Hearts of Iron 2: Doomsday

Release Date: April 7, 2006

Strategy, World War II, RTS, 2D, war strategy, interwar period, grand strategy, multiplayer, singleplayer, internet, LAN

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A standalone expansion for the universally-acclaimed grand strategy game, Hearts of Iron 2, by Paradox Interactive. The production lets us assume control over a chosen country and lead it to victory on the fronts of the World War II. The player oversees not only the military affairs but also politics, economy, and technological development. The users of Hearts of Iron 2: Doomsday receive the contents of the vanilla game and many novelties.

Doomsday is the title of an expansion for Hearts of Iron 2 for PC, the second installment of one of the best strategy game series set in the times of World War II. Contrary to other production of this kind, the add-on is completely standalone. Hearts of Iron 2: Doomsday comes with the content of the vanilla game enriched with various novelties.

Mechanics

The add-on extends the virtual struggle to the year of 1953 (new missions, such as the conflict in Israel, thus appear). Doomsday also features a completely alternative, playable scenario of the World War II, which lets us see how would our world look like should the military actions had turned out differently than in history books. Moreover, the developers provided the players with an expanded technological development tree (in the arms race, we can construct various kinds of weapons, including an atomic bomb or battle choppers and the like) and the possibility of buying blueprints from our allies.

Other noteworthy novelties include an advanced but user-friendly level editor that comes with the expansion. The designers at Paradox Entertainment also made sure that Doomsday fixes programming issues that have been detected thus far and that it includes better artificial intelligence algorithms.

Last updated on October 2, 2016

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