Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad

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  1. carnivorCactae
    Nov 30, 2017
    0
    This is maybe the most realistic depiction of War ever!

    You die a lot, you are surrounded by campers, enemies pick you off at choke-points, your allies and enemies feel superior in every way, you die a lot, you start camping by yourself, you survive by pure luck, you devolve into the "skill"-sets of veterans which means you learn the choke-points, and camp, and kill everyone    This is maybe the most realistic depiction of War ever!

    You die a lot,
    you are surrounded by campers,
    enemies pick you off at choke-points,
    your allies and enemies feel superior in every way,
    you die a lot,
    you start camping by yourself,
    you survive by pure luck,
    you devolve into the "skill"-sets of veterans
    which means you learn the choke-points,
    and camp,
    and kill everyone off at the spawnpoint,
    and you die a lot.

    War is not fun,
    neither is this camping- and dying-simulator!

    (still no Coop-Campaign!
    Just huge maps filled with cheating super-aim-bots!)    … Expand
  2. BlackBalsam
    Sep 27, 2014
    4
    The idea of the game is great.
    The weapons look and feel fantastic.
    So do explosions. The sounds and spectacular and the maps LOOK awesome. Too bad the maps are too small for 64p. Too badly designed for a flanking / camping style gameplay and theres too few of them so they get boring in a week. Would be great with more and BIGGER more versatile maps. Either the maps are too    The idea of the game is great.
    The weapons look and feel fantastic.
    So do explosions.
    The sounds and spectacular
    and the maps LOOK awesome.

    Too bad the maps are too small for 64p.
    Too badly designed for a flanking / camping style gameplay
    and theres too few of them so they get boring in a week.

    Would be great with more and BIGGER more versatile maps. Either the maps are too open, or just a campfest. You CAN NOT run across 50 meters of open space without getting shot 7 times. This requires trenches, denser forest, more buildings to enter.. but none of the maps give this    … Expand
  3. shea1980
    May 19, 2014
    2
    Only 2 tanks and small maps.RO1 was better fun and lots more tanks.Tripwire told us they would be adding more tanks and to this day they have lied and added no new tanks
  4. fatehasfans
    Apr 27, 2014
    2
    Given the history and wealth of shooting games that have preceded this title I can confidently state that this game is a pile of ****

    Movement is wooden and jerky. Shooting is cumbersome and laboured. I could go on but its not worth the effort. Another **** game that looks like it was created by a group of six year olds adept in gaming software. Everyone is making games these    Given the history and wealth of shooting games that have preceded this title I can confidently state that this game is a pile of ****

    Movement is wooden and jerky.

    Shooting is cumbersome and laboured.

    I could go on but its not worth the effort.

    Another **** game that looks like it was created by a group of six year olds adept in gaming software. Everyone is making games these days (hence Steam being overrun with early release **** - everyone and their dog are at it *ahem* making games ofc *cough*. But it seems very few actually know what a good game is these days, a case of if you throw enough **** at a wall some will eventually stick. Also because practically every level of promotion and release publications are controlled it is very hard to know what a good review is. Standards are, on the whole, dropping.

    Bin this **** but then again since most people don't seem to know what a good game is I could perhaps be in the minority.    … Expand
  5. MagnetHomewood
    Mar 10, 2014
    2
    It's a good game, if you have a lot of patience ... I tried hard to like this game for so long, but it's very difficult. It had a very rocky release, full of bugs, and it took over a year to fix a lot of them. Some are still there and annoying. Lack of new content really lets the game down, nothing new for a long time (that is free anyway).

    This developer built its reputation on giving    It's a good game, if you have a lot of patience ... I tried hard to like this game for so long, but it's very difficult. It had a very rocky release, full of bugs, and it took over a year to fix a lot of them. Some are still there and annoying. Lack of new content really lets the game down, nothing new for a long time (that is free anyway).

