Red Orchestra 2 Game Guide

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad is one of many new games on display at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, and in one of our many sorties to the show floor, we took the opportunity to see the game in action. Red Orchestra 2 will launch with 10 different maps, four difficulty settings, and two new vehicles: the T-34 medium tank and the Panzer IV medium tank. Red Orchestra 2 will ship with three different game modes: Territories, the previous game's control-point-capture mode (not unlike the original Conquest mode from the Battlefield series), which makes its return from the first game; Firefight, essentially a team deathmatch mode intended to draw in new players (realism settings can actually be relaxed); and Countdown, which is essentially a modified version of Territories that still challenges teams to move on a single series of progressive objectives but gives players only one life to live until their team reaches the next objective. Like with the original game, Red Orchestra will otherwise continue to focus on highly realistic shooter gameplay. The game will ship later this year.