I can’t help but feel that loading an earlier save would be easier. They have talked though about how you can essentially ‘reset’ the game by causing everyone to wipe each other out and then rebuilding from there. We haven’t been told explicitly what happens when the clock ticks noon, but we imagine it can’t be good. The state of the game influences the clock, with it either ticking closer or away from ‘Midnight’. Obviously the prevalent theme of nuclear war permeates the game – the Doomsday Clock, a visual representation of the papers Einstein and Oppenheimer would publish commenting on how close humanity was to destroying itself - is forever on display for you to see. Spanning a whopping 45 years (which is ‘whopping’ because the game ticks through at hourly intervals, which was for the 37’-45’ timeframe of the vanilla game), you get to pick any country in the world and guide it through one of the most tense periods in human history. This is more than an update of Arsenal of Democracy though – for starters the time frame is significantly different.
This game takes you from the turmoil of the post war era in 1946 all the way to the official fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. West, a spin-off project from the same guys who brought you Arsenal of Democracy. Now, Imagine Hearts of Iron, but set in the post WW2/Cold War era, and it’s still got all of its wargame elements but it’s also got highly robust economic, political and diplomatic elements as well - like Europa Universalis, Victoria and Hearts of Iron rolled into one big nuclear package.
It was a bit bloated, a bit deterministic and not everything always worked, but it was a WW2 wargame and I’m a wargamer at heart. Check it out below.Įast vs West lets you play as any nation in the decades encompassing the conflict, where you take part in activities such as the arms race, nuclear armament, guerrilla warfare, diplomacy, confronting the UN Security Council and of course, handling that wonderful ticking of the Doomsday Clock.I loved Hearts of Iron III.
The first of these – an introduction to the game by project lead Lennart Berg titled “Controlling the Cold War” – is already up and deserves a look, if only to understand the challenges in creating a game of this magnitude and what the team wishes to achieve with the experience. Paradox Development Studio and BL-Logic are looking capture that tone with East vs West: A Hearts of Iron Game, and have announced a series of developer diaries outlining how they’re going to go about it. The game of cloaks and daggers was never more apparent than during the Cold War age when the USSR and NATO were at a venerable stand-off. Something secretive this way walks, and the war seems to follow.
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