RiccD

A lot of wasted potential. Nice graphics cannot hide the missing depth and missing immersion. Game tries to be a lot of things but is falling flat on all of them. - Not enough depth and missing uniqueness on the business sim. Very repetetive - Missions are walking simulators - Missing immersion due to flat conversations and nearly no visual character movement. I cut off a finger of a person in the middle of the street and other ppl are just walking by - and the other person just stands there with no reaaction says "aaah" -" anyway - I will leave now"? Really? I even cannot see that my Character is doing something. It's just in the dialogue. - To few building types - First three fights are fun then it's just repetetive. No auto-resolve. - Totally unbalanced boss abilities - Missing feeling of the roaring twenties. My boss is driving Taxi? Really? No Damsel in Distress? There are so many movies to get inspired by. Again as nice as the visuals are - everything else falls flat, and I really doubt that it can be fixed even with tons of DLC.

Had some hours yesterday. Just wanted to DL and see if I can figure out some things. Ended up late in the night with "WTF why is it so late already" :) Love: - Trade is so much less annoying than in Hoi III - the focus tree - division planner - Spanish Civil war (was pretty tough) - Industrial part - Political Power thing - add supporters and stuff Undecided: - The Border / Plan klicky thing. I fail by fiddling around with that very often. Maybe I have to get used to it / maybe patches will improve this part ( If I attach an army to a border and add a Div. later - why do I have to order this division to this border?) - Tech trees. Still am undecided about that. - In combat I am usually the more microing type. So I do not know if I like the battle plans yet (Missing the bonus). Maybe I will continue microing the Mobile Divs and leave the foot inf to the battle planner. Not so good: - AI did strange things in the civil war. (Just walked around long time with inf div, not doing anything. ) - if I change directions from an attack with a fully organized tank div. and run in an enemy Inf div with 5% Org that takes the province I am moving to a second before I arrive I really lose this tank Div as "Overrun" ??? Seriously? Summary: Great game that makes already lots of fun. Will get better with the next few patches, I am sure. Also there will be more depth in future with DLC.

Amazin game. Runs very smooth. Plays like a 4x in the beginning and switches over to a grand strategy game in mid/late game. No crashes or serious bugs so far on day 1 (for me) Would strongly recommend if you like the genre(s)

Awesome game and nicely done. Makes fun so far, although I made some mistakes in my first games. Restarted and planned ahead. Will probably spend many hours with train fever. Hoping also for mods and updates though. No MP does not bother me personally, but might bother some other potential buyers.