    This developer built its reputation on giving lots of free content to support the game - to date, all we have had from them is 2 new maps and 2 new weapons. Pre-release, the developers promised 4 new tanks in the first content patch, now, 2.5 years later, we are still waiting.

    It's realistic and gritty enough, but they also went the mainstream way and added a level-up system and you get weapon upgrades and stat boosts ... so you have to decide how realistic that is. (Interesting paradox of this: you need to be level 25 to get a bayonet on your rifle, BUT a total noob can immediately grab a very important role such as Commander and ruin everybody's fun by not knowing what to do ...)

    ROOST was a classic game, but this falls very short of that, and the lack of new content is really frustrating, the game had so much potential.    … Expand
  6. Barashou
    Feb 20, 2014
    1
    TWI abandoned the RO1 formula/spirit in favor of more mainstream gameplay elements, resulting in a CoD5:WaW clone.

    ''Realism'' mode is in fact action mode without crosshairs. Some maps are pretty good, but they all lack in size. It's all a 64 player meatgrind fest. You cant flank on a full server. The maps are that small. Mindless push and pull, no tactics involved. And the    TWI abandoned the RO1 formula/spirit in favor of more mainstream gameplay elements, resulting in a CoD5:WaW clone.

    ''Realism'' mode is in fact action mode without crosshairs.

    Some maps are pretty good, but they all lack in size. It's all a 64 player meatgrind fest. You cant flank on a full server. The maps are that small. Mindless push and pull, no tactics involved.

    And the vehicles TWI promised it's community 2,5 years ago? Nothing. Still in beta. ''Soon'' means 2,5 years.
    TWI loves to take years to fix gamebreaking bugs, too. Mapclipping (exploits) and MG-clipping (invulnerable MG guns) were in the game for years.

    There is a reason why there is NO competitive scene whatsoever within RO2.    … Expand
  7. Lex_Luger
    Oct 2, 2013
    0
    The game was released a full year before it was ready.

    You cant exit vehicles, and you spawn inside of them unlike the first game. Bug ridden mess and a unbalanced cash grab with overpowered guns. Only 2 new maps 2 years after release compared to RO1 which had a dozen new maps. No new vehicles or weapons added since release. You cant detach bayonet like the original. You level up    The game was released a full year before it was ready.

    You cant exit vehicles, and you spawn inside of them unlike the first game.

    Bug ridden mess and a unbalanced cash grab with overpowered guns. Only 2 new maps 2 years after release compared to RO1 which had a dozen new maps. No new vehicles or weapons added since release. You cant detach bayonet like the original. You level up which increases your accuracy and resistance to suppresion effects. So much for hardcore realism. You use mouse to aim tank turret instead of keyboard. You use mouse to select voice commands instead of keyboard. Game only has handful of voice commands unlike the first game which had more than any other game ever made. Game is such a dissapointment. All the hardcore competitive players left after a few months. Game is full of noobs who level up against bots.

