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Only info so far is
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Paradox Interactive keeps the Grand Strategy genre in its iron grip with the much awaited announcement of Hearts of Iron 3
New York, USA (August 20, 2008) – Amidst a backdrop of fevered online speculation, Paradox Interactive has today finally revealed the true identity of "Project Mayhem" at the Games Convention in Leipzig. The next Grand Strategy title to be released from the Paradox Interactive development team is the third instalment in the critically acclaimed Hearts of Iron series.
The Hearts of Iron series has become renowned for beingthe biggest, most detailed and complete strategic game series on World War 2 ever made. Hearts of Iron 3 will follow that tradition closely while focusing on satisfying veteran players through a multitude of brand new features and systems, including a huge map with more than 10,000 provinces.
It's clear this is a game that fans of our titles have been eagerly anticipating", commented Johan Andersson, Head of Development at Paradox Interactive. "Before revealing the project, our upcoming announcement online forum received more than 14,000 page views in less than 24 hours with a third installment of Hearts of Iron seemingly being at the top of everyone's wish list."
Hearts of Iron 3 is scheduled for release in Q3, 2009. For any enquiries on this or other Paradox Interactive titles, please e-mail pr@paradoxplaza.com.
Meet Paradox Interactive in Exhibition Hall 3 – A02 to find out more about this game.
About Paradox development
The experienced development team has released more than 20 titles, including multiple award winning titles like Hearts of Iron 2, uropa Universalis II, Europa Universalis III. The next project, Hearts of Iron 3 is said to be the teams biggest production to date. |
all i can say is
WOHOOOOO! 
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| Posted: Fri, 22nd Aug 2008 12:17 Post subject: |
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Sweet , I still play Hearts of Iron 2 quite often.
Per Ardua Ad Astra
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Ispep
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| Posted: Fri, 22nd Aug 2008 12:22 Post subject: |
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"I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it.... ooOooOoOoo...." music to my ears. I'm hoping they don't fuck it up, but no point hiding my excitement at the announcement. I've lost whole nights & mornings to those games...
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| Posted: Fri, 22nd Aug 2008 16:19 Post subject: |
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Excellent. Hope they can put a Victoria spin on it and put some more focus on economy management and such, not just war.
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Surray
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| Posted: Fri, 22nd Aug 2008 17:51 Post subject: |
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Loved HoI and HoI2. I'm sure this will be just as great (and mind boggingly complex)
Likot Mosuskekim, Woodcutter cancels Sleep: Interrupted by Elephant.
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Surray
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| Posted: Fri, 22nd Aug 2008 20:34 Post subject: |
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| tainted4ever wrote: | | Surray wrote: | | Loved HoI and HoI2. I'm sure this will be just as great (and mind boggingly complex) |
Not really. Just make a lot of infantry and crush everything you see. Nothing complex about that :D |
hard enough to find the button to build infantry :-)
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Aug 2008 07:40 Post subject: |
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the previous 2 were awful, unrealistic and full of awful AI/exploits..I managed to make Lithuania back into an empire
(spam build militia, move policy towards a professional army,
and then research army doctrine, invade latvia/estonia/Norway/annex them then attack germany when the polish get invaded, your attack will stall the germany, the french will surround them after a while and then the polish will counter attack, this gives you lots of time to simply walts into the rhine land with your 70 division millitia army)
all of paradoxes games are really disappointing after you figure out just how broken and unbalanced they are, maybe this one will be different and will actually provide some sort of challenge.
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Aug 2008 10:23 Post subject: |
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| anna wrote: | the previous 2 were awful, unrealistic and full of awful AI/exploits..I managed to make Lithuania back into an empire
(spam build militia, move policy towards a professional army,
and then research army doctrine, invade latvia/estonia/Norway/annex them then attack germany when the polish get invaded, your attack will stall the germany, the french will surround them after a while and then the polish will counter attack, this gives you lots of time to simply walts into the rhine land with your 70 division millitia army)
all of paradoxes games are really disappointing after you figure out just how broken and unbalanced they are, maybe this one will be different and will actually provide some sort of challenge. |
Try doing the same with the historical amount of forces Lithuania had back then, and go with the same policies and make the same political decisoins and you'll find out the opposite.
Luckily, Hoi allows you to play (a)historically.
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Ispep
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Aug 2008 11:11 Post subject: |
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For what it's worth they officially point out the games aren't meant to be realistic or historically correct, and AI exploits are unfortunately a staple of games like this. That being said if you know of an exploit and you use it; shame on you. HOI is one of the best games of its kind, and I love it's focus on the war effort first and foremost. If you know of anything better; please tell.
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| Posted: Sat, 23rd Aug 2008 17:07 Post subject: |
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Unrealistic and lots of AI exploits, fine( what would be the fun of choosing a country and not being able to do anything 'unrealistic' with it anyway, though? Half the fun is picking a lesser side and making it great ), but awful?
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| Posted: Wed, 1st Oct 2008 21:40 Post subject: |
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Surray
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| Posted: Tue, 21st Oct 2008 18:01 Post subject: |
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damn those screens look great... I need that game now!
Likot Mosuskekim, Woodcutter cancels Sleep: Interrupted by Elephant.
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Jan 2009 09:42 Post subject: |
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Fantastic screenshots, thanks for posting Cartoon, HoI 2 never left my hd, so greatly anticipating this.
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Ispep
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Jan 2009 11:22 Post subject: |
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I can't wait. I get excited just looking at those screenshots  I just hope their GUI now scales better with higher resolutions, just been playing some EU and it's hard work reading text at 1080p.
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Jan 2009 12:35 Post subject: |
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Mad, these screenshots gives me a raging hard-on.
Hopefully there'll be more domestic matters and issues to take care of this time, honestly, sometimes it get a bit boring to just dick around waiting for the enemy to make his move when playing Soviet, U.S or neutral.
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Jan 2009 14:29 Post subject: |
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Yep, looks awesome. Some more domestic options would be great, that's the reason I think Victoria is the best of these games.
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Feb 2009 03:43 Post subject: |
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please stop with the screenshots i can't take it anymore.
Q3/2009 where art thou?
*on to start another hoi2 hsr game*
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Feb 2009 13:07 Post subject: |
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Cant wait, although it will probably become playable after multiple patches and expansions.
Typical paradox style.
Per Ardua Ad Astra
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 02:17 Post subject: |
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interview
http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/heartsofiron3/interview.html
| Quote: | Strategy Informer: Would you ever consider making a game like this for home consoles or would you feel too restricted by the limitations this would impose?
Johan Andersson: It’s been fifteen years since I last made a console game so I don’t know exactly what the hardware limitations would be. I haven’t thought about it, but I don’t know. PC games still sell insane amounts and considering how much online distribution is increasing sales; it’s easier to continue making PC games. |
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