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Fight across WWII's Stalingrad and Pacific fronts in a tactical FPS built around lethal gunplay, team objectives, and crewed tanks.
Released 13 Sep 2011
Fight through Stalingrad
Storm Pacific islands
Crew first-person tanks
Contains full Rising Storm content as well!
Developed by Tripwire Interactive · Published by Tripwire Interactive
Set across the Eastern Front battles around Stalingrad and the Pacific campaigns included with Rising Storm, the game puts players in the role of ordinary soldiers fighting for their team. Battles focus on infantry combat across historical locations, with opposing sides attacking or defending territory.
Combat emphasizes careful movement and accurate shooting: bullets can quickly kill or wound, while suppression and morale affect soldiers under fire. Players use cover, manage weapon handling and choose from limited roles such as rifleman, machine gunner, sniper, engineer, and commander.
Team modes include Firefight, Countdown, and Territory, with tanks operated by crews and commanders able to coordinate artillery. Persistent stats track progress through ranks, achievements, and abilities; matches can also be played with bots.
Players often praise the tense, demanding gunplay and the way weapon handling, suppression, battlefield audio, and soldier reactions create an immersive WWII atmosphere. Historical maps and detailed tank interiors also stand out in positive reviews. Some players still find populated matches, while others report that active servers are scarce; reviews also mention a steep learning curve and the game's age.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 140 |
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| Players | 1–64 |
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| Multiplayer | The game supports online multiplayer and is heavily focused on team-based PvP. Reviews and descriptions consistently indicate 32 vs 32 servers, for up to 64 players total. It includes multiple competitive modes such as Territory, Firefight, Countdown, campaign-style play, and tank-focused or combined-arms play. Singleplayer and bot-supported offline/server play are mentioned, but core multiplayer is online PvP. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop support, a level editor, community-made maps, custom servers, and mods are explicitly mentioned in features and reviews. Mods expand maps, factions, and content, including references to custom maps and a British mod. No source explicitly states whether mods require all players on a server to have matching content, but modding clearly affects available multiplayer servers and content. |
| Controller required | No |
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| Metacritic | 76/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
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