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Hearts of Iron 2 (2005)
January 20, 2005
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Mostly better, not everything

Rating:
90%
by: valrond ( February 09, 2005 )
Experience: 1 Week - 1 Month

» Pros 
If you've played Hearts of Iron, you know what you get here, I'm going to outline the main differences.

-The Air and Naval forces are much better organized now, you can assign them a mission for as long as you want or till a condition is met.

-The World Market is gone and now you can trade directly to every country.

-The game doesn't have any serious bugs out of the box, as it happened with HoI.

-The research is more easily handled, with groups of research (like Ford, Messerchmitt...) with skills and a simpler technology tree. You get penalized for researching before the real time of the discovery.

-Land battle AI is much better, and now combats are in the frotiers, you can support the attacks from several fronts.

» Cons 
-Graphics are still poor, lack of sprites, 1 sprite for all planes, one for infantry, 1 for Tanks.

-Air and Naval AI are still quite stupid.

-Diplomacy needs some rework, alliances are forever.

-technology tree way too simple, makes all units the same for every country (infratry '39, light improved tank...)

-Fixed resolution of 1024x768

» Review 
It's overall a better game, but some thigs aren't an improvement.


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