Paradox Interactive games

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I would love a Cold War type game, where it has a focus on building alliances and fighting proxy wars and financing rebellions, and trying not to blow up the world.

I would like this

 

[ComradeDavo]

Cold war would indeed be good. Have the game set 1945 to 2000!

 

[GoodGame]

Ok I bought Victoria, based on finding the EU 3 demo to be too much like a glorified RTS version of Risk. Now I'm finding Victoria way under-explained and the popup window interface and province clicking is way too much micromanagement, way more than Civ has ever been accused of. The game play does give me ideas for moding Civ4 though. What's the best way to play Victoria?

 

[RedRalph]

Specifically, one that picks up at the end of EU3, and goes to 2030 (or further).

Exactly. I'm new to EU3 but blown away by the game, and would love to see somethign spanning from Napoleon to nowadays (and beyond). No reason to think it wont be something like this.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Ok I bought Victoria, based on finding the EU 3 demo to be too much like a glorified RTS version of Risk. Now I'm finding Victoria way under-explained and the popup window interface and province clicking is way too much micromanagement, way more than Civ has ever been accused of. The game play does give me ideas for moding Civ4 though. What's the best way to play Victoria?

Take some small nation, that also colonizes, like Belgium or Netherlands. That way you'll get the good parts of big nations(big land areas in Africa) and the good sides of small nations(not much micromanagement). Another option is to load Victoria Improvement Project, start with British India and rampage through Asia.

 

[Metromonkey]

So Paradox announced a new game.

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.

For comparison Hearts of Iron 2 had 2600 provinces including sea zones.

 

[Evie]

It's christmas in august :-D

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Another HoI? I had my hopes up for something really awesome!

 

[Metromonkey]

I'm guessing Vicky 2?

 

[Darth_Pugwash]

I liked HoI 2, though the AI was pretty poor, so I will keep an eye on this, but I don't know if I will buy it. I just can't muster any enthusiasm for that ugly 3D engine Paradox have insisted on using of late.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

For comparison Hearts of Iron 2 had 2600 provinces including sea zones.

Awesome. I always loved how many provinces Vicky had. Though, 10,000 is still alot more than Vicky.

 

[Tycoon101]

My brain nearly exploded when I tried to visualize these 10,000+ provinces. It almost seems assured that some sort of Vicky-style system will be in place for factory management.

 

[Evie]

Not almost - Johan already confirmed it over on the Pdox boards. Factory management will be at the region level, where a region is a group of provinces.

 

[Maniacal]

I hope you can you can automate parts of the economy and factory stuff, because I hate micromanaging economies, I prefer the war aspect.

 

[LordKestrel]

I can just imagine how slow this is going to run in the late game. Should be fun at least

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

So I have until Q3 2009 to wrap up my HoI2 AAR's? Neat.

Still might have preferred Vicky 2 (just so they can perfect the engine) but I think this was always more likely. 10'000 provinces sounds fairly epic though.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

So I have until Q3 2009 to wrap up my HoI2 AAR's? Neat.

Still might have preferred Vicky 2 (just so they can perfect the engine) but I think this was always more likely. 10'000 provinces sounds fairly epic though.

Just imagine playing as Andorra or Danzig.

Though I would imagine this now means Goa is Portuguese again, as well as many smaller islands in the Caribbean and South Pacific.

 

[ComradeDavo]

Sweeeeeeet

 

[ArneHD]

I had my hopes for Victoria 2, but oh well.

 

[Naval Power]

Damn, I was really really hoping for Vicky 2, HOI3 will be excellent though. I really wish I could remember my GamersGate info so I could reinstall Vicky, my hard drive recently failed and I can't remember the information I used.