    This game is the very definition of selling out and making a blatent cash grab. I will never buy another tripwire product again.    … Expand
  8. JimCorbett
    Sep 1, 2013
    3
    Two years after release this game is still filled with bugs and glitches. Tripwire has continually shown they don't care at all about fixing the problems with this game and instead want to add new content that you have to pay for (Rising storm). The campaign is the single most broken and worthless singleplayer experience I've ever had in a FPS. Framerate stutters, the AI runs aroundTwo years after release this game is still filled with bugs and glitches. Tripwire has continually shown they don't care at all about fixing the problems with this game and instead want to add new content that you have to pay for (Rising storm). The campaign is the single most broken and worthless singleplayer experience I've ever had in a FPS. Framerate stutters, the AI runs around aimlessly, enemies spawn next to you, it's so dumb and not fun at all. In multiplayer you simply camp in one spot and wait for someone to walk in front of you so you can kill with with all the skill that is required in that. Basically it's, camp, camp, camp, kill someone who was stupid enough to not camp, camp, camp, camp, repeat over, and over, and over. It's so mind-bogglingly boring and skill-less. After 40 hours spent in this game over the course of a couple months I have given up. There is no hope for it anymore. Stay away.… Expand
  9. Fulscal
    Jun 5, 2013
    4
    You'd better get Invasion 1944 mod for Arma 2: Combined Operations. It has everything RO2 does not great scale, realistic tracked vehicles with appropriate armor damage system, great ballistics, nice maps, planes (civ and combat), gliders and so on. Everything for FREE.
  10. Alex614
    May 19, 2013
    4
    I USED to love this game. However, recently, I have started having connection issues where it says "connecting..." on every single server. On top of that, the game IS a glitch filled mess. The only reason I even liked it is because I got it for 5 dollars on a steam sale, or so I see that now. Stay away from this bug filled piece of useless crap. The only thing that awaits you isI USED to love this game. However, recently, I have started having connection issues where it says "connecting..." on every single server. On top of that, the game IS a glitch filled mess. The only reason I even liked it is because I got it for 5 dollars on a steam sale, or so I see that now. Stay away from this bug filled piece of useless crap. The only thing that awaits you is glitches, troubleshooting, and maybe, MAYBE the occasional fun map.… Expand
  11. CoreOfDeath
    May 1, 2013
    0
    I'm sorry but this is a pathetic excuse for a game.I am a huge fanatic of WW2 games and this is a disgrace to the sub-genre.I mean its not even bloody playable i got killed through concrete walls and at times i just randomly fall over and die.The multiplayer is just as big of a pile of as the campaign,when you're lucky enough to get into a game you either fall through the ground or getI'm sorry but this is a pathetic excuse for a game.I am a huge fanatic of WW2 games and this is a disgrace to the sub-genre.I mean its not even bloody playable i got killed through concrete walls and at times i just randomly fall over and die.The multiplayer is just as big of a pile of as the campaign,when you're lucky enough to get into a game you either fall through the ground or get disconnected.… Expand
  12. Nova20HUN
    Apr 6, 2013
    0
    I tried it on the free week on steam.-_-. worst game ever in my library...There can only one sniper in each team, why? My grandmother throws bigger than these soldiers in the game
  13. RakAttack
    Mar 7, 2013
    3
    This game is horrible. I was expecting a single player storyline and gameplay similar to good old Call of Duty 2. Turns out you have to capture controlpoints nodes like Battlefield 1942. Even in single player. Gameplay is clunky and not refined. The enemy AI can see you through anything(foliage, desbris) so you keep getting shot even when you think you're in cover. It takes just as muchThis game is horrible. I was expecting a single player storyline and gameplay similar to good old Call of Duty 2. Turns out you have to capture controlpoints nodes like Battlefield 1942. Even in single player. Gameplay is clunky and not refined. The enemy AI can see you through anything(foliage, desbris) so you keep getting shot even when you think you're in cover. It takes just as much space on your HD as other NextGen games do. But it looks and acts like a game desiged 9 years ago. Oh! and its crashes often!… Expand
  14. Veniathan
    Dec 16, 2012
    4
    Being a Red Orchestra: Ostfront 44 - 45 veteran I looked up to this game.

    First, at the release it was a horrible and unfinished piece of **** Now in December (2012) it is still a horrible and unifnished piece of ****. This game lacks EVERYTHING that the first game had, EVERYTHING. Let me start off with my biggest irritation. The game feels empty, dull and uninspired. The maps    Being a Red Orchestra: Ostfront 44 - 45 veteran I looked up to this game.

    First, at the release it was a horrible and unfinished piece of **** Now in December (2012) it is still a horrible and unifnished piece of ****.

    This game lacks EVERYTHING that the first game had, EVERYTHING.

    Let me start off with my biggest irritation.

    The game feels empty, dull and uninspired. The maps are always the same **** couple of buildings here and there. Random and unthought roads and cover here and there and they call it a map.

