In Rising Storm 2, individual rounds scream straight down on top of you and erupt with a deafening roar. It adds modern rifles like the AK-47 and the M-16 as well as rotor-wing air support like the AH-1 Cobra.Īrtillery strikes are a specialty for this series, and being trapped in one is a terrifying experience. Rising Storm 2: Vietnam riffs on that formula, stealing the best features of that landscape and moving the fight to Vietnam. Marines against Imperial Japan in an island-hopping slugfest. That upgrade shifted the game’s setting to the Pacific theater of WWII, and pit period U.S. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad followed in 2011, only to receive an upgrade called Rising Storm. The game eventually moved to Unreal Engine 3.0 and was released on Steam in 2006 as Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45.
The series began as Red Orchestra, a total conversion for Unreal Tournament 2003 set on World War II’s Eastern Front.
The game has a somewhat confusing history. Without a decent commander leading your side, expect to be utterly destroyed. Like its predecessors, it is an absolutely brutal experience that demands teamwork. Rising Storm 2: Vietnam unlocked on Steam yesterday afternoon, and since then I’ve been putting some quality time into the game.
