Red Orchestra is a great mulitplayer game, with solid graphics, game mechanics, battlefields, and great sound. The game is best as a multiplayer, the tutorial single player is fine to learn the basics, but the bots are just too dumb to be of any real use and are quite frustrating. Best way to play is once one learns the basics is to jump into a online game. It might be brutal at first, but you will quickly learn to keep your head down, and learn to crawl, and use the terrain to your advantage. Its best to learn how to work within a team to be better able to complete mission objectives without dying a lot. Going lone wolf will usually result in a quick death by a sniper. There are some very good players online, but most seem to play fair. Graphics are solid, but dated, and the sound could be better but the game mechanics, and battle designs trump those short comings. Plus people are always creating new map for online use. The developers periodically add more content and fix know issue to make playing more interesting. This is a much more realistic FPS mulitplayer game than Counter Strike, or DoD. Its amazing how detail the world is with bombed out buildings, or open Ukraine Steps. The developer made the world realistic as can be, guns can overheat, run out of ammo, jam and MG barrels must be changed when they wear out. Bullets and tanks shells have realistic effected by gravity and wind. Learn to lead moving targets at a distance. Players can only run short distances before tiring, and breathing effect accuracy and stamina. One hit kill are common. Most tanks in the game have similar characteristics as the real tanks they are modeled. Artillery can be called in from certain points. How the game works is you choose which side you want to play. Either German or Russian. Then you choose your class, for example sniper, infantry, storm trooper, vehicle crew, anti-tank, MG gunner, squad leader and sapper. Each class has its own play type. If you are a MG you support the squad, by laying down cover fire. Squad leader lead the squad. Vehicle crew are the only one that can operate tanks. Anti-tank solider must try to protect their side by taking out enemy tanks. Well you get the picture. Then you join in the fight. You can communicate with your side by selecting dozens of pre-created messages to send to them, or use voice commands if you have the proper set up. I found the message commands menu pretty difficult to use in the game with all the action happening around. Each side had objectives to take or defend depending on the map. In all this is a great game if one enjoys realistic battle simulation with combined forces. It might not be someones cup of tea if they like to run and gun, and play lone wolf. Online games can be frustrating at first, but people will learn quickly that they have to act as a team. Communication is important. Looking out for your squad mates is equally important. Situation awareness is also very important since you never know when any enemy sniper will start picking people off on your side, or a enemy tank runs you down. It as real as it gets with out joining the army.
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