Hearts of Iron 4 Review

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[dobbsy]

The world war 2 we all know and love? Not sure they are the right words

[mattpowers]

"Individual heroism is lost" Pretty sure that's the point. Individuals are swallowed by the machine of war and all that is important is the end goal in the upper mind of the generals

[ThePeacemaker]

Complicated hard to understand battle mechanics? ....would not be a paradox game without that.

[dannycai]

5 Hours in and i finally figure out how to attack....

[ThePeacemaker]

careful, if you complain too much about performance issues they will cut the AI programming to make is stupider.

[mrhoeivo]

"...the World War II we all know and love." Yeah, I love war and atrocity.

[joemomma]

>Incredibly complex
I am betting you haven't played other Paradox games.

[elchungo]

I love WWII, especially that part when tannu Tuva went fascist and made an empire that stretched from Korea to Kiev

[sharky]

Finally I can live my fantasy of an ethnically pure europe.

[DGP]

''Free American Empire''

Oh God, I shed a tear here, that sounds beautiful

[xNevikKx]

Had me at invade Canada..lost me at performance problems.

[originolbunnyman]

"Will require hundreds of hours to master, both in game and pouring over wiki articles that read like an economic text book"???? For who? It's not that complicated, and it takes a few hours to get the basics and play the game.

[TrickWithAKnife]

It looks incredible, but I don't have the time or patience to start playing.

[HeyMyNameIs...]

when it released it was great and i loved every moment of it learning and capturing country's under El Duche of italy being much stronger than germany and taking all the credit. after some time i began to lose intrest because of many small problems with the game so i stopped playing and waited until many things were patched and improved.
Now almost a year and 5 months later the game has completely changed in many parts of it systems. The air combat is better than ever, more (smaller) country's have being added with new political and focus ideas thrown into the mix and with more on the way (chinese expansion with reworked events system, general ranking, production changes, ...) i feel like they are truely listening to the us and making things better.
I highly recommend this game to anyone who wants to jump into Grand Strategy games in general, it's hard to learn and it's not easy to master but if you take the time to play a few games, watch a couple of really good tutorial's on youtube and fail a bunch of games. You will turn to become a great HoI4 player while having fun at the same time and please in what other game can you tell your friends you made germany a pacifist or made the US fascist or communist and took over most of Amerca while doing political coups in other european country's and overthrowing stalin. Yes this game is for you my friend ! 9/10

[menacingmage]

Did he seriously say, the world war 2 we all know and love..?

[elliotclose]

Whenever I play games like this I create my own story. Why this happened, give character to my generals, its like your childhood legos, they give you the pieces, you create the story.

[ThatWookieGuy]

Picked it up but not looking forward to the barrage of DLC that will set me back by $300 by the end of the year.

[Sergelgar]

"world war 2 that we all know and love"? lol

[henry]

3:40 Meanwhile I'm just watching a plane fly through someone's face...

[osamamohammed]

at least you have a vaild casus belli to invade the hell out of people