Kotaku: We've quietly been fans of Tripwire's Red Orchestra mods/games for years now. But three years on from the release of Ostfront 41-45, the game is showing its age. Time, then, for a sequel!
Ahead of a cover-blowing announcement in this month's PC Gamer - which appears to have caught the devs off-guard - Tripwire have announced Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad, a full-blown sequel to Ostfront that will be built using the Unreal Engine 3.
Today I would like to show off the Baikal shotgun, which you saw in render form during my last communication in action.
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad takes place in and around the titular Russian city as Germany and Russia fight for control. The campaign is divided into two chapters, wherein players first take the side of the Germans for twelve missions, and then switch to the Russians for a further twelve. It may sound like a generous slice of single-player gameplay, but in truth it’s really just training for the multiplayer game modes.
Congratulations, you are inside a tank. Your very own Panzer IV or a T-34. Now you can drive through the ruins of Stalingrad and bring about the destruction of your enemies, main gun and machine guns blazing! You will run over enemy positions, forcing entire companies to flee from you, allowing your team to advance to victory, or hold back the Red/Fascist horde thanks to your indestructible steel plating and precise gun. Now, that we are done with this Fantasy, let us jump to the facts.
