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Red Orchestra 2вЂ™s single player campaign is merely a warm up for the gameвЂ™s multiplayer component where the single player campaignвЂ™s realism and authenticity is transplanted into a theater of war populated by human players. The campaign eventually shifts perspectives and puts you in the boots of a Soviet conscript, defending the Motherland against the German invaders. Directing the squad is done through a radial menu from where youвЂ™ll issue orders like defense, rush an objective, fall back and even call in artillery fire. Eventually, youвЂ™ll be given command of a squad grouped into various fire teams that will need to be intelligently led through the war zone. If killed, either by being shot, blown up or bled to death, youвЂ™ll spawn into the body of another member in your unit.

Both sides have a finite number of soldiers available. Taking an objective is all a matter of clearing out a building of enemy soldiers until there are no more soldiers and once an objective is secured, youвЂ™ll move onto the next. The single player campaign starts off with you playing on the side of the German army - which no war shooter IвЂ™ve played has ever done - and the first few levels function as the in-game tutorial in order to get the feel of how combat and capturing objectives play out. Creating a game with this level of realism these days is absolutely insane and ridiculous. Instead, youвЂ™ll spend the majority of combat aiming down your weaponвЂ™s iron sights, which must be manually adjusted in order to reach long range targets as well as mentally track how many shots exist in your gun at any given time. Firing from the hip is possible, but youвЂ™ll never know just how accurate your shots will be. For one, there are no visible cross-hairs to help guide your shots. YouвЂ™re still pointing a gun at people and completing objectives, but immediately youвЂ™ll notice some major differences that separate this from other games. I understand why! With Unreal Engine 3 in hand, Tripwire Interactive has produced a war shooter that is, in many ways, second to none.Д«ased on the German offensive against the Russians during World War II, Red Orchestra 2 is not your typical first person shooter.

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Red Orchestra has an interesting history because it began as a mod for Unreal Tournament 2004 and due to itвЂ™s intense realism and tight focus on tactical combat, it found an audience with an avid PC community.

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While the Call of Duty franchise has been about fast-paced action with simplistic controls, Red Orchestra can be described best as a war simulator because itвЂ™s focus on authentic World War II weaponry is second to none. Historical war games havenвЂ™t disappeared completely, thanks to World at War and Black Ops, but these games pale in comparison to TripwireвЂ™s Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad. Modernizing war games also served to implement new game mechanics that you couldnвЂ™t get away with in historic shooters and by concentrating on an amorphous enemy such as Middle Eastern terrorists, you could make a story go anywhere you wanted.

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However, when Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was unleashed upon a surprised audience, the narrative shifted from historic to Tom Clancy-style modern warfare and considering how well the Modern Warfare series had sold, everybody wanted a piece of the action. War games often looked to World War II for inspiration, pulling from real life missions to replicating sequences from popular war films like A Bridge Too Far and Saving Private Ryan. Ever since EAвЂ™s Medal of Honor, war-themed first person shooters have been one of the most consistent themes for video games within the last fifteen years.

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