Here is where my only major beef with gameplay arises. Oftentimes morale causes the loss of a battle that losing would be practically impossible. In the end, the playing experience of Europa Universalis is a unique and interesting one. Rather, the focus is placed on the entire process of governing a kingdom, with war and combat as somewhat of an afterthought. For the record, graphically, EU isn't really happening.
Nothing really happens that is graphics intensive in the least.
Sound is a similar issue, at least in my case. I have the creeping suspicion that there was supposed to be music for EU, but no amount of coaxing or prodding from my part got the game to play the music. Oddly enough, music would autoplay from music CDs that I happened to load into the second drive on my computer, but never would the actual game music play. The effects in game are not very good either. I honestly found myself chuckling aloud at the combat sounds, and the rest of the sound effects are simple, quick tones that could have come from games that are almost fifteen years old at this point.