Hearts of Iron 2
by Atari
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Product Summary
Brand: Paradox EntertainmentFormat: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2005-01-04
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP
Model: 26341
Publisher: Atari
Product features:
- Play any World War II front of your choice--over 175 playable countries
- Four major campaigns letting you play the full course of the war as well as 15 battle scenarios including D-Day, Operation Barbarossa and The Ardennes Offensive
- Real Time gameplay with the capability to pause at any time
- Intuitive tutorial and manual for easy access to the gameplay features
- Co-operative multiplayer gameplay allowing up to 32 simultaneous players to share countries; play against each other through a LAN or over the Internet through the Valkyrienet matchmaking service
Video Game Reviews of Hearts of Iron 2
Customer Review: Deep grand strategy game but flawed.
Summary: 3 Stars
This is the best and perhaps the only serious grand strategy game for people interested in the WW2 era. You can play many major nations on all sides and get to experiment with decisions that leads to alternative history. The scale is grand and the gameplay addictive. But overall one cannot escape the feeling that the game could have been much better.
The first problem is the graphics. While strategy games generally have no needs for fancy eye-candy, the resolution in this game is limited to the archaic 1024x768. Thus the players are forced to do a lot of scrolling. This is just a totally unnecessary chore that feels tedious very quickly.
The second issue is game balancing. While the Germans, British and American were reasonably well set, the Soviets statistics do not reflect the horrible consequences of Stalin's purge. The Chinese settings are even farther off, with the communists far better equipped to defeat the nationalists in 1936, the exact opposite of reality, in which the communists escaped total annihilation only through political trickery.
The third problem is the supply model, which allows good supply levels as long as your nation occupies a continuous path to the front. If your allies, on the other hand, control a block of territory in the middle, you are in serious trouble. This is so unrealistic and problematic that one is often forced to resort to contortionist tricks to avoid the situation, which unfortunately occur all too often during joint operations.
There are several other little bugs that the publisher never quite bothered to fix. Overall, due to this game's niche status, it has the feels of a community project instead of a real consumer product, which is too bad because it has so much potential.
Description of Hearts of Iron 2
Hearts Of Iron II makes you supreme ruler of your own country, at the start of World War II. Guide your nation through warfare and diplomacy, and take part in the battles that changed history. Play against each other through a LAN or over the Internet through the Valkyrienet matchmaking serviceMilitary & Espionage Games
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