    The gameplay consists of you running around just searching for the enemy and hoping to actualy find him, when you do you just shoot at eachother until the war is **** over. The maps and the gameplay are so dull I often play for 10 minutes and quit. It's just not enjoyable, it's so repative and boring .. And the better you are at the game the more boring it gets. Because once you actualy relize and get skilled, the game becomes of you shooting people like pigs without any resistance.

    The classes that the game offers (Rifleman, Squad Leader) also feel like there is no difference or detail to them, it's just all about the weapon you get when you choose. NOTHING else.

    The graphics are **** and the optimization is bad, this is primarely because they decided to use the HORRIBLE Unreal Engine. It instead became Blurred textures & Bloom: The Videogame.

    This game lacks what WW2 shooters need. That is, big maps, slow gameplay and most important of all NOT DULL gameplay! RO2 does not offer any of this.

    The game is really simple often divided into Objective A, B and C.

    Soviets attack A B and C and the Wehrmacht defends A, B and C. This never stops and goes on for eternities until somebody wins, when they win there is a cheesy themesong playing with zero detail and feel to it. And you just feel like "Oh wow, it's finaly over"

    Played this ****ty mess for 103 hours on Steam, I think I deserve the right to talk so bad about it. I've had it.

    Tripwire Interactive has also attempted to attract more idiots to this game by making free weekends almost every month what it feels like, and constant discounts and sales. But it just isn't working.

    The game is **** if you want a good WW2 game consider something else. RO: Ostfront and the mod Darkest Hour for it are 100 times better.

    Good luck.    … Expand
  15. Blackthorne20
    Nov 17, 2012
    4
    One thought comes to my head when playing this game: made by amateurs. It feels like a sloppy console port using a dated graphics engine, even though it's a PC exclusive. The post-processing effects poorly hide the low textures by blurring the whole environment. It's so unconvincing. Single player is worthless and just plain unplayable. I can only ever find a couple of populated servers,One thought comes to my head when playing this game: made by amateurs. It feels like a sloppy console port using a dated graphics engine, even though it's a PC exclusive. The post-processing effects poorly hide the low textures by blurring the whole environment. It's so unconvincing. Single player is worthless and just plain unplayable. I can only ever find a couple of populated servers, with a large majority bots to substitute the empty slots. At least the game runs at a stable framerate online, but games like Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway look and run a whole heck of a lot better. The controls are so clunky compared to the original RO. Suppression effects are way too exaggerated in this game; in the original RO, the screen only flickers a little when a bullet whizzes by you. When you get suppressed in this game (which is all too often), the whole screen turns black and white, making it impossible to see anything. No one cooperates as a team because they're more concerned about getting kills and unlocking weapons than actually playing the objective. The maps in my opinion are too small... some more emphasis on vehicles like in the original RO would be much appreciated. Overall this game feels like another trashy, fast-paced console shooter.… Expand
  16. Rcoop
    Oct 9, 2012
    4
    I would have liked to give this more. But after more than a year since the release is still a buggy game. It needs a beast of a machine to run efficiently. I got that now, but still find far too many bugs: clipping bugs, graphics etc... Shame - the game has innovative parts, the developers seem to be involved. But still too buggy and not satisfying to play. Get your act together TripwireI would have liked to give this more. But after more than a year since the release is still a buggy game. It needs a beast of a machine to run efficiently. I got that now, but still find far too many bugs: clipping bugs, graphics etc... Shame - the game has innovative parts, the developers seem to be involved. But still too buggy and not satisfying to play. Get your act together Tripwire otherwise people will give up on you!… Expand
  17. panokia75
    Aug 24, 2012
    4
    No no no no no. Save your money and read a book. I thought the time effort and money I put onto researching and eventually buying this game a shrew investment which would be an enjoyable and tactical feast of game play with some good visuals. I am afraid I am wrong in every way. RO2 is one of the least enjoyable games I have played for sometime. It is like playing a very dull flightNo no no no no. Save your money and read a book. I thought the time effort and money I put onto researching and eventually buying this game a shrew investment which would be an enjoyable and tactical feast of game play with some good visuals. I am afraid I am wrong in every way. RO2 is one of the least enjoyable games I have played for sometime. It is like playing a very dull flight simulator only on the battlefield.
    I will put it simply this is like Call of Duty 2 trying to be a simulator and taking every enjoyable aspect out of the gameplay. Sorry to compare but this is exactly how it feels.
    Controls are wooden fiddly and non intuitive. Graphics are woeful. The occasional hue, sun glare, and haze effects do not detract from virtually zero detail and textures and just plain dull graphics. The "tank" view is hysterical like something seen from a ZX spectrum from the 80's. Worst of all the sound is laughable and the effects close to appalling. Other issues are dull gameplay and uninspiring maps with no feel or soul. The reason I bought this game is that I was sold on this. If the game was as massive as ARMA 2 then I would forgive the lack of graphical depth, however the maps are probably only twice the size of CoD games.
    The only reason to buy this game in my opinion is that you have a specific interest with the developers of from people who know the developers.    … Expand
  18. vivi
    May 25, 2012
    2
    Really dissapointed with this game.

