Hearts of Iron III
Hearts of Iron III: Their Finest Hour puts you back in the commander’s seat during World War II. Win the war with new units, strategies and enhanced game modes. Destroy your enemies from within with an…
Hearts of Iron III is a real time strategy (rts) developed by Paradox Interactive, released 7 August 2009 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Hearts of Iron III is
Hearts of Iron III is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Paradox Interactive and released in 2009. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Hearts of Iron is a 2002 grand strategy video game developed by Paradox Development Studio and originally published by Strategy First for Microsoft Windows. A Mac OS X version was released by Virtual Programming the following year. In 2004, Atari SA published Hearts of Iron: Platinum, an updated version that sought to improve several aspects of the game.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Hearts of Iron III holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 63% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium IV 2.4 GHz or AMD 3500+, 2 GB of RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 8800 or ATI Radeon X1900 videocard. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Hearts of Iron III launched on 7 August 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, Wii Sports Resort, Wolfenstein and Metroid Prime: Trilogy. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Wii Sports Resort, Wolfenstein, Metroid Prime: Trilogy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Hearts of Iron III yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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