If you have played Europa Universalis chances are you have at least heard of Magna Mundi.  It has been a mod for Europa Universalis III for quite some time now.  Now Magna Mundi is going to be fully loaded.  Magna Mundi, meaning "Great things of the World" in Latin, has a full development team and should be released as it's own game sometime in mid January 2012.

Even though the game is originally a mod of Europa Universalis III, it will be nothing like Europa Universalis III, just as the mod was nothing like it.  Unrealistic things happen in Europa Universalis III.  Things that would never happen even in alternate universes.  Magna Mundi will be the opposite and will be shooting for historical realism and depth.  This will be a political game where you have to deal with the realities of the times.  The game will last from 1453 to 1815. ...

Strategy-fans will know that our beloved genre as many layers, and many faces. Turn-based, Real-time, Grand, Tactics, mainstream, hardcore... different gamers have different tolerances for the various nuances within the genre, but no-one can doubt that when it comes to strategy, a key ingredient is passion. It takes a special kind of gamer though to have so much passion for a game that they want to take it – as complex and deep as it already is – and times that by a thousand.

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Magna Mundi is the latest project to come out of Paradox Interactive's mod-to-game (not official name) series, which if you don't know is a series of popular mods for some of their titles that have been given a budget and support. This one is based on the Europa Universalis franchise, and has been overhauled to keep up with the latest technologies that Paradox is using internally. You browse the online communities of some of these games, especially in the mod section, and can't help but marvel at the lengths some of these fans go to to make a game fit their vision. Now imagine what that would look if they'd had some money....

Magna Mundi es uno de aquellos juegos cuyo origen se remonta a las inquietudes de jugadores que quieren mejorar un juego que les apasiona. En este caso, es el resultado de modificar Europa Universalis III, cuyo mod “Magna Mundi” ha inspirado la creación del juego completo bajo el mismo título.

En la pasada Gamescom 2011 tuvimos la oportunidad de charlar con Carlos Serna, uno de los desarrolladores de este nuevo título de estrategia. Si algo pude captar tan sólo empezar la conversación es la pasión y entusiasmo detrás de la creación de Magna Mundi. Una motivación resultante de poder trabajar en aquéllo que más te gusta....

We met up with Magna Mundi's Carlos Gustavo to talk a bit more about the mod project turned full game...

Paradox Interactive and Universo Virtual have released a couple of new videos for Magna Mundi, a Grand Strategy game that immerses the player in history’s great epochs from the fall of Constantinople through to the Age of Discovery in the West. Magna Mundi is scheduled for launch in Q4 2011...