Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad

[Shakermaker]

Tripwire has announced it is working on a sequel to its mod / game Red Orchestra:

Ok, here is the official statement on the game for now. Yes there is an article about our new UE3 game Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad in the UK and US PC Gamer magazines. Frankly, we're more than a bit surprised at the timing of the release of the article. To put it quite bluntly we thought this would hit after the release of Killing Floor. As such we'll be doing a bit of a scramble to get our PR efforts in order while we are in the middle of getting another game ready to ship.

I know many of you have been waiting a very long time for this news, and I am very happy that we can finally confirm what we've been working on these past three years. RO:HOS (as we call it) is real, its using UE3, and its awesome Just bear with us while we recover from this unexpected announcement and in the immortal words of Battlestar Galactica - all will be revealed.

For now, we're not going to say anything else about the game. We'll let the article speak for itself. As Alan mentioned please don't post scans of the article on this forum. Additionally, please don't post quotes of text from the article on these forums. Our proper PR effort will begin in earnest soon, so you'll get more from us on that in the coming days.

I have seen the scans and the news from the PC Gamer article is:

• There will be a singleplayer campaign, both from a Russian and a German perspective
• Multiplayer will be a bit noob-friendlier but they're sticking to the realistic approach
• There will be a new mp mode called skirmish, which resembles terrorist hunt from Rainbow Six
• Although it is based on UE3 it doesn't look spectacular yet; especially the soldiers look a bit stiff
• It will be released in 2010

I am going to keep an eye on this. Hopefully Tripwire will release some more info and screens soon.

 

[Lucid]

Awesome.
RO is so fun.

 

[Sledgehammer]

Awesome.

It looks like it'll have more depth, but also more accessibility.

Looking forward to this.

 

[Jimmeh]

Awesome.

Nice to see a German campaign in there, can't recall that being done before. Hopefully they'll make decent use of UE3 as well.

Edit: Just saw the scans - I think it looks great. Pretty big step up from Ostfront I think, and there's plenty of time left to polish things up.