But slowly, the German troops' steps began to be hampered because of the resistance by the Russians after they arrived in the City of Stalingrad. The Russians are constantly trying to prevent a German attack that wants to go further into their territory, because they know that Germany desperately wants Russian-owned oil resources to be used for the war against Britain and France in parts of Western Europe. The war between the Germans and the Soviet Union was heating up, each side using bayonets, bolt rifles, machine guns, SMGs, pistols, grenades, artillery and tanks to finish off each other. The fierce battle made several buildings scattered blood and shouts of pain that continued to echo throughout the game.
The Germans had indeed been made a hassle by the Russian defense is so tough when fighting in the city of Stalingrad. It can be seen from the number of Russian troops who fell and died sacrificing their lives in order to prevent the movement of German troops to enter the heart area of the Soviet Union in the City of Moscow. Meanwhile, at the same time the greatness of the German army when conquering most of Western Europe (excluding Britain) and Central Europe, was so blunted against the Russian army. Because not a few German troops were killed when they invaded the Russian territory. Because of the invasion that Germany did to Russia's own land, it has awakened the spirit of heroism and high nationalism in all circles of Russian society. Both old and young, male, female, they all join together in one another's power to drive Germany out of Russia by all means to fight their land freed from the German colonies.
Because either failure or success in completing a mission, did not affect the storyline on the ending of this game. So it can be said if the gameplay in Red Orchestra 2 is more close ended gameplay, although the size of the map level looks quite large and large but even so, at least you will be able to finish some missions using every way for one map. The mission itself basically, you just need to seize or maintain various existing strategic positions. If you succed, then more AI team will come and of course that position will be easily mastered. In every map, you will only carry one main weapon, one second weapon, and a grenade or other explosive. But don't worry, because you can still carry a maximum of two main weapons such as ordinary rifle, smg, machine gun and two second weapons in the form of all types of pistols and grenades. The rest, for additional weapons you can pick it up on the streets of the falling corpses. Uniquely, every weapon in this game, capable of displaying accuracy and recoil that almost exactly with the original weapons in the real world.
In addition, this game there are also some class of soldiers, such as rifleman, elite rifleman, assault, engineer, machine gunner, marksman, squad leader, and last commander, which we can use in Multi-Player Online mode. Not only that, the weapons that exist in this game is also a collection of weapons typical of the German and Soviet used in World War II such as KAR 98, MP 40, MKB 42, G41, MG 34, Mosin Nagan, PPSH 41, SVT 40, PTRS 1941, and many others. Next, at each level there will be ammunition supply and mini communications radio. In order to supply ammunition itself to fill the bullet automatically for infantry and cavalry that is Tank. And for Radio to ask for artillery fire or recon mission by airplane. For vehicles, in this game there are only two vehicles that you can drive, the Soviet T-34 tank and Panzer IV owned by Germany. You are free to choose one of four positions in T-34 and five positions in Panzer IV like driver, MG gunner one, MG gunner two, Tank Gunner, or Commander.
For graphical display, this game uses Unreal Engine 3 which is integrated with Phsyx Apex CPU. So that the depiction of the face of the characters, army uniforms, weapon models, as well as cabin tank interior, everything looks so detailed with a sharp texture. Movement animation also looks very smooth, it can you see on the scattered pieces of bodies or corpses lying on the floor. But in contrast to the interior and exterior of the building that only looks simpler when compared with the details of the characters, tanks, weapons and animations. In addition, I admit if the developer is able to design the effects of the destruction caused by the battle very well, it is seen from the ruins of the city of Stalingrad is really very dull and slums and the fire in some corners of the city after the battle.
Finally, for visual, music, and sound, this game offers some distinctive music from each country that aims to add to the spirit of the struggle. Then, the details of how to shoot in every battle in this game are shown so vividly, like when you insert a bullet, install a magazine, until the moment the gun cocks. Especially when you shoot, his voice will sound very loud even can make your ears deaf if you fight in the room. Not only that, the sound of a tank machine and when you put a bullet into the main gun will also sound very clear.
