The game I always wanted to play! Or so I thought... Despite some great features, there are simply too many bugs.
User Rating: 7.4 | Hearts of Iron PC
This game is great in many areas. Researching real technologies, building real units, assigning and even promoting historical generals, and conquest. Unlike "axis & allies" type games, you can take over Europe city by city and town by town. Other great features include changing the members of your government, deciding your countries elections, and being able to play the game as any country in the world (even Yemen)! The game is easy to learn despite how complicated it may seem. The real-time aspect is also nice. Only improvements could have been in the diplomacy arena, which seems to lack. BUT!!!! The origonal version of the game is full of so many bugs that it is virtually unplayable. The AI is on vacation and armies disappear out of nowhere. I have the 1.06patch installed and like every other patch for this game it has solved a boatload of problems while creating many more. For example, the bugs are gone but the game is now extreamly difficult even on easy. This is because even the poorest countries can mass-produce units, meaning that the computer players can ignore economic aspects of the game. Also, my super-megapanzers are being totally whipped by a force of Brazillians who are outnumbered 10 to 1. Overall a great game, if you can get it to play right. I'm looking forward to the sequal to this game comming soon.
