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Fireglow, 2002
The world war II real time strategy game Sudden Strike 2
has its merits. These mainly concern the realism of
the game. There is no base building or unit training, each
side has their own set of armored vehicles and artillery, and
they all speak their respective languages well. It's fun to
take over their tanks with your crewmen, or take over enemy
artillery and bombard their positions with their own equipment.
But there are times when the game loses its appeal. For instance:
- It's nice that each unit of the warring countries says
appropriate things (as far as I can tell). The German troops
say things like "Bereit zum Angriff!" and "Loss, loss, loss!".
The briefings on the other hand are done in a thick accent:
"Make your vay to ze farms in ze norts and capture zem."
- It's fun to have lots of different infantry types, like
rifleman, submachine gunner, crew, engineer, sniper, medic,
officer, etc. It's not so fun when you can only tell them
apart by hovering your mouse over them.
- It's fun to make paradrops with your own group of infantry.
It's not so fun when the plane decides to move down the runway
and mows down your group as they walk up to the plane.
- And finally, it's not so fun when you need to find an
enemy soldier you've apparently overlooked earlier and you
have to comb out a large forest on the other side of the map
and it takes half an hour to get there. Or worse, when the
mission was to destroy a factory on the east bank of a river,
and you have destroyed everything on the map only to find the
game doesn't register your victory. In such a case it's
best to remember *blitzkrieg*.
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Press Enter to go to message mode,
then type one of the following:
| English version: | German version: |
| *blitzkrieg* | **blitzkrieg | Instant victory |
| *koenigstiger* | **koenigstiger | Invincibility and increased attack |
| *omniscience* | **omniscience | Remove fog of war |
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Fast defense
When the game is paused, you can not only scroll around the map, you
can also order your troops around. This is especially helpful in the
missions where you have to defend your base from invasion, and the
enemy is already advancing. This way you should have enough time to
set up your defenses.
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