Altern8 writes: "There are serious strategy games, and then there's Hearts of Iron. I suppose if strategy games were to go in tiers of momentousness and scale, we'd have the twee turn-based likes of Valkyrie Chronicles and Advance Wars at the bottom. Wedged in the middle would be the real-time series such as Command & Conquer, Dawn of War and countless others. The Hearts of Iron series lofts above these like some grandiose zeppelin. It's an example of the relatively rare "grand strategy" subgenre, wherein you don't control miniature men on the battlefield but direct entire nations."
GameGrin's Alex Hamilton writes: "There wasn’t much I could do to save Poland. To be honest there wasn’t much I wanted to do to save Poland. There was simply no way of me getting there in time to stop the German invasion. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself as I watch the ever-growing cloud of dust across the border."
There are certain inalienable truths in this world: music will get worse as you get older, politicians will lie all the time and Hitler will always invade Poland.
Continue Play's Noah Ellis suggests 5 games focusing on one of the lesser known areas of the Second World War, the vast Eastern Front.
