Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad with Rising Storm

SIEG

Game is dead, there's only one server active and it only starts to be filled with players from 8pm - 12am, after that players will start to leave and it's just another bot server. Server admins also love to ban players for petty reasons like playing MG/PPSH too much or if they suspect you of "cheating/hacking".

Amazing

Very good game, although it is pretty much a death simulator when you first play.
Game is still alive and server is usually full on the weekend. 🤩

No more multiplayer? :( Played this in 2011, it was so good.

IT WILL FOREVER BE THE BEST WW2 MULTIPLAYER FPS EVER MADE IMO. I FUCKING MISS THIS GAME

Amazing game. Fast, nervous, deadly.
To me, it's the perfect balance of arcade and realism, it's very fast pace and you can die and come back in a 30 seconds when things are tough. But you also have some lingering moments when the line is scattered, and you have to check every corner. Rising storm brings some cool new maps and weapons.

Only real problem is the tank gameplay, quite clunky and unfinished, but it's very minor in the overhall game.
Of course since it's old, know that you'll be chosing between playing against IA or joining 2-3 active games with a decent player number, many of whom are absolute killers with 1000+ hours.

get friendly by fired by artillery.

10/10

It's a great game, and for 2011, its still alive and well. But do beware, that if you do own very modern hardware (like a 4080/90 like I do) the game is borderline unplayable. Crashing at the main menu, during gameplay, etc.

Sad, but it is what it is..

very good

Maybe the best WW2 shooter ive ever played

The greatest WW2 shooter of all time. Music? Peak. Gunplay? Peak? Character design? Peak. Level design? You already know it's fucking Peak. So good I will happily play on 200 ping eu servers and the gameplay is fluid enough you can still frag on high ping as long as you aren't trading one for one.

This game is so frustratingly good. Like the tickle that won't go away. Thanks Steam and Rising Storm for this.

very fun even after all these years

Игра очень хороша и давайте я скажу плюсы:
1 атмосфера
2 система частей тебя и органов
3 реалистичное управление танком(нужен экипаж для езды)
4Довольно большой выбор оружия
Итог: игра очень хороша и актуальна сегодня

ZA STALINAAAAAA!!!!!

I didn't quite get the appeal. It feels so boring that I can't stick for the entirety of a round.

its a good game just trying to find servers with good ping is non existent

The games combat is amazing but there is also a lot of problems.
THE GOOD
1. Amazing combat
- Good mix of arcade and realism
- Realism box aiming (even when aiming, takes a couple hours to get used to but very nice to play with)
2. Amazing Feedback
- Shooting someone feels like live leak
= Game has very realistic gore, severed limbs look horrific (in a good way), flexible gore settings, Amazing physics based death animations,
(Honorable mentions)
Dead characters will be frozen in place once the ragdoll has stopped moving and rested... allows for more flexible ragdoll count, changeable through config files.
THE BAD
1. Crashes... a lot
- Game runs well, but will randomly crash at the start of rounds. It will either freeze the game, forcing a PC restart if not in windowed mode, or crash to desk top.
2. Community is a mixed bag
- the worst players I found to be were those who played bridge jumpers.
3. clunky controls
4. Artificial inaccuracy (Bullets don't go straight and will spread even when aiming
- it makes sense for this game to have it and also prevents cross maps with lower tier weapons
5. balancing (faction)
- Germans by far have the better weaponry compared to Russia
5.5 balancing (matches)
- teams will often be unbalanced, it is very common to see a team that has a 10 player advantage/disadvantage. The community is very unwilling to switch teams to. The lack of a auto balance feature can be the route to this problem. (I hate auto balance in games but without a team scramble vote option, it is very annoying.

This game is amazing! I love a lot about it, but some glaring flaws have set it back for me and often makes me annoyed at the end of a game session. Either way I would still recommend this game due to its amazing game play but be warned that some things may severely impact your experience

I do find the game to be amazing but is held back

Peak Orchestra 2 >>>>> Hell Let Slop

Single player campain was removed and online is already dead. There is no point buying this.

Pros:

Cons:

It sucks that a game like this is basically dead, with an average of 150 players, Playing this game. It's an Amazing game! And truly urge you play it!

yes

Is godd

Has to be my favourite game honestly.

the game isn't as full as it was in its hay day. i loved this game with a burning passion and couldn't stop talking about it.

This game is based and there are still about a dozen people who play it

Hey, you want a taste of the good ol' PTSD, but you ain't gonna sign in to the military anytime soon? Don't worry! Who needs to go to war when you have "Red Orchestra 2"!

One of the best WWII Eastern Front multiplayer shooter known to mankind.

Released many years ago you need to be lucky to find a full server with a good ping, but if you do you'll achieve two things:

Ptsd and much fun on the way.

I will die for Red Orchestra 2?/Rising Storm

> Try playing on empty serwer (too many pro's on public)
> Rakowice map
> Germany as always
> Machinegunner
> Stay at bunker on first line
> Russian running into your position
> Mg34 starts singing
> Too many of them
> Die
> Second line same
> Third line same
> Last line - every bot start rushing into last point
> More Mg34 sing
> You can't handle it
> Changing barrel after every mag
> Still many of them, and rushing
> You're out of ammo and grenades
> Pick up PPsh from died russian
> Last stand with this gun inside the point
> Still many of them
> Die
> Match lost
> 220 kills
> Still many of them

PTSD and Easter Front Approved

banzai

despite it being a game from 2010, it scratches the itch we all have that we dont get from todays FPS games. Tripwire is so gay as hell for letting the community down with an unfinished game, and to be honest.

if this game was still worked on and had more maps and gamemodes or whatever the fuck there is to be to finish this, this couldve beat the shit outta Squad, and HLL.. so fuck you gay Tripwire.

Really nice game, nice maneuvering and mechanism. It is somewhat like Hell Let Loose.

gr8t game, but it seems liek its showwin its age, back to world of warcraft for me!

Exploitative, toxic, frustrating multiplayer experience

The Pacific and Eastern Fronts. It like better version COD World at War. Banzai is so much fun

A technically impressive but aging shooter that commodifies historical trauma while trapping players in a confusing monetization maze. Buy it if you enjoy punishing gameplay loops and reenacting humanity's capacity for organized slaughter, just don't pretend your purchase honors history rather than exploits it.

Graphics a bit dated, but it's fun, has immersive sounds and voices, several roles to play, and good gameplay, based on real locations.

This is quite honestly the best ww2 shooter ever created and is one of my favourite games of all time and even after all these years there is still a community going strong, this is the original ptsd-simulator.

Very rough game but has charm

slow ahh servers
bad optim
low player base
was prolly good in its days but if you are keen to buy it wait for a sale not worth the full price

It's alright, but why not play Squad 44 instead?

It's dead now

The only multiplayer game to make me feel fully immersed in the heart of war, truly something special.

REMEMBER TO ADD '83 ON YOUR WISHLIST, COMING Q4 2025!!

yes

some of the most fun ive had in online gaming.