Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday picks up right where Hearts of Iron II left off. It extends the original games campaign to 1960, allowing the gamer to relive the cold war era. With this comes new units, nothing major tho, basically just an extended tech tree. A few new sprites are added in, like the American bombers look like B-17's, Britain's look like lancasters ETC... A major addition that the first game was missing is the new Intel tab. This allows you to send spy's to other countries, where they find out valuable information like troop counts, and what that country is focusing their production on. This also opens up all kinds of options, like Sabotage Production, steal blueprints and all the other things you'd expect. All the while countries are sneaking spies into your country to do the same to you, and the only way to solve that is to deploy some spies to act as a sort of secret police to rout out these perpetrators. With no major changes to graphics, its no Rome Total War, but most old HoI players will be content with the new content.
All in all, as a stand-alone game at $20. Its a must buy for any serious strategy fan.
I give it an easy 9/10
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