Hearts of Iron III

[salaminizer]

for the 3 of us that care about the game, it's now on pre-sale on GamersGate for $39.99, with some sort of pre-sale scam as well. apparently, they are including "sprite packs" as pre-sale bonus, 16 tanks, ships and planes sprites for US and 16 for Germany.

it comes out in August 3rd (exactly when my classes start!) and it will compete with Paradox's own East India Company (which I'll have to skip!)

Here:

http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-HOI3/hearts-of-iron-3

To get excited:

Features

• Play as any nation from 1936 to 1948, more than 150 countries to choose from.
• Control the oceans with aircraft carriers, submarines and battleships and use your air force to defend your skies, support your naval and ground forces, and to bomb your enemies
• Thousands of historically accurate real-world military commanders and politicians.
• Realistic military command AI with unprecedented levels of interaction
• In-depth diplomatic and political system.
• Historical accuracy combined with an unparalleled level of freedom of choice
• Customize your divisions in detail with more than 20 types of brigades
• Government-in-exile makes it possible to continue to struggle from abroad with underground movements and uprisings against the oppressing power.
• Strategic warfare system makes it more important to defend the skies and oceans against foreign attacks; leaving cities open to enemy bombing will now be devastating.
• A completely new intelligence system, with several types of intelligence sources, makes it possible to get information about enemy reserves and troop movements.
• Assign troops to “theatres” on the map to fight two-front wars more successfully.
• The new AI system and more detailed map will allow for more strategic decisions.
• Flexible technology system with hundreds of categories, and unlimited research.
• Highly realistic historical order of battles.
• The first realistic logistic system ever in a strategy game.

I highlighted the most important feature IMO. those who play strategy games know how diplomacy is usually a hassle and the player becomes a hostage of the system and the AI players, I hope it's better this time.