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Hearts of Iron 3: Semper Fi! – PC Game Review » Armchair General — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:49:03 +0000

[...] been lucky enough, thanks to the fine folks at Armchair General, to review the initial release of Hearts of Iron 3 (HOI3), and now the newest addition to the series, the "Semper Fi!" (SF) [...]

By: Don

Don — Sun, 02 May 2010 20:12:40 +0000

HOI2:DD with Arma is great. I have both, and in fact, this weekend I’ve been playing HOI2. Having a ball as Fortress France holding off the Germans.

I particularly enjoy the TRP mod for HOI2.

By: Erich

Erich — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:00:55 +0000

Excellent and fair review. Nice to see something really in-depth rather the breathless praise the simulation has gotten from novice reviewers who seem overwhelmed by the detail of wargames in general and so tend to pretty much punt on the review: “Gosh – it looks, uh, really awesome for you wargamer types!”. Ugh.

I have one question: How is HOI2 by comparison at it’s current state of development?

I’m dying for a good, detailed, and playable grand strategic WW2 wargame with enough operational detail so it doesn’t feel like a spreadsheet simulator.

By: Scott Ramag

Scott Ramag — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:17:56 +0000

Why can’t players move the time clock any faster ???? That part is very frustrating. I was really looking forward to this game and myself and an out of state wargame fanatic like me were both VERY dissapointed. This game sux, sorry guys cause I wanted it to be a fun game like HOI 2 but this is a BIG step backwards. Too much work and no control over the time clock

By: quetzilla

quetzilla — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:12:32 +0000

The issue with Axis allies not joining into Germany’s war is actually a new bug in 1.3, it was working fine in 1.2 and previously. I’ve investigated it and resolved it to an issue with how the game tracks when a war has started (and left a detailed report in the bug report forum).

I agree it’s still buggy, but ‘an utter and complete mess’ is a bit overboard in my opinion.

By: Bad Vlad

Bad Vlad — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:22:06 +0000

Excellent review. If anything it downplays the issues with the diplomatic/alliance system. You think Brazil in the Axis is strange? Read the hoi3 forums about Japan in the Allies (routinely), Vichy France joining the Comintern, an Axis USA, and all sorts of other nonsense.

What’s worse, the attitude of PI is that this sort of thing is perfectly fine and that to want or expect anything other is to desire (insert contemptuous tone) AN EXACT REPLAY OF WWII.

The other immense problem is the generic AI assigned to each country. For example the USSR and Honduras will theoretically make the same strategic decisions and build the same types of units. If you look at an AI Japan you might see a mass of armor. The AI USSR often has a huge fleet of battleships in the production queue.

Overall, an utter and complete mess even after 3 patches.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:35:04 +0000

accurate review. sad it was released in such a state. although it is playable to some extent it is in no way playable to any type of historical
outcome.