Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad

Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad :

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad is an upcoming WWII themed first-person shooter video game developed and published by Tripwire Interactive. It is a sequel to Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. The title will focus heavily on the Battle of Stalingrad.The game is set to be released on 30 August 2011. The developers have stated that the game will be a PC exclusive and have no plans to bring it to the consoles. The game will contain many new features including a new first person cover system combined with blind firing, first person collision detection as well as an entire new system of statistics tracking and enabling player development.

Gameplay

Red Orchestra 2 is a first person shooter with realistic gameplay elements. Guns behave realistically, with bullet drop and spin taken into account. The game also lacks a traditional HUD, forcing players to manually check or remember how much ammunition they have. 

The game's first person cover system allows players to hide behind objects in the world to avoid gunfire. While in cover players can peek out to take more accurate shots or fire blindly. However the shape, size and composition of the object will change it's effectiveness at protecting the player. Smaller objects may not cover the player's entire body and some may not stop bullets. Health does not regenerate and wounds must be bandaged so more health is not lost by bleeding out.

Tanks will be in Red Orchestra 2, with more vehicles added in after the game's launch. The interiors of each tank are fully recreated with either human or AI controlled characters manning each station. The level of detail was described by Tripwire's president John Gibson as rival or exceeding tank simulation games. 

Because of the extensive work required to recreate each vehicle, which Tripwire estimates to take three months each, the game will launch with two tanks. The German Panzer and Russian T-34. Two more tanks and two troop carriers are in production and are expected to be added to the game shortly after launch.

Development

In June, 2011 Red Orchestra 2's developer Tripwire announced they would be taking an aggressive, three pronged approach to proactively deal with cheating. Red Orchestra 2 would be using a combination of three anti-cheat services; VAC along with Punkbuster and a related service called PBbans. 

Sever operators can choose to use any or none of these services. Tripwire later clarified that punkbuster for Red Orchestra 2 will have three levels of protection so server operators can optionally make punkbuster more or less aggressive in kicking players.

Expansion pack

Tripwire announced an expansion to the game in May, 2010, titled Rising Storm. It will focus on the Pacific campaign of World War II.

Music

Composer Sam Hulick has been chosen to score the game.

Developer(s) Tripwire Interactive

Publisher(s) Tripwire Interactive
1C Company Engine

Enhanced Unreal Engine3

Platform(s) Microsoft Windows

Release date(s) 30 August 2011

Genre(s) First-person Shooter

Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer

 

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