Includes over 80 nations and 800+ regions. Each nation is given detailed characteristics built on extensive research, including economic and military strengths, diplomatic relations, ideology, and technical advancement. Each region features terrain, infrastructure, resource production and more.

Devise strategies based on your nation's historic strengths and weaknesses– and those of the world's other nations. Play as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the USSR, the United States, or China.

Player's console provides one-click access to all critical information and actions. Play on the 3D world map with beautifully detailed city, military, and other models.

Take many approaches to engagements from massive assaults to holding actions. Supplies, reinforcements and geography all affect your battle plan.

Use unique unit abilities to blitzkrieg with armor, fight attrition battles with hordes of infantry, decimate enemy industry with strategic bombers, and bomb fleets from a distance with a carrier task force. Use Research to unlock more advanced military units, and every unit features a detailed 3D model.

Economic system models the connections between world power and economic strength. Players control trade, aid, industrial development, infrastructure investments, and a deep field of research.

As you make and break alliances, declare war and propose peace, each action affects your relations with other nations, and their willingness to ally with you. If you lack strong allies, you may find other nations are more are more likely to attack.

Innovative simultaneous-turn-based play keeps you in control with no waiting. Play with up to eight others in multiplayer mode, using in-game chat to devise joint strategies and secret pacts.

Start at a crucial historic moment, focus on a specific event, or play the whole war. Scenarios cover the fall of France, Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion of Europe, the Sudeten crisis and more, and each is based on detailed research.

Each scenario drops you into a different firestorm. Each nation you play presents unique challenges. Everything evolves from your economic and military choices, the alliances you make, and the actions and reactions of the world's other nations.

Pursue victory for your Nation, your Alliance, or your Ideology (Democracy, Communism, Fascism, or Authoritarianism.)

Use included Scenario Editor to modify scenarios or create your own.

Save complete reports of a game session to share on the web, analyze strategies and results.