While it sounds like the player would soon get bogged down under such an avalanche of seemingly minor details, the sum total of all those individual details can add up to huge consequences. In one of our games, the Chinese crushed the Japanese invasion and Russia was able to liberate Europe by the end of 1943.
While the general alliances of the main powers are fixed, the game can go in many interesting directions from there. So you may play a game where France holds out in a war against Vichy France, or where the US joins the Allies in 1937, or where Ecuador and Peru find themselves drawn into the alliances and wind up fighting their own war in South America.
The game also improves on the scripted history of Hearts of Iron II with the addition of new decisions and laws that come up according to preset conditions. And while that's true of many grand strategy games, Hearts of Iron III gets down to such details as hiring and firing specific cabinet ministers, licensing designs for foreign production, building individual brigades, setting invasion times to take advantage of daylight and weather effects, and selecting sites for new rocket test labs. Players can choose to lead any nation they want, from Canada to South Afrika to Japan, and will be in charge of selecting domestic policies, research goals, production priorities, diplomatic positions and army and navy orders.
It also includes a number of pre-set dates so players can jump right into the action after a key moment. Hearts of Iron III is a grand strategy game on a global scale that starts in 1936 and ends in 1947. Your+past+has+already+been+written.+Your+nation's+future+is+up+to+you. For the minority who appreciate the subject matter and are willing to invest the time to actually explore the features, there is a lot to love about this game. Still, be warned that this game is most definitely not for everyone. Since publishers of PC games of the last few years seem to have embraced the misguided notion that every game ought to appeal to every gamer, the unashamed complexity of Hearts of Iron III is, in my opinion at least, an awesome and rare thing. Paradox has refined the interface somewhat, taking advantage of the more refined and polished presentation found in Europa Universalis III and EU: Rome, but that still won't make Hearts of Iron appealing to many outside of the hardcore grognard community. Not surprisingly, this makes for an extremely complex and, to some, overly complicated game that requires a high level of focus and study from anyone who hopes to make the most of it. No other game I've played has come as close to modeling the breadth and depth of the decisions made by the political and military commanders during the war, or rendered the tremendously far-reaching consequences of those decisions in as plausible and thorough a manner. I say "game" but perhaps "simulation" would be a more accurate descriptor. In the best way possible, Hearts of Iron III is exactly what I thought it would be: an unbelievably massive, obsessively detailed, defiantly hardcore military strategy game.
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