    People in the community think that when we criticise this game is cause we are COD or Battlefield players which in my case is completely wrong. I come from Wolfentein: Enemy Territory series and I was looking for a game that made me had fun, trailers looked promising but after playing there's only one conclusion: This game is just boring as hell.    Really dissapointed with this game.

    People in the community think that when we criticise this game is cause we are COD or Battlefield players which in my case is completely wrong. I come from Wolfentein: Enemy Territory series and I was looking for a game that made me had fun, trailers looked promising but after playing there's only one conclusion:

    This game is just boring as hell. Whether you are skilled or not it doesn't matter, most time of the map you will spend it just running around to get killed by a random guy camping or a bot (not much human players either, nothing strange either)

    Graphics are nice, not outstanding but correct, atmosphere is good too. These is the only reason why I give it 2 points.

    However, gameplay is incredibly boring, doesn't matter if you play the "action" mode or the "classic" mode, in both cases you will end up doing the same, running or dying or camping waiting to kill one or two enemies in 15 mins.

    The maps are just too big and badly created, there are no short distance fights, just enormous buildings to walk around, sniper fights and boring boring walking.

    Some blame the relase at beta stage as the main reason why this game was not succesful but this is wrong, just a few bugs and glitches would have ketp a big community waiting for the patches.

    This game is just not fun to play and thats why the game dies day by day and the community gets smaller.

    This game with the atmosphere had all the ingredientes to be an awesome arcade action game, sadly another WWII game to forgett.

    Making a "realistic style" game as the fans claim doesnt mean making a boring game.

    Developers should learn a bit from old action games. If there are only tanks and basicly infrantry fights... make action available in the game, it just feels so slow you sometimes forget you are supposed to be in a war inside the game.

