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Hearts of Iron 3 - Collections (PC CD)

by Paradox Interactive
Windows Vista / XP / 2000 / 7  Ages 7 and Over
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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Game Information

  • Platform:   Windows Vista / XP / 2000 / 7
  • PEGI Rating: Ages 7 and Over
  • Media: Video Game

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  • ASIN: B005DD6QWU
  • Item Weight: 82 g
  • Release Date: 25 Nov 2011
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,300 in PC & Video Games (See Top 100 in PC & Video Games)

Product Description

System Requirements

  • Windows 2000/XP/Vista
  • Intel Pentium IV 2.4 GHz or AMD 3500+ (quad core)
  • 2GB RAM
  • 2GB hard disk space
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 or ATI Radeon X1900 videocard
  • DirectX-Compatible soundcard
  • DirectX: 9.0c or more
  • 3-button mouse, keyboard and speakers
  • Internet Connection

Product Description

 

It’s time to dust off the field marshal's baton and take command of any nation in World War II; the largest conflict in history. The first expansion to the critically acclaimed Hearts of Iron III lets you take charge - or delegate - at any level, from division to nation, through a variety of scenarios.



Features:

  • Lead any one of 100 different countries from 1936 to 1948
  • Explore the advanced Technological system with hundreds of categories
  • Interact with thousands of historically accurate military commanders and politicians
  • Realistic military command AI allows for unprecedented levels of interaction.
  • Historical accuracy combined with an unparalleled level of freedom of choice
  • Experience the most detailed depiction of World War II ever created on a map covering the entire world
  • Flexible technology system with hundreds of categories, where major powers get their own unique attributes
  • Mobilization and reserves gives the option of surprise attacks, Blitzkrieg made real
  • Government-in-exile makes it possible to continue to struggle from abroad with underground movements and uprisings against the oppressing power

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Game 23 Jun 2012
Amazon Verified Purchase
Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   
This game will own you! Great fun and very workable now it has been put together with expansions - Take the time to watch all of the tutorials by Surray01 on Youtube which are essential to any newcomer. With his advice, as Germany, I managed to defeat the UK and the Russians by aug 1944 and to date keep the U.S out of the war! (Although the aid of historical hindsight likely benefited as well).
Only concern is that the extra sprits appear not to work - I have found the solution in the forums but as it is not important to the way I play did not bother trying.
Operation unthinkable is a worthwhile addition to boot.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Superb game .. and now very easy to get into 17 Oct 2012
By Nats
Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   
I loved Hearts of Iron 2 but I always considered Hearts of Iron 3 to be absurdly complex with its new Orders of Battle communications system and vastly increased number of provinces. Plus the map looked horrid, grey and dark and everyone played with counters because the sprites looked terrible. So I kept with HOI2 until I made an impulse buy when I noticed a new expansion was being released called Their Finest Hour. I bought this from Steam but its the same package although a word of warning - you cannot buy the latest expansion on Amazon at the time of writing.

Anyway this package covers all the previous expansion packs and most of the sprite packs as well. This is a mixed blessing because two of the sprites packs conflict with each other and you have to mess around with some of the game file to correct this. If you don't like doing that kind of thing (it's actually pretty simple and tells you all you need to know on the Paradox website forum) you shouldn't buy this, get the base HOI3 game on its own instead and get the expansions and sprite packs separately (more easily done on Steam than getting it all on amazon it has to be said).

Also some of the sprites are corrupted and also need some files adding into them to resolve black American tanks and a weird corrupted sprite that manifests itself for all the close Germanic axis countries such as Romania and Austria. Again its all pretty easy to do but you have to dig into the forum to find these things out - Paradox haven't made this resolving these issues easy by for example releasing a patch that does all this for you. This is why I have given the game 4 stars not 5.

The good news is there are a lot of mods available to correct things like the dull map, dark sea, etc and the sprite packs generally vastly improve the vanilla games sprites. So overall the game looks a lot better than it did on release.

Also with the three expansion packs (of which only two are provided here, the latest one having been released only a few weeks ago) the game plays really well now. The AI is very good, the game acts relatively historically and most importantly for me, the game now includes quite a few scenarios. These are battles where all you have to control is the combat not the diplomacy etc. These scenarios include The Battle of the Bulge and The Desert War. These scenarios have a couple of annoying historical glitches but are hugely enjoyable to play, especially if you want to play a quick game or are learning the game. You also get a vastly clearer Order of Battle system that adds a lot of fun to the game. Plus you can easily start a campaign at any of the major turning points in WW2 such as Pearl Harbour or Operation Barbarossa.

And the other good thing is there are now several superb videos on the Paradox forum site that explain exactly how to play the game so you don't have to read the manual before you play. This is a godsend because, it has to be said, the in game tutorials are absolutely terrible and not worth bothering with at all. Watch the videos, then read the manual later. Don't bother with the tutorials.

Overall then it is a superb game, it is far more enjoyable than HOI2 is but it stays with what made that game so much fun and improves on it in every way. With the expansions, and especially the new expansion, the game has grown now into the game it always should have been. So there really is no need to keep off buying this masterpiece if you love WW2 strategy.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Strategy game 28 May 2012
By Darren
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Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   
Brilliant Strategy Game.

Takes a while to get up to speed with everything thats going on, But the effort meets the rewards with a great gaming experience.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars great
Fantastic game that has given me hours and hours of anoracky fun. It's deffinately a game for ww 2 enthusiasts wanting historical and technical accuracy and the opportunity to step... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Dodo
5.0 out of 5 stars Replacement
I bought this as a replacement for one i left overseas, great playing as one of major players from 1936 to end of game period and various levels allow you to learn and test self.
Published 2 months ago by Gibgills
4.0 out of 5 stars Detailed & engrossing
There are few games on release that satisfy the appetite for detail as much as HOI3 does. I would highly recommend this to anyone who does not mind not knowing where the week went
Published 2 months ago by K McCarthy
4.0 out of 5 stars The Grand Strategy - without equal.
The best of the series with all but the very latest add on.

There are some excelent tutorials on uTube for the impatient.
Published 2 months ago by norman6350
1.0 out of 5 stars Unplayable
My computer has double the system requirements necessary to play yet this game still runs slow as hell. It's quite simply broken and none of the patches fix this problem. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Zero
5.0 out of 5 stars great
no problem with item fits hood bit fiddly but that just me would order again yes yes yes yes yes
Published 4 months ago by Mark Shackleton
3.0 out of 5 stars Potentially brilliant, practically over-complex
First things, I loved HOI2. It took a while to get into but was very rewarding once you cracked the basics. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. A. Sands
5.0 out of 5 stars just awsome
it was a great idea from paradox and is even more enjoy able than the original game and if you have "semper fi", the collection includes "for the motherland" that finishes off any... Read more
Published 11 months ago by ed
5.0 out of 5 stars The absolute best of the genre.
If you begin to play this game don't make any plans. Incredibly addictive. The details and huge variety makes it head and shoulders above other similar games.
Published 11 months ago by R. Gray
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