There’s even an option to have to manually chamber a new round on a bolt-action rifle. Capable of being run on 64-player servers, using both tanks and class-based infantry and a level of detail that we’re only used to seeing in the Arma series, it’s a realistic shooter where a single shot to the chest can kill. It’s a humanising snap from firing bullets at an almost faceless enemy to a realisation of: ‘What the hell are we doing?’ It’s a feature in Red Orchestra 2.Īs anyone who played Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 (the original) will know, Red Orchestra 2 is a multiplayer WWII shooter set on the Eastern Front, rather that the vastly more commonly visited war in Europe.

Nobody can do anything but watch him die and, as he struggles to take his last breath, nobody even has time to reassure him and lie that everything will be okay. Hearing a man screaming for his mother as he bleeds out on the floor, his vision slowly fading to black and his crumpled body unable to move is, we don’t doubt, one of the true horrors of war.

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad Publisher: Tripwire Interactive

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