    As I said, really dissapointed with this game.    … Expand
  19. HotLips
    Apr 30, 2012
    1
    Sorry to say bud fail game ply graphics are oke bud that its just unplayable for pc to many bugs and stupid ai running back and forward and manny bugs even the music cant be turn oof it keeps comming back i like old school call of duty simply and effective
  20. Alexdiim
    Apr 8, 2012
    4
    As a big RO fan, I feel really disappointed. 7 months after the release, this game is really far from being good. Let me be honest with you: I find this game so bad that giving this even a 6 is an insult to all Ostfront fans. We can't talk 'bout realism if a PTRS round is able to pass through the front armor of a tank turret and kill its gunner, if a soldier can heal himself with a patchAs a big RO fan, I feel really disappointed. 7 months after the release, this game is really far from being good. Let me be honest with you: I find this game so bad that giving this even a 6 is an insult to all Ostfront fans. We can't talk 'bout realism if a PTRS round is able to pass through the front armor of a tank turret and kill its gunner, if a soldier can heal himself with a patch after taking so 2-3 rifle bullets at close range but a binocular stab or a bayo kills instantly, if someone is not able to lay down near a wall 'cause "he's too close to it", if grenades are deadly only if you throw them really close to the opponents (if someone knows how deadly nades are)... We can't talk 'bout a complete game since there are still bad bugs (falling through the terrain after spawning, getting stuck to the walls with a tank or in a hole while trying to find cover, watching through texture etc etc), the game is not completed (campaign still missing, 2 bad coded tanks only and still 9 maps, some of them are really unbalanced), there's lack of players ( at the moment, 500 at max as far as I know and see) which means that there's a lack of general interest, there's not a proper cheat detection (just have a look on youtube), it requires a good rig otherwise you'll go pixel hunting most of the times... It's too expensive for what it really offers. I still play the game and still hope it will get better, but for now I suggest you to save your moneys and play something else untill it will be fixed, new maps will come out and, hopefully, we will have the same feeling of playing Ostfront back. I'm sorry, TWI, you made too many mistakes and you don't listen to your community.… Expand
  21. Clovius
    Feb 18, 2012
    0
    I feel violated. Not only do I feel robbed of my pre order money. This is not the game tripwire told us it would be. They didn´t mention they would release a beta and charge full price for it. They didn´t mention it would be a bad call of duty clone. They didn´t mention it would not work on alot of rigs. The reason for releasing this beta instead of aI feel violated. Not only do I feel robbed of my pre order money. This is not the game tripwire told us it would be. They didn´t mention they would release a beta and charge full price for it. They didn´t mention it would be a bad call of duty clone. They didn´t mention it would not work on alot of rigs. The reason for releasing this beta instead of a finished product was simple: money. With BF3 and Modern warfare 3 soon to be released aswell, tripwire figured if they were first on the scene they could get alot of people waiting for those games to buy RO2 and play while they awaited the other games. It worked with the preorder, on the day of RO2´s release there where around 10.000 players at peak hours. After a week that number was less than 3000. Now, six months later, this game is stuggles to get above 1000. Is it a good beta then? Sadly not even that. Besides the bucketload of bugs, still unadressed six months after release there are still alot of things that will never be changed. The biggest and most gamebreaking one of these things is the netcoding. When you fire a weapon, you have to lead for ping. And because the ping is never consistent, you have to guess where your shot will land. We can thank Ramm for that one, among other things. This might be fixed by modders, who in all likelyhood will do a better job than the amateurs at tripwire. Add to this a less than customer friendly attitude of some of the teripwire team *cough* Rammjaeger *cough* this experience has lead me to decide to never spend any more my hard earned money on products coming from Tripwire.
    Tl:Dr version = BETRAYAL!!!    … Expand
  22. taboff
    Jan 17, 2012
    0
    TWI is amateurs. Making game, treating paid customers, they are low on budget, low on creative capacity.

    1. poor performance heavily relying on CPU power solely. (if your cpu is lesser than i5 or i7, game breaking, annoying stuttering is inevitable. ) 2. TWI lacks experience in game designing, coding. ( They are just amateurs at best. ) 3. TWI fight against most legitimately    TWI is amateurs. Making game, treating paid customers, they are low on budget, low on creative capacity.

    1. poor performance heavily relying on CPU power solely. (if your cpu is lesser than i5 or i7, game breaking, annoying stuttering is inevitable. )

    2. TWI lacks experience in game designing, coding. ( They are just amateurs at best. )

    3. TWI fight against most legitimately criticizing core users even restricting posting anything and will even give you infraction notice for posting that doesn't even show up in their forum cos of their secretive censorship out of their "official policy" and out of logic. ( again, TWI is amateurs at best. ) 4. RO2 is not fun enough arcade shooter nor good enough tactical shooter.
    - This is the main reason most ro vets abandoned or criticise the game.

