That's not to say that Hearts of Iron is all bad-quite the opposite, in fact, since it offers lots of entertaining gameplay possibilities. You'll need to save your game often, or you risk losing a string of hard-won victories to the game's capricious code. Worst of all, Hearts of Iron is buggy and prone to crash. Some of the pop-up tooltips in the game are either blank or are simply redundant or uninformative. Hearts of Iron doesn't seem like a complete game, since it ships with an essentially unfinished manual and its in-game tutorials are mediocre at best. You can change the way the game displays some information, but doing so can be a chore in itself. The game's interface can at times be clumsy, cluttered, or counterintuitive, and it often bombards you with too much information, or it doesn't give you enough. Hearts of Iron attempts to shoehorn traditional grand strategy, which has long been the province of turn-based gaming, into a real-time format with only partial success.
The meager tutorials don't much to ease the learn curve. But, if you have the time and determination to delve into the game's nuances and can look past its many faults, it can be an engaging game.
Like those games, Hearts of Iron is big, complex, and definitely not for a casual player seeking a little light entertainment. Hearts of Iron was developed by Sweden's Paradox Entertainment, creators of the Europa Universalis strategy series. You get to play as any nation and focus not merely on military might, but also on diplomacy, research, and economics. The game spans the entire globe from 1936 through 1947, roughly following the outline of the actual war but letting you fill in the details. Hearts of Iron takes the well-known conflict World War II and, rather than focusing on small-scale, tactical skirmishes like some other strategy and first-person shooter games, instead looks at the big picture.
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