Probably the best WW2 strategy game around, i keep coming back!
User Rating: 9.5 | Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday PC
Best in the series. Doomsday has almost everything that is needed for a WW2 grand strategy game. Upgrades, tactical movements, huge armies grappling for world domination, treachery and much more. The addition of spies and an intelligence panel was long awaited, and the extension of tech trees mirrored real life. A nuclear arms race was a great idea, and the opportunity of stealing atomic research from the US for New Zealand as too good to pass up. The graphics do let the game down somewhat, and the soundtrack gets a tad repetitive, but the sheer fun of overrunning England as Ireland cannot be denied. I started as the US, and by 1940 had beaten Germany, Italy in a month and by 1942 American armies marched through Tokyo AND Moscow. What’s not to like?! While it was a bit pricey for me in New Zealand, ($60) I’ve followed the game from HOI platinum, to HOI 2 and now HOI 2, Doomsday. Can’t wait to get a copy of the new Armageddon pack, I'm liking the ideas of attachments to ships and divisions made with brigades already attached. I’ll be playing for years to come!
