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I wanted to make a thread to raise awareness of this specific game.
After years of crappy ahistorical diverse AAA shooters and autistic simulationist multiplayer indie shooters, a really small team (one guy?) has made a game that costs almost nothing but has far more content than any of those.
Easy Red 2 is basically a jank-ass indie throwback to old Call of Duty/Medal of Honor that depicts EVERYTHING from World War II. It plays more or less like Enlisted but focused on single-player, as you spawn in as a squad and can switch off seamlessly between the squadmates who have different, accurate roles (like designated marksmen with scoped rifles, submachine gun usually on the squad leader, light machine guns, anti-tank rifles, etc.), with a tank system that similarly has at least some of the basics (tread disabling, armor profiles) and lets you control the whole tank if you can staff each role. The planes are shit and I wouldn't touch them, there's no reason to want to play as a plane when War Thunder exists. What you have is a selection of campaigns from all over World War II. Some of it is (extremely cheap) DLC, but it's got:
Stock:
- Mediterranean vacation: Tunisia, Kos (Corelli's Mandolin), Anzio-Cassino
- Flintlock and Makin for the Pacific Theater
DLC:
- D-Day
- The Ardennes; German blitzkrieg against France, the Bulge
-Stalingrad
- Shanghai and the Raep of Nanking (this one actually kind of sucks, the only reason anybody gives a shit about Shanghai is that it was Stalingrad on the Yangtze and these shitters focused on the rural outskirts so they wouldn't have to make it that dense)
In which you can play as rarely-seen factions like the French and Free French, Chinese Nationalists and Allied Italians.
With the Russo-Japanese clash at Khalkhin Gol and Hungary (German-Hungarians vs Soviet-Romanians) on the way.
Does it play well? Reasonably for what it is. Compared to Enlisted it is not, of course, a competitive sport-style multiplayer game, but the AI is notably smarter, the tone is much better and the framing of it (each operational campaign plays out through many separate tactical engagements on different parts of the same massive map) is nicer. What you are not going to get is one of those lame old-school narrative campaigns where the Generic Jew, Generic Texan and Generic Guido team up to win World War II by spouting the most boring dialogue possible. (Unlike those, it also sticks to the best part, which was being one mook in a big battle that's going to go on with or without you.) You won't even get massive autistic infodumps like Isonzo does. But it is functional. The different roles are fun to play. The worst thing I can say for the AI is that it doesn't hit the dirt like a human player will. It is sort of... inconsistently smart. It seems to have no self-preservation around tanks (they die like flies to them) but their competence is about right to put up a fight.
Go buy it for $8, or better yet, $30 for the whole bundle (I got it on a big sale). It is based.
After years of crappy ahistorical diverse AAA shooters and autistic simulationist multiplayer indie shooters, a really small team (one guy?) has made a game that costs almost nothing but has far more content than any of those.
Easy Red 2 is basically a jank-ass indie throwback to old Call of Duty/Medal of Honor that depicts EVERYTHING from World War II. It plays more or less like Enlisted but focused on single-player, as you spawn in as a squad and can switch off seamlessly between the squadmates who have different, accurate roles (like designated marksmen with scoped rifles, submachine gun usually on the squad leader, light machine guns, anti-tank rifles, etc.), with a tank system that similarly has at least some of the basics (tread disabling, armor profiles) and lets you control the whole tank if you can staff each role. The planes are shit and I wouldn't touch them, there's no reason to want to play as a plane when War Thunder exists. What you have is a selection of campaigns from all over World War II. Some of it is (extremely cheap) DLC, but it's got:
Stock:
- Mediterranean vacation: Tunisia, Kos (Corelli's Mandolin), Anzio-Cassino
- Flintlock and Makin for the Pacific Theater
DLC:
- D-Day
- The Ardennes; German blitzkrieg against France, the Bulge
-Stalingrad
- Shanghai and the Raep of Nanking (this one actually kind of sucks, the only reason anybody gives a shit about Shanghai is that it was Stalingrad on the Yangtze and these shitters focused on the rural outskirts so they wouldn't have to make it that dense)
In which you can play as rarely-seen factions like the French and Free French, Chinese Nationalists and Allied Italians.
With the Russo-Japanese clash at Khalkhin Gol and Hungary (German-Hungarians vs Soviet-Romanians) on the way.
Does it play well? Reasonably for what it is. Compared to Enlisted it is not, of course, a competitive sport-style multiplayer game, but the AI is notably smarter, the tone is much better and the framing of it (each operational campaign plays out through many separate tactical engagements on different parts of the same massive map) is nicer. What you are not going to get is one of those lame old-school narrative campaigns where the Generic Jew, Generic Texan and Generic Guido team up to win World War II by spouting the most boring dialogue possible. (Unlike those, it also sticks to the best part, which was being one mook in a big battle that's going to go on with or without you.) You won't even get massive autistic infodumps like Isonzo does. But it is functional. The different roles are fun to play. The worst thing I can say for the AI is that it doesn't hit the dirt like a human player will. It is sort of... inconsistently smart. It seems to have no self-preservation around tanks (they die like flies to them) but their competence is about right to put up a fight.
Go buy it for $8, or better yet, $30 for the whole bundle (I got it on a big sale). It is based.
