OXCGN’s Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm Preview

Tripwire’s Death Simulator Expands

by Nicholas Laborde

©2013 Nicholas Laborde

A little over a year and a half ago, Tripwire Interactive released the second entry in their Red Orchestra franchise, Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad.

As I so eloquently described it, Tripwire’s shooter was the world’s most realistic simulation of dying in a combat zone, providing players with a brutal yet refined interpretation of a World War Two shooter.

Since its release, Tripwire has consistently supported the game with patches and tweaks, even adding a game mode that plays a little more like “regular” shooters (see: less death, because dying ALL the time simply isn’t good).

Now, the first official expansion, Rising Storm, is in beta, and we’ve had extensive hands-on with the game.

I can, in fact, confirm that it usurps Heroes of Stalingrad as the most realistic simulation of dying in a combat zone, because the amount of ways you can die has been increased tenfold.

Death simulation this way!

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