a grand strategy game set during the colonial era of the 19th century. Gamers will guide their nation from the era of absolute monarchies in the early 19th century, through expansion and colonization in hopes of becoming a truly great power by the dawn of the 20th century.

Victoria 2 is scheduled for release on August 13th and will be published worldwide by Paradox Interactive. The PC title will also be available for digital download on all leading digital distribution platforms.

Paradox Interactive has released a new trailer to celebrate the occasion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uXnr8pwXOM

Pre-ordering the games gives immediate access to a bevy of content including the official Victoria 2 Soundtrack plus an exclusive in-Game operettic musical piece called "Lament for the Queen" as well as the Victoria 2 manual, techguide, map and Victoria 2 forum codes that gives access to a Victoria 2 strategy guide when the game is released.

The game is available for pre-order here: www.victoria2.com/game-info/buy-the-game

For more information, join the community on www.facebook.com/victoria2game visit www.victoria2.com or www.paradoxplaza.com you can also follow the game on Twitter at www.twitter.com/victoria2game

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[Shams]

Well I did sort of like it in an affectionate sort of way, but it just seemed ridiculously over the top and silly. It had all this big dramatic music and then just a few little figures moving across the map. It's just simply not the sort of game that really works with that sort of dramatic trailer and thus the results are invariably quite comical I feel.

So what kind of trailer would satisfy you?

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[Shams]

To be quite honest I'm not sure you stand to gain anything at all from making a trailer. Someone who has the patience to actually play and enjoy a game like Victoria 2 I would think will have the patience to read the actual useful information about the game, and if you don't have that patience you probably won't be terribly inspired by a video of a few little figures moving along a map.

Unless you're planning on putting your trailer on the TV in commercial breaks I wouldn't have thought it's really an awful lot of use.

That's simply not true. There are hundreds of sites who are clamoring for trailers and it's actually the best way to show off a game - in motion.

The trailers we make for our games are (most often) a mix of what we know will appeal to our forumites and people who have no/little knowledge of our games.

Yes show a blocky soldier marching over a landscape isn't super sexy but at the same time we want to give a fair picture of the game.

Making trailers is a real challenge for our games.

We're doing something really different with the launch trailer. I think you guys are going to love it.

More on that next week

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[Shams]

I think the trailer is awesome.

Mostly because instead of the other trailers that just show you random pieces of the game it tells a short story, about uniting Italy, and leading that nation to Victory.

Yes! that was exactly our idea!

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