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• gamedeal user

  Feb 16, 2022

  Wow. Just wow. This is the best strategy game that I have ever encountered. It is chess on steroids, in the gym, bench pressing 500 lbs with one arm. Unless you buy the game, you will never understand the level of detail that has gone into the game play. The levels of realism and choices on every level are unmatched. Just the effort that has gone into the depth of historical reference of weapons, leaders, insignias, gameplay with weather, terrain, infrastructure use and repair (railroads, airbases, logistsics) is stunning. My mind is completely blown and I will never look at another strategy or grand strategy game the same way again. In fact there is too much data available should you want to really dive into it. However, it is not necessary to the game play. When I fell in love with Hearts of Iron IV, I thought she was the only gal for me. Wow. HOI is like being in love with the girl next door at 9 yrs old versus dating a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader at 23--a completely different experience! (apologies to Dallas haters) WITE2 is a Michael Angelo work of art. For years, I saw that this game was around (at this time, WITE1). The list price was $80. THAT WAS SCARY! $80. Never even considered buying it. Which just goes to show you what a member of the masses I was. (Hey! I bought Kia to get me around town. Why would I lay down twice or three times the money for a Mercedes? Doing just fine. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.) Oh pitiful you. Never to experience the high end luxury car once in your life. But hey, it's your call! My advice? Take a second job. 2nd house mortgage, get the rest from your Aunt Hilda, anything short of bank robbery to acquire this title! Let's talk about the complexity and depth of the game for a bit. After all, the manual is 502 pages--yeah, this is no typo. I was petrified. However, and listen to me good: Playing this is more approachable than I thought it would be. This was surprising. I mean, you didn't jump out of your cradle and sprint a 100 yard dash, did ya? You've been crawling around or even stumble-walking with other mere mortal strategy games, right? You can easily start walking or jogging with this beauty very quickly. The tutorial is pretty good. The learning curve is inclined but not super steep and can be eased into with features such as AI Air power and AI logistical depot handling. Everything make sense in a real world setting. e.g. when rain falls, the roads get muddy and movement points are lost. Not rocket science. I looked at the manual when a game play issue arose. I found out what the heck was going on for this issue but found myself scanning the manual as a whole at random afterwards. Dozens of times I have found myself in awe discovering a new aspect of the game that incorporates just unbelievable realism and genius design. Your mouth will drop open multiple, multiple times at the cool factor. Dudes! The units are upgraded with more modern weapons as the years go by within history should you choose to refit them--and you will need to. This is the Eastern Front! An all out bloody dog fight!! Playing the AI on a normal level is a good challenge. Higher settings are very challenging. I can't imagine playing against a fellow gamer! Tension builds as you go deeper into Russia and your need to keep the offensive going increases with depleted units. Haven't tried the Russian side yet. I haven't yet unchained the automatic handling of the air power by the computer nor the logistical supply depots and I am perfectly happy! Something else to attain when I want to scratch that itch with more ferocity. That's about it. Pricey but long term affordable. Complex but baby step building up to complex with huge rewards. Inexhaustible replay value. ONCE YOU GO EAST, ALL OTHER STRATEGY GAMES WILL CEASE! You have been warned!
• gamedeal user

  Jun 28, 2022

  War in the East 2 is very much the same game as War in the East 1, only there are finally enough quality-of-life and UI improvements to make the game playable for those of us who don't enjoy making spreadsheets in our free time. In other words, if you're interested in the subject matter and finally feel ready to take the plunge into overly complicated massive wargames, you should check this one out. If this is your first experience with the franchise, expect a very steep learning curve.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 17, 2021

  I cannot in good consciousness support this game. I like Matrix Games and want to support but they've really messed this game up from prior version in 2 ways. 1) Air War - the UI is atrocious. Terrible, hard to do unless you do AI Assist. 2) Supply depots take forever to setup and manage unless you use AI Depots. Both AIs don't really do the job well. Doing is manually is a nightmare of time and fetishized complexity. The rest of the game flows very well and easy to do. Sad they couldn't the same with Air and Supply.
• gamedeal user

