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Hearts of Iron 2 review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wonderfully complex and addictive game with good replay value (other countries do not behave the same under different levels of difficulty).

Not Historical

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 38
Date: May 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you are looking for an interesting war game you may like this one. If your looking for a historical accurate game look elsewhere.

Wow! this really sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 58
Date: June 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is impossibly complicated. What a useless game. You are better off just watching some tv or going for a walk at the park than trying to play this abomination of micromanagement. What a waste. I want to throw up. And I wish I could have my money back. Dont buy this garbage.

Not for me

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

There is much to like about this game but there are two things I don't like about this game and for me they are killers. The visuals are dull, boring, bland, and cartoonish in my opinion; I just don't like looking at the game. The second is unrealistic outcomes. Take for instance the Ardennes offensive. It is very easy for the Germans to take and hold Antwerp, and to win this scenario. IRL this would have been near impossible. Given the weather, the state of their forces, and their supply situation it would have been hard just to drive to Antwerp. So if I don't like looking at a game and all my research and planning may or may not lead to a realistic outcome... I don't want to play it.

Production, Research,Technology,ect., ect.,

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: January 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Just too much to do, to fight world war 2. The United States War College should put this in their curriculum. I like the concept but very, very, complicated to play. It is for the die hard world war 2 strategist.

the best ww2 strategy game...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i liked the original hearts of iron, although it crashed a lot. but this one is significantly better in many ways, and is a lot more stable as well. this is the unquestioned king of ww2 strategy games, there is no doubt. it is a brilliant game.

Great Game: Neither Hard or Easy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is by far one of the best war games out there. There are several nations a player can choose, and a wide range of technologies to help improve the capabilities of the nation one picks. Also, creating more troops and the managing of government adds a challenging aspect to the game. Strategy is crucial, and a wrong move can be devastating.

Still, the game is by no means hard. Sure, it is complicated at first, but the game becomes completely easy after taking all of the tutorial scenarios and playing a couple of easy short campaigns within the game (Such as the German invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Spanish Civil War).

Nonetheless, there are some "bad" aspects to the game, such as:

-Aside from the "main areas" of World War II, the rest of the world holds large chunks of land for their provinces (By which I mean, a small nation like Italy has various sections within its national borders, while a larger nation like Peru or Colombia hold over-sized provinces).

-The production time can at times become very long and boring, especially if there is no easy way to make things rush. Sure, don't get me wrong, there is an option to increase the game speed; but even at the maximum speed, which is the speed I always play in, the game is still very slow. There's not even a cheat to make the game go faster.

-Technologies are more favorable for the "main nations" of the time, whereas the other nations are practically forced to have a slower technological output without a chance to increase the amount of teams that can work at a technology--not even if you expand the nation you pick by conquering its neighbors, the technological team simply stays the same.

Lastly, even though this game is great, my recomendation is that you buy "Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday," which is a stand-alone X-pack and holds all the aspects of this game while also expanding the timeline and governmental actions (such as espionage) in the game.

WORLD WAR 2 AT ITS BEST

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 18
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is the best pereoid.Ever scince I got it I've tryed to dominate 3/4 of the world.Ive had America blasted with nukes from ocubied France ,and Irland turn in to a Communist nation.
you can do it all.

HOI 1 or HOI 2?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 16
Date: January 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The sequel of the best WW2 strategy game to date arrived. Anyone that bought HOI 1 in the past might have realised though that the game was not worth much until excited owners that saw great potential in the game system begun to modify the basic programme. The best attribute of Paradox games is that they could be almost fully customisable by owners and these modifications made by independent communities are in fact shared freely in several websites (e.g. make a quick search for CORE and Stony Road). In fact thanks to those modifications HOI 1 became rapidly a huge success being at the moment the best WW2 simulation to date (this is currently including HOI 2 I am afraid).

Unfortunately from several HOI 1 veterans that already own HOI 2 the general critic is that the pure vanilla game (without customers programme modifications -non Paradox related- which because the game is newly released they do not seriously exist just yet) the game is not worth much and it is easy to see how disappointed they are.

My suggestion to the people that own HOI 1 is to continue using it together with the custom mods (it took more than two years to evolve to where we stand now with the game and I can assure the result is awesome) and wait to buy HOI 2 until the veteran community begin to release the game corrections and modifications (Paradox is also famous for their bugs and terrible graphics although as I said almost everything can be improved with time by the customer community and it will be). This will take minimum 2 to 3 months which means that if you are desperate to get the game you should wait until around April 2005 if we are lucky to have the initial serious attempts. If you have never played HOI in the past I would go for the first version of it which should be at least half the price and together with the free downloadable mods it is better than the current HOI 2. Again I would expect that with time and the help of the HOI community this will be reverted and as an added bonus HOI 2 will also be much cheaper without having to pay the release price.

Ha

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 35
Date: January 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As you all can see, the guy who is two post below me has no life and thus should not be taken seriously.

It is a very good game. Thank You :)

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