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Experience the true scale of a world war, the best in its class, Paradox style.

<span class="bold">Hearts of Iron III</span> the deepest and most accessible World War II simulation yet, is available now, DRM-free on GOG.com at a 75% discount when you get it with the Complete DLC Collection in one purchase, or 66% off on its own.





Few would bat an eye if you tried calling the Hearts of Iron series a straight up World War II simulator, these are the few games that would never be out of place in any modern classroom. But for all the irreplicable, massive depth and scale there's a long list of gamers who fell trying to break through the iron curtain of a learning curve.

That's where Hearts of Iron III comes in. It's the sequel that focuses on really streamlining the miles deep simulation and flattening the learning curve to truly become the best and most accessible in its class.

None of this is to say that there's less content here, or that the series sacrificed anything in an appeal to the masses. Hearts of Iron III still takes a time investment, and it's still in a league of its own with mindblowing scale and depth: governments are simulated in detail from heads-of-state through cabinet members and generals (each with their own personality that you can use for your own means, else they be used against you), there are tens of hundreds controllable provinces, a sophisticated war economy, tons of scenarios, and more strategic and tactical possibilities than you could ever shake your sharpened, warmongering stick at.

For a more expansive experience, you can also pick up the <span class="bold">Hearts of Iron III DLC Collection</span>, featuring every bit of bonus content released to date - all at 75% off.





The bottom line is, <span class="bold">Hearts of Iron III</span> is as close as it gets to wrapping a hardcore simulation in a fun, one of a kind video game. It's also available now, DRM-free on GOG.com with a hefty 75% discount alongside its DLC Collection! The launch promo will last until Tuesday, August 4, 12:59 PM GMT.
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HijacK: Since Hearts of Iron 3 got released, I'm going to assume there won't be a release for the second one as well. Do people miss something if they skip the second and go from the first straight to the third?
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Grargar: You mean this? :P
No, no, he means THIS :P
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JudasIscariot: No, no, he means THIS :P
You're not supposed to be my echo. :P
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JudasIscariot: No, no, he means THIS :P
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Grargar: You're not supposed to be my echo. :P
You're not supposed to ninja me :P
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JudasIscariot: You're not supposed to ninja me :P
I don't discriminate. I ninja everyone! :D
And to think i was able to resist the cities in motion launch discount just afew days ago. I should have known gog and Paradox would throw a curve ball at me.
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bioshark: WoW. One on of the best grand strategy games of all times. I already own this game on Steam, so I don't think I'll be picking it up here since the Steam one I am still playing from time to time.

Would be great if we would know upfront if HOI4 will also be released on Gog. This is definitely the place to own games, but I am not really a fan of owning a game twice...

cheers and keep up the good work.

SPACEbar :)
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kamikaze26: Can I switch screens. tables and make orders?
Also interested in that.

If it's pausable (and can switch screens. tables and make orders while paused) it may be instabuy for me.

Otherwise, Wishlist and think about it..


Anyone know?
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HijacK: Since Hearts of Iron 3 got released, I'm going to assume there won't be a release for the second one as well. Do people miss something if they skip the second and go from the first straight to the third?
Second and third game are worlds apart in playstyle. Second game (HoI2) is basically an improvement of the first game. Its a more simple Hearts of Iron game that allows you to control everything by yourself while HOI 3 brings everything up to the level of army management with headquarters and AI commanders that attack depending on your command. It is a lot more complicated game then HoI 2. Research is not as transparent or understandable as in HoI 2. It does give you a lot more automation though in every possible task from production, research, spying, etc. HoI 3 was not recepted very good by players by being very different to previous HoI games. As you already know by now HoI 2 is available on gog for some time now :)

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Martek: If it's pausable (and can switch screens. tables and make orders while paused) it may be instabuy for me.

Otherwise, Wishlist and think about it..