  May 30, 2023

  Good, but with reservations. This is definitely the ultimate grand-strategy game on the Eastern Front one can find-but it's got some major quality-of-life problems that make playing it sort of irritating. The user interface is very complicated and both intentionally and unintentionally obscures details that are easier to discern in most other chit-strategy games. Two of the game's most interesting mechanics, the air management phase and Theatre Boxes respectively-are marred by unclear rules and feedback. Units that complete theatre transfers are easy to forget-since the transfers can take very long (4 turns for North Africa). The air management system in theory operates in two modes, automatic and manual. In practice however automatic mode is still more like a semi-automatic mode. The user-interface does not alter its appearance for play in either mode too-so it's unclear what selections will stick in automatic mode, what kind of granularity is limited to manual control etc. The game is technically unstable as well and when crunching turns-the program can easily seize and require a hard reset. Wisely there is an auto-save system but it's still unclear why the game is so laborious about running it's calculations. Yet flipping unit statuses and moving air fleets around always earns a short pause. Will moving Kampfgeschwader 52 to the Leningrad Front save the Soviet Union by software fiat? The game does not gameplay or balance preferences between saves-so use extreme caution when reloading games at previous junctures. It is fairly common to find things like the HQ support lock and AI Air Assist selectors in the wrong position leading to the loss of a turn and a save-reload. On top of that there needs to be an easier way to kick support units up to the common pool because especially for Axis careful and energetic use of your precious specialist units (engineers, tank brigades, corp artillery etc) is their entire meta. I've had to save-reload a lot of times because for some reason the box was unchecked and it caused a big organizational mess. The game's user interface issues are unfortunately a consequence of the designer's attachment to the dated Avalon Hill grand strategy chit games of the 1970s and in this sense GG isn't unique. It's unfortunate because there's really no need to burry so many details behind so many screens anymore-let alone for the game to be as unstable as it is. As far as an Eastern Front Calculator goes-you won't find anything more detailed than Gary's stuff but the industry's attachment to dated design philosophies (seriously why do we even use hex grids anymore?) is tiring.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 29, 2022

  This is a university-level classroom. Bring your books, pencil and paper, and your laptop with access to the internet. You're here to learn history, and don't expect this class to be an easy grade. To get a good grade you'll have to study and comprehend the lessons as we learn our way across the historical map of World War II's Eastern Front. Games such as War in the East 2 hit the entertainment apogee I enjoy most: simulation coupled with education. Detail enfolded into more detail, the brain exercised by the movement and cognition of history. A month ago I finally purchased it after waiting since December last year, and it's one of the most enjoyable games I've played. It is incredibly fun! When as a child in school learning history, and later after more than ten years of university, my desire to continue to educate myself became even more italicized. This was many years ago and I've kept up my studies independently. WitE2 feels like going back to those years in college in this regard; like taking another class in History. I've already ordered a few books that have been referenced in the game, and searched for other external references, as well. As an important side note, a few other reviewers have stated correctly that WitE 2 allows for Newbies (Freshmen) to comprehend the initial mechanics easily, therefore an intuitive symbiosis of learning as you go. There's a large latitude between educating yourself and playing it as such, or playing solely as a game with minimal book reading. YouTube videos can be indispensable for that reason, however, no matter the level you may play the game studying and comprehension is a much higher necessity than it is for the common rabble of video games. Lastly, don't allow the price tag (although, it's wiser to get it on sale to save money) or the depth and detail to deter you from purchasing and learning to play it. If you have the desire for (WWII) history, a legitimate degree of intelligence, patience, diligence, and ultimately, the time, I personally can't recommend WitE2 more highly.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 14, 2022

  This is about as hardcore as you can get for war games at the moment, if you too enjoy having over a dozen turns of pure one sided combat end in your troops being trapped by the Russian winter, weakened by over-strained supply lines, while an endless army of Soviets bites into every remaining bit of hope you have left, then you too will enjoy this masterpiece.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 23, 2022

  Play this instead of HOI4.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 26, 2022

  I started playing Gary Grigsby's games back in 1982 with Second Front on an Amiga 500, it was a great game. Then the game was upgraded to War in Russia, which was a good upgrade even though they removed some of the things that made the game so much fun. Then came War in the East which was good for what it was, once again it removed a lot of the fun things the players could do, like change in equipment in units and factories. I was looking forward to War in the East 2. Read a lot about it..sounded good. I have played 4 turns and I am very disappointed. Some things have been made too complicated and I don't know what they did with the AI. I am playing easy for my first time and by turn 4 the Russians are already recovered and their units are as strong or stronger than my German units. Anyone that knows about the Eastern Front in World War 2 knows the Russians did not recover in 4 weeks. There are Russian Rifle Divisions stronger than my Panzer Divisions..what were you guys thinking. I am going to continue to try to make sense of this..but I am disappointed..thee are too many things that are also difficult to access and use..like the Territorial Boxes..good idea...but does not work well...at least so far....I can only hope for the price it gets better. If the Russians were like the AI in this games the Germans never would have gotten to the outskirks of Moscow or Leningrad.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 23, 2022

  This is HOI 4 for adults
• gamedeal user

  Jan 28, 2022

  Awesomely detailed model of the eastern front in WW2. If you are not sure what to do check out Strategy Gaming Dojo on Youtube,