From Strategyinformer.com: "I loved Hearts of Iron III. It was a bit bloated, a bit deterministic and not everything always worked, but it was a WW2 wargame and I’m a wargamer at heart. Now, Imagine Hearts of Iron, but set in the post WW2/Cold War era, and it’s still got all of its wargame elements but it’s also got highly robust economic, political and diplomatic elements as well - like Europa Universalis, Victoria and Hearts of Iron rolled into one big nuclear package. Say hello to East vs. West, a spin-off project from the same guys who brought you Arsenal of Democracy. This game takes you from the turmoil of the post war era in 1946 all the way to the official fall of the Soviet Union in 1991".
Paradox Interactive have made a decision as publisher of BL Logic's East vs West to cancel the game. It had already been "severly delayed" and an open beta / early access still wouldn't have 'met certain criteria'.
The actual decision to cancel is 'fresh' and we're being told "pretty much immediately." As it uses the Clausewitz engine they can't release source code to the community.
GRTV caught up with East vs. West's game designer Gellert Ferenc Keresztes to learn more about how the Cold War strategy game is taking shape.
It's a staring competition between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in East vs. West: A Hearts of Iron Game, which grants us an 'expanded toolset' to deal with the rest of the world plunged into Cold War.
The vanilla Hearts of Iron III "only really had depth" through its military, says Gellert Keresztes, whereas East vs. West draws a lot upon national politics and espionage.
