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| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $8.98
You Save: $11.01 (55%)
New (7) Used (3) from $7.94
Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 5615
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows Xp
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 2000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.5
MPN: 26341
Model: 26341
UPC: 742725263413
EAN: 0742725263413
ASIN: B0006FZUFY
Release Date: January 4, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 All those hours gone forever.....:-) March 31, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
What can I truly say about HOI II other than the fact that this game has eaten up more of my time than most others combined.
The sheer strategic depth is impressive, and on the most difficult setting, starting out as any country you choose in 1936, you can truly re-write history as you go.
Easily modded, the developers did an outstanding job in all the patch releases, it is highly detailed without being overwhelming, and the hard-wired AI events bring some consistency no matter what direction you decide to take Czechoslovakia, Sinkiang, Honduras, or any other country your heart desires.
One of the best strategy games ever released IMHO, have been playing it well over a year, and am still not burned out from it, as every campaign is different. Very much looking forward to the Doomsday expansion/stand alone, which will enhance the tech tree, and push the timeline from HOI II's 1947 up to 1956, so if you really want a challenge, you can now take all the combatants through twenty years of war and diplomacy.
WORLD WAR 2 AT ITS BEST February 28, 2006
5 out of 16 found this review helpful
This is the best pereoid.Ever scince I got it I've tryed to dominate 3/4 of the world.Ive had America blasted with nukes from ocubied France ,and Irland turn in to a Communist nation.
you can do it all.
TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN IT January 31, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
OK, its not for everyone. It IS extremely complicated but NOT impossibly so if you take the time to learn it. It was a big time investment for me but it paid off. I LOVE the detail. In real war, strategy is as much about your country's other decisions and capabilities, diplomatic, industrial and scientific. They interplay wonderfully here. I am a realism fanatic and thats why I committed myself to it.
I know those who have only tried to learn this game for an hour are going to be frustrated but I am no genius, and after a (long) afternoon I got the hang of it and after a couple of short try-out games I was doing fine and could sink my teeth into the minutiae. If your reading this and you can keep your attention span high for a day, it IS worth it.
I still wish the AI would be more commen sensical in its decisions. It invades some pretty silly places that historically..well..you just know wouldn't have happened. Same with some declarations of war. But if you can get a game where the AI is being rationale and you have honed your expertise, you will be sucked in.
 Erratic AI, do not buy January 28, 2006
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
This game has many great features, particularly interface and historical detail (including individual leaders and weapon types) that easily get you addicted. However the diplomatic aspect is terribly erratic, which totally spoils the game. After playing a grand campaign as Germany and doing extremely well in Europe, I saw Japan ally with me, then make peace with China and surrender all of the territory it had captured, then declare war on the US and China (again) the next day from a much worse military position. When you have spent a week practically glued to the screen to play a historical strategy game, you don't want to see such an ahistorical event any more than you want to see Martians invade Normandy. The designers really have to work on the diplomatic aspect to make this game satisfactory.
 Production, Research,Technology,ect., ect., January 27, 2006
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Just too much to do, to fight world war 2. The United States War College should put this in their curriculum. I like the concept but very, very, complicated to play. It is for the die hard world war 2 strategist.
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