    5. Initial 8,000? customers left within a month of release. Among them are ro vets/ tactical gamers.
    - It's not fun arcade shooter, not even good enough tactical shooter either.

    Some ppl dyinghard to defend this awful game from general point of view would give this many 10s.
    I don't usually give any game unjustful score, and try to be fair, but TWI's reaction toward customers (this was actually my first pre ordered purchase.) I don't really think this game really deserves any of those high scores.

    Just think about why this lost so many initial gamers in the first place and nowadays retains only 200-300 players worldwide at peak, answer is there.    … Expand
  23. escalation666
    Dec 29, 2011
    1
    Could have been the perfect game but completely failed to live up to RO1, the release of RO2 was rushed which lead to an unfinished and buggy product, some promised features like co-op campaign was missing, all this resulted in a massive drop of players the first weeks, RO2 was literally dead after one month although the troll-based community refuse to admit it and continues to live inCould have been the perfect game but completely failed to live up to RO1, the release of RO2 was rushed which lead to an unfinished and buggy product, some promised features like co-op campaign was missing, all this resulted in a massive drop of players the first weeks, RO2 was literally dead after one month although the troll-based community refuse to admit it and continues to live in denial. Such a shame on a game that could have been so much more.… Expand
  24. lucipher
    Dec 22, 2011
    2
    Hmm, where to begin with this mess?

    First, in a first person shooter game, I have never found such ridiculous hit boxes. Hit detection in this game is truly screwed up, probably a result of horrible multiplayer code. You *will* stick a submachine gun into someones chest and they *will* not die even after unloading a full clip. This also makes leading moving targets fairly hard. For    Hmm, where to begin with this mess?

    First, in a first person shooter game, I have never found such ridiculous hit boxes. Hit detection in this game is truly screwed up, probably a result of horrible multiplayer code. You *will* stick a submachine gun into someones chest and they *will* not die even after unloading a full clip. This also makes leading moving targets fairly hard.

    For whatever reason, the dev's added NPC tannk crewmembers. THis might be ok - if they did not also shoot the guns for you. Very easy to park a tank in a key location, particularly as Axis, and let your super-soldier NPC AI friends mow down everyone coming in. They are far more accurate than they should be, I have exploited this a few times - but it's not really fun, just obnoxious. The tanks also feel like moving a cardboard box around instead of driving.

    Oh - the upgrade weapons! IN their infinite wisdom, they added a bunch of weapons that were never mass produced, such as the precusor to the AK-47. Instead of a deliberately paced rifle shooter, we end up with a blandly themed, poorly performing CoD World at War 2.0 - everyone and their mom is running around with some unusual weapon.

    I hope the idiots that published this trash enjoy their Lamborghini - I will never buy anything from them - or associated with their names - again. Complete rip off - you get a handful of maps some of which don't even work. It also crashes frequently and the netcode is so bad pings average 300ms with a very fast connection.    … Expand
  25. MouseOfPain
    Dec 20, 2011
    0
    The game is so flawed it's almost unplayable. I'm not even talking about the poor performance issue, but in fact the various flaws in the game design itself.

    The game system will constantly auto kill you, you will fall through the map, you will die leaving the invisible zone, you will die trying to capture a house.... basically you will be dying a lot, but not by the hands of the    The game is so flawed it's almost unplayable. I'm not even talking about the poor performance issue, but in fact the various flaws in the game design itself.

    The game system will constantly auto kill you, you will fall through the map, you will die leaving the invisible zone, you will die trying to capture a house.... basically you will be dying a lot, but not by the hands of the opponent, but rather by the hands of the devs :/