Anyone know?
Yes you can pause the game and give orders in every section (production, research, spying, diplomacy, politics, army management, etc.). You can basically do whatever you wan't while paused and you can pause whenever you wan't. This is a feature available in more or less every Paradox game.
Post edited July 30, 2015 by Matruchus
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HijacK: Since Hearts of Iron 3 got released, I'm going to assume there won't be a release for the second one as well. Do people miss something if they skip the second and go from the first straight to the third?
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Grargar: You mean this? :P
The hell? The game did not appear in the search function! O_O Must have been a bug or something. Never mind. I look like a fool now.
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Matruchus: snip
I see. Thank you for the info. As for the game, I searched for it using the search function but it did not appear.... or I did not notice it. One of the two. But For a few minutes I lived under the impression it was not on GOG.
Post edited July 30, 2015 by HijacK
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Martek: If it's pausable (and can switch screens. tables and make orders while paused) it may be instabuy for me.

Otherwise, Wishlist and think about it..

Anyone know?
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Matruchus: Yes you can pause the game and give orders in every section (production, research, spying, diplomacy, politics, army management, etc.). You can basically do whatever you wan't while paused and you can pause whenever you wan't. This is a feature available in more or less every Paradox game.
Excellent!

Thanks :)
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yyahoo: So we've got HOI3 now, so when is Revenant coming?
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Grargar: There is an unidentified (as of yet) release stream tomorrow, so probably then.
That would be cool. It'd be odd getting a "classic" release on a day other than Tuesday or Thursday, but it wouldn't be the first here recently...
Post edited July 31, 2015 by yyahoo
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yyahoo: That would be cool. It'd be odd getting a "classic" release on a day other than Tuesday or Thursday, but it wouldn't be the first here recently...
Yup. After all, the three Ubisoft classics were released on a Wednesday. Plus, Cyberia 2 was actually released on a Friday.
Post edited July 31, 2015 by Grargar
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yyahoo: That would be cool. It'd be odd getting a "classic" release on a day other than Tuesday or Thursday, but it wouldn't be the first here recently...
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Grargar: Yup. After all, the three Ubisoft classics were released on a Wednesday. Plus, Cyberia 2 was actually released on a Friday.
Depending on your definition of "classic" you could also include Venom: Codename Outbreak and the batch of Paradox and 1C games that came out in mid April (Faces of War, EU2, HOI2, etc). GOG's descending into release day anarchy... and I like it. :)
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bioshark: WoW. One on of the best grand strategy games of all times. I already own this game on Steam, so I don't think I'll be picking it up here since the Steam one I am still playing from time to time.

Would be great if we would know upfront if HOI4 will also be released on Gog. This is definitely the place to own games, but I am not really a fan of owning a game twice...
Ditto. There's been quite a few games that released late on GOG after I had already bought them from Steam that I didn't re-purchase. I do own a number of duplicates just to support GOG, but would've preferred to own them just on GOG. Frankly, I can't go around tossing my money on every game I like that I already own on Steam just because it gets released on GOG somewhere down the line - as much as I would like to.

Basically I hope GOG will become large enough name to secure day-one releases for lots of new titles (*cough* Bannerlord *cough*).
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GOG.com: Few would bat an eye if you tried calling the Hearts of Iron series a straight up World War II simulator, these are the few games that would never be out of place in any modern classroom. But for all the irreplicable, massive depth and scale there's a long list of gamers who fell trying to break through the iron curtain of a learning curve.

That's where Hearts of Iron III comes in. It's the sequel that focuses on really streamlining the miles deep simulation and flattening the learning curve to truly become the best and most accessible in its class.
Lol! I just read this. That's somewhat crazy telling people HOI 3 is the easiest in their line of games. lol It's definitely way harder than HOI 2 and the HOI series is more complex than CK or EU. The supply system alone in HOI 3 is enough to screw up any major campaigns if you're not careful or didn't plan the attack properly. I had 100K Australian soldiers starve in Vietnam/Cambodia region because of the shitty supply hubs there and I had to give up the campaign and I was happily defeating the Japanese in that area before the soldiers all ran out of food and bullets.
Post edited July 31, 2015 by cw8
I wish I was better in strategy games. I would play panzer general 2 and this.