red orchestra 2 heroes of stalingrad single player review

Once you have chosen your class you jump into combat but not before one extremely important selection that is not automatic, squads. You start a multiplayer match by picking your class from regular riflemen, marksmen, squad leaders and even commander as well as tank positions. Running headlong across open areas becomes a race to beat the bullet when enemies can easily pick you off with the assortment of weapons available. Multiplayer is like night and day when compared to the single player campaign, enemies are deadly with shots easily hitting their targets easily at over 200 meters, something like 650 feet. The single player campaign is a great way to learn the dynamics of the game and get the mechanics down to be able to at least not fall flat on your face when first jumping into the multiplayer gaming. You get the idea that Tripwire may not have hired very great level designers and programmers for their AI but I am not going to disparage the people working there for their multiplayer game is much better. The enemies are no better but with guns pointed at you they become a real risk but when stuck behind objects it can be helpful. Jumping into the campaign you are faced with allies that will run right into a hail of gunfire, face the wrong direction and get shot in the back as well as get stuck behind objects to remain rooted. Red Orchestra 2 continues this better gaming but not in the single player gaming area, the single player gaming seems more like a tutorial for better things to come. Tripwire Interactive has continued to release more realistic games and their line of World War II shooters has been almost always better than average gaming. The game is alright for the single player campaign but it turns out to be fantastic when you plug real players on a wide open battlefield with World War II weapons. The game has two major components in the single player campaign and the multiplayer online gaming with the concentration on the online component. It does use the major event of the Battle for Stalingrad as its focus but mainly you battle through either the Axis or Allies on nameless battlefields. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad takes its cue from the title and concentrates solely on the Russian versus German campaign of World War II. Red Orchestra 2 started a couple years ago as a mod to Unreal Tournament and has gone on to become a pretty good overall first person shooter retail game.

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad on the PC is a first person shooter brought to its simplest form but using great gameplay and graphics from the Unreal Tournament Mod. World War II purists can now rejoice in a first person shooter that is simply online multiplayer gaming without all the fancy high tech gadgets.

Red orchestra 2 heroes of stalingrad single player review