    Was really looking forward to a realistic WWII shooter, but this game is too much of a disappointment!    … Expand
  26. ABNMP
    Dec 5, 2011
    2
    You can find many free shooters to play that excel over this in almost every fashion.
    I bought the game looking for a team based experience but ended up getting killed over and over and over in a graphically sub par game. I would use the word HORRID to describe this tripe, but it would not convey the truth of my sentiment. Avoid this. You have been warned.
  27. redbarm
    Nov 25, 2011
    0
    This the most stupid game ever. There are Lots of stupid bugs. The single mission starts with stupid TRAINING Session, and beleive me passing this stage impossible. I just finished all the supid TRAINING seesions, even with stupid FIXED MACHINE GUN, the game doesn t finish. The stupid YELLOW Flashing turns on the STUPID fixing machine station with stupid GREEN Smoke or whatever, it stillThis the most stupid game ever. There are Lots of stupid bugs. The single mission starts with stupid TRAINING Session, and beleive me passing this stage impossible. I just finished all the supid TRAINING seesions, even with stupid FIXED MACHINE GUN, the game doesn t finish. The stupid YELLOW Flashing turns on the STUPID fixing machine station with stupid GREEN Smoke or whatever, it still syas the ''Press the Lcontrol to leave..`" but it doesnt do anything. I just bought this game via steam to play a WWII shouter, but this stupid problem just messed up my demands. I never and ever preferer this stupid game to anybody. It sucks… Expand
  28. Ythumb
    Nov 11, 2011
    0
    ridiculous, I bought this game out of pure hype. And i'm truly disappointed I did. Honestly, This game is pure crap. Terrible. Probably sold so much because of stupid hats, Worst $60 I ever spent in my life. I really want my money back. Oh and the most terrible thing in this game is the tank gameplay, Its just absolutely ****
  29. icarusorigin
    Oct 25, 2011
    2
    One of the most bug ridden games iv played this year. I gave it time and its still pretty bad. Oh well maybe they will have a finished product for me in a year.
  30. Bart_D7
    Oct 23, 2011
    2
    I played Ro1 for 4 years. For me Red Orchestra (original) is a greatest FPS ever. RO2 is bad mix of BF/COD, bugs and even more bugs. This is unfinished product. Maps are poorly made and teamwork doesn't exist. RO2 will never become as RO1 was and can be called a fail. I know some people like this game, and I am not going to say it is trash. But I am not alone here, and I know countlessI played Ro1 for 4 years. For me Red Orchestra (original) is a greatest FPS ever. RO2 is bad mix of BF/COD, bugs and even more bugs. This is unfinished product. Maps are poorly made and teamwork doesn't exist. RO2 will never become as RO1 was and can be called a fail. I know some people like this game, and I am not going to say it is trash. But I am not alone here, and I know countless people who refuse to even play the game anymore due to its instability, poorly made maps. RO2 is spray and pray game just like COD. Lets talk about controls: Left CTRL is a magic button. With this button you can hide behind wall, give ammo, pick up weapon, use bandage. Problem is for example if a weapon is near a wall and than you have a hard time if you wish to pick it up. Unlocking system in RO2 is a horror I just cannot explain how bad unlocking system is. Don't waste you money on this half product.… Expand
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#73 Best PC Game of 2011
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#20 Most Discussed PC Game of 2011
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#28 Most Shared PC Game of 2011

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 49 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 49
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 49
  3. Negative: 1 out of 49
  1. CPUGamer
    Nov 27, 2011
    90
    The basic fact is that Red Orchestra 2 spoils you. Playing any other shooter, especially one that claims to be realistic, after going through a few rounds in RO2 is bound to be a disappointment.
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  2. Eurogamer Italy
    Nov 22, 2011
    70
    The multiplayer of Red Orchestra 2 offers various interesting debate points about the realistic online shooter breed: praised by many, played by few. Forgetting some bugs and the (hopefully) soon to be addressed performance hiccups, Red Orchestra 2 is definitely an entertaining product that, online-wise, will guarantee months of brutal fun.
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  3. Gamereactor Denmark
    Nov 17, 2011
    50
    If you think both Battlefield and Call of Duty are too exaggerated and unrealistic, and feel Counter-Strike is too soft, Red Orchestra 2 might be the game for you. It doesn't appeal to us, though.
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