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- 4/5
- Player reviews
- 85% positive299 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$5.99
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2002 · Real-time strategy · Real-time tactics
Sudden Strike 2
Sudden Strike II is a WWII themed R.T.S that lets the player choose between the British, American, Japanese and German campaigns, sometimes consisting of clearing the area of enemies or killing a general. Sudden Strike II allows you to take control of land, sea and air making for spectacular battles.
- Released
- 17 September 2002
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Real-time strategyReal-time tacticsSimulationStrategyWorld War II
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- cdv Software Entertainment
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- HistoricalWarfare
- Country
- Russia
- Age ratings
- ESRB TUSK 16
- Languages
- English, French, German, Russian
- Time to beat
- 85hmain story86hcompletionist
About
Sudden Strike 2 or Sudden Strike II, also known in Russia as Confrontation IV (Russian: Противостояние IV), is a real-time tactics computer game set in World War II, the second game in the Sudden Strike series and the sequel to the original Sudden Strike. It was developed by Russian developer Fireglow and published by CDV and was released in 2002.
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
The game has since undergone minor changes in its game engine and now features a higher resolution setting and other graphical changes. The campaign still involves the Soviets and Allies, against the Germans and a new country, Japan. While striving for historical accuracy, the missions are mostly fiction. The American missions are in the Rhine regions and tend to involve 'borrowing' war equipment from the German army rather than using their own tanks and other weapons.
The British missions revolves around the actual events at Wolfheze and Arnhem and the attempted capture of the bridge. The Japanese missions are centered along the lines of tropical jungle warfare and the use of tanks is somewhat limited whereas the Soviet campaign is based on the capture of the city of Kharkov and other battles along the Dniepr river waged by the Soviet Red Army.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
In the German market, the game debuted at #7 on Media Control's computer game sales chart for the month of May 2002. It climbed to second place in June, before dropping to ninth, 12th and 20th places for the following months, respectively. According to publisher CDV Software, the game reached global sales of roughly 250,000 units by the end of 2002, including 70,000 units in the German market.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- Wargamer's Choice: Strategy Six Pack
- Downloadable content
- Hidden Stroke: APRM
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