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Game Information
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / Me / XP
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
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
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Product Description
Product Description
World War II Grand Strategy--to secure peace, prepare for war... You are the supreme ruler of a country of your choosing during World War II. Guide your nation through warfare and diplomacy, and take part in the battles that changed history.
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Definitive WW2 Grand Strategy,
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This review is from: Hearts of Iron II (PC) (Video Game)
Hearts of Iron 2 is a game of Massive scope that is suited more to older players and armchair generals;The game spans from the start of 1936 to the end of 1947 (with an expansion due later this year to bring it into the 50s). You can play the game as most countries (including small nations such as luxembourg and Albania aswell as the major warring nations) the game also includes a huge number (1000's) of Military and political figures from all nations who affect the game in different ways. While the game mainly revolves around battles a great deal of game time can also spent dealing with resources, production and research. The combat itself is large scale and abstracted, although nowhere near the risk like abstraction of other titles on this scale; To get the most out of this game you have to put in the time and effort, planning ahead is a necessity of the game. Hearts of Iron 2 is a truly excellent game, but it caters for a small section of the game market, I feel the game has recieved undue critisism due to gamers expecting something more mainstream and action oriented who then, daunted by the scale of the game, post a bad review and scare off people who would love it! Try out the Demo, and if you decide to buy it, download the patches, which add quite a lot of extra content.
28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Goodbye life...,
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This review is from: Hearts of Iron II (PC) (Video Game)
If you are a Paradox fan, or love complex detailed strategy games and are single or would like to get divorced then this is a must own game. It is has many options for difficulty levels and scenario dates allowing you to jump right in in 1939/41 or plan your build up from 1936. You can play 'what ifs' for ever and you're always left wanting to play just one more month... It is enormously time consuming (on the longer scenarios 30 hours+), but highly rewarding and with a huge fanbase of highly professional mods available you're always left thinking, I'll try that again but this time I'll be the Russians / Brits / Yanks / Germans etc etc. Enough writing, I wonder what would happen if the Germans invaded Sweden.....
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Once you begin playing your social life is over,
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This review is from: Hearts of Iron II (PC) (Video Game)
This is a game that is totally dedicated to strategy and game play and low on graphics. It is not easy and takes you though the Second World War and you decide which side to take. Fairly complex to start with, but once you get the hang of it you will end up playing this for hours and hours completely losing track of time in an absorbing game where you will be constantly facing “the next challenge” and not able to switch off.Looks like the expansion pack will solve one complaint and that is to win as the axis powers is virtually impossible by the end of 1947. The other complaint would be that it is a little too easy as the UK or Russia to defeat the Axis Powers (Not a big problem because playing as the Germans or Italians makes the game VERY, VERY hard to win). With regards to the review below, I like the realism of the political state of Europe at the time. If Hitler had invaded Poland in 1936 then he would have been embroiled in a war with no allies and no chance of success – The complexity is added by another level of game play where Politics plays an integral part! For instance countries can offer each other a “guarantee of independence” that will force one country into the war if the other is attacked. This makes it a true meld of Politics, Industry (Supply and Manufacturing), Tactics, War and providing your army with the manpower and latest technology to defeat the enemy.
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