Heart's of Iron II is perhaps the first real World War two simulation game I have ever played.
User Rating: 9 | Hearts of Iron II PC
When I was first introduced this game, or rather, came across it, I always thought that it would be just another WW2 game with tanks and soldiers fighting. I, however, still bought the game and found it to be surprisingly addictive and interesting. The game is real time strategy though it looks like a turn-base in the screenshots. Heart's of Iron 2 offers a lot of different factions and you have the whole world as your battle ground, you not only control the military but the economy and diplomacy as well. The details of the game and the amount of research that has been placed to it is very impressive, and, most of the time, it is historically accurate. But still, no thing is perfect and it does have it's flaws, one of which is that the game ends to abruptly, another is the AI's inability to follow historicaly triggered events and the tutorial is not really a help, take's some to to getting used to.
In all, however, Heart's of Iron 2 gives you a great gameplay and will keep you occupied for hours, it is extremely addictive. The Faction's are well balanced and the game overall is great! Play as the defenders of Democracy and form the Allied Nations, or let nations tremble before the Axis war machine.
