In Search of something new.

[CaptainMattJ.]

been trying some things out lately.

As of late ive tried out Hearts of Iron 3 and Men of War.

Hearts of Iron3 has turned out to be a great game, and i will continue to play it.

But men of war has turned out to be another "low-replayability" game similiar to World in Conflict. Its a good game, fun while it lasts, but it has little replayability, and alot of frustrating qualities like the annoying 1 shot kills the enemy tanks get through your superior tank's frontal aromor, for instance, the many times ive lost a panzer III Ausf F to an armored car THROUGH THE FRONTAL ARMOR. Tank warfare is a really quite ridiculous in that game, and while it was fun, it was very frustrating. The enemy AI was making impossible shots while my men would simply NOT through an AT grenade when i tell them to, and subsequently get hosed down. without firing a shot.


So, now ,im looking for something different. I was looking at IL-2 Sturmovik, but im afraid it will be like Heroes over europe, unplayable without a joystick. Is this the case? can anyone name off some games that are similar to Hearts of iron 3, or any good action naval games? Despite the obvious FPS type shoot em up gameplay in Battlestations pacific with little tactics/strategy involved, i liked the game for its somewhat originality, being that there are very few games that offer such wide scale combat experience. I also love Empire total war. Im a big RTS/TBS fanatic, and i love playing games taking place from the 17th-mid 20th century. Actually anything you might want to suggest, FPS, TBS, RTS, DCS, assuming it doesnt REQUIRE a joystick to play effectively. H.A.W.X 2 was somewhat interesting, seeing as how i got it for free when i bought my GTS 450, and it didnt require a joystick to fly the plane effectively, unlike Heroes over europe.



Ive been looking around the forums for a bit, of course, but there are many, many games ive never heard of that deserve some attention, such as, ive never heard of Hearts of iron 3 until i started looking at some threads. Flight Sims have always been tricky, ive played for hours trying to figure out how to take off in Flight Sim 2000, and crashed soon after. So perhaps anything super hardcore would be a bit out of my skill sets.