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Interesting but ultimately unfulfilling

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've played this game with the 1.05 patch, which greatly changes the game, i.e., making it a lot harder to do well. It's too much of a simulation. It's hard to do things that didn't happen in real life. It's very time-consuming and complex. Micromanagment is critical to success. If you have the patience for that, you might like the game.

Geat Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

In response to Michael L. Starzec's review
Michael I belive that you are wrong. It is very much possible to defeat Germany in this game. As Nationalist China you can also defeat Japan granted it is difficult it can be done. And don't be doing any Ethiopa bashing, I have before on the hardest level of the game soundly defeated Italy with Ethiopia in East Africa if you would like to know how, I would be more than happy to explain. MY ONLY COMPLAINT is that the Game is to easy. I believe this game is ment for multiplayer games they are much more difficult and fun to play. I suggest you try some.

It is not EU2, so don't buy it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: August 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After playing EU2, I was very excited about this game. As a graduate with a history and political science major in college, I was extremely impressed with the historical accuracy of EU2 which engaged the player in the historical milieu of Europe from 1450 through 1820.

The problem with this game is that unless you want to play a major power, you have no chance of having any fun. I tried playing Poland, South Africa and Ethiopia. With Poland, I worked with the idea of at least holding off Germany with a decent defensive war. Unfortunately, starting in 1936 gave me three years to try to undo all the Polish military shortfalls. Even with the 20/20 hindsight of history, I could not stop the Germans juggernaut. Likewise, good luck if you play Ethopia. If you are required to play the major powers to have any chance of success, it completely undoes the fun of EU2, in which you could play any country and with some skill and luck, make a reasonable show of skill and change the course of history, which is why you are playing this game.

In EU2, I was able to make the declining power, Venice, into a Mediterranean power, defeating Turkey. Likewise, I was able to change history completely when Poland eliminated Russia, allied with Austria and survived to fight Napoleon or when Brittany decline to accede to be part of France or a lackey of England. In this game, the short time span makes it impossible to do anything with the minor powers. Thus, it essentially allows you to fiddle with Nazi Germany to see if it can defeat Russia early and stop the Allies in the West: Whoopee!! I get to make the genocidal maniacs succeed, how fun!

This is a game with a ton of possibilties that is limited by a too short time frame. If it started in 1918, then there might be a chance to make the game fun playing unusual minor powers. As it stands, just pray you survive the Nazi onslaught if you decide to play the Allies. Very disappointing.

Worthless garbage!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: October 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Paradox took a great concept and ruined it completely. Their obsession with real-time gaming made what was a promising idea into a mess. There are simply too many things to manage and the flow of the game is ruined by having to think about issues like technology and resources; why can't the computer look after these, I only want to plan a war! And then the combat interface is a joke: imagine sending an army to invade a territory while losing the territory you invaded from being itself occupied by an enemy force - ridiculous! It couldn't happen in real life but it does in HoI. My advice: save your money and buy Strategic Command.

Liked Europa Universalis, hated this game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When I heard this game came out and that it was by the same makers as EU, I was excited to start playing. I was very disappointed. This game, in my opinion, was harder than Europa Universalis--too hard to make it enjoyable. I still think though that the game is well put together and would be very interesting for those that like this era of history. Not for the light gamer.

Hitler reincarnates!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 17
Date: November 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I don't have the game yet - but do own EU 1, 2 and have been closely following the HOI forums. With the depth and complexity of this game - managing research, army formations, ministers, diplomacy, naval and air warfare, resources, production and industry - whoaa! A wargamer's wish come true! The HOI forums at paradox.com would fill you in with the exact features of the game. Caveat though - if you are the type of person who wants an action filled shabang game - stay away. My only beef with this game is the time span although I am sure someone will mod this anyway. I am a civ fan but this game would be more complex in depth.

very addictive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

i had to run from store to store because it was sold out, but i was lucky enough to get it the day before thanksgiving (and the closed stores). it really is quite an awesome game. buy it if you are like me and will disregard the outside world to send panthers and tigers deep into russia.

THE NEW MEANING OF THE WORD "DUNG"!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: November 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game gives the word "DUNG" a new meaning, very sloppy programming, out of the box this game was horrible, five patches later, almost six now, it's till horrible. The AI has no AI at all worth playing against. Unless you like slaughtering the whole board that is and playing an ahistorical game all the way around. I took a minor like Brazil and crushed the Germans and Italians, BRAZIL!! woopee a real major power overwhelms the world in WWII and single handedly destroys the Axis powers with little or no help at all from the so-called computer allies who's greatest endeavor was sending a division at a time to be crushed by the 20 to 40 divisions guarding the coastlines of France. Pathetic game. I agree with another poster, save your money and get a quality game from Battlefront.com "Strategic Command", you can bet it will at least be challenging and not a "toddlers toy" like HOI.

frustrating

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

TOOO many gliches and inconsistantancies to be anything but frustrating. Freeze downs on movement of any factor to the others is not consistant with any software like this..just shows despite the "packaging" which is impressive that little effort was put into the battle sequences...an awful lot of program blow offs and aborts are present which shows lack of debugging..rush it to market and let the user beware

so few owe so many an apology...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: February 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is cumbersome and sluggish. The only reason I didn't give it 1 star is because I havn't spent weeks trying to figure it all out. For people who loved Axis and Allies but wanted more, sit back and keep on dreaming. This game does not deliver.

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