It doesn't yet have the years of extra content that turned CK2 into a modern classic, but as PCGamesN's Ian Boudreau observed, it is a more generous package on day one than its predecessor. Critics are united in their praise for Crusader Kings 3 - putting it alongside Half-Life: Alyx and Microsoft Flight Simulator as one of the very best PC games of the year - but many note that it is very much the fresh start that Wester suggested. The degree to which Crusader Kings 2 had become indistinguishable from its expansions is evident in reviews of the long-awaited third game in the series. We might need to take the etch-a-sketch, shake it a little bit, and start over.' 'It wasn't really built for all of the expansions we made,' he said. When we spoke to Paradox's then-CEO Fredrik Wester in July 2018, he described the cumulative effect of bolting years of additional content and systems onto a framework built in a different era of video games. Indeed, the Holy Fury expansion pack in 2018 sold more units at launch than any before it - and believe me when I say there have been plenty of those.Ī sequel may not have been an absolute economic necessity, then, but it was certainly desirable on a technological level. The second game in the series was released in 2012, and yet it was still driving revenue for the Swedish publisher a full seven years later. In Paradox Interactive's ever-expanding catalogue of games, no single product better exemplifies its strategy than Crusader Kings.

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