Europa Universalis 3: Napoleon’s Ambition is now available for the Mac, thanks to the efforts of Virtual Programming. The expansion pack to Europa Universalis III costs $19.95 and is available for purchase and download from VP’s Web site.
Europa Universalis III is an empire-building strategy game set in Europe during the Age of Exploration. Napoleon’s Ambition extends gameplay with an expanded timeline up to 1820, encompassing the years of the French Revolution and Napoleon.
The pack incorporates new leaders, new rulers, advisor wars, countries and national ideas, dozens of new units, historical options that show rulers, leaders and advisors that appear on accurate historic dates. Also new in this release is an improved interface — a new map mode for trade that lets you display all goods that will be produced in its province.
The trading system has also been enhanced to let you focus on trading centers you want to use, and now includes a new rule for overseas trade.
System requirements call for the original Europa Universalis 3, Mac OS X v10.3.9 or later, Intel or G5, GeForce 5200, Radeon 9600 or GMA950 graphics with 64MB VRAM, 512MB RAM and 700MB hard disk space.