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Red Orchestra Mod Released For UT2004

Posted by simoniker on from the blue-conductor dept.

MigrantHail writes "According to the official site, the Red Orchestra 2 mod has just been released for Unreal Tournament 2004. Red Orchestra is a popular, freely downloadable total conversion mod which takes place in World War II, on the Eastern front (Germany against Russia, mainly.) The mod tries to give a more realistic WWII experience by not using crosshairs (aim down the barrels) and keeping the guns true to history."

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  1. Re:Original! by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We need Hexen or Heretic ported to a newer engine. Miss having a FPS with a porkolator or turn people into chickens. Tribes Vengence, CounterStrike Source (aka HL2 multiplayer) are also ones I'm waiting to come out.

    History games are ok, but I miss games as fun as Duke Nuke3d, with trip wires, and shrink rays, or even classic the SkyNet terminator game. Fakk2 was another great FPS, or American McGee's Alice in wonderland.

    Maybe a time travel game, where you have to go back and win old battles with modern weapons. Nice snipers rifle against some pirates. Oh the carnage.

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  2. Re:Original! by zaxer · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Certainly the WWII genre is overplayed, but you still need to keep in mind that for conflicts to be potential multiplayer games, the sides need to be somewhat equal.

    For example, the colonial war. You state the problem yourself - you need a bunch more people playing Brits than Americans, while the Americans have much more fun, because they can snipe and be original, while the Brits just march around everywhere and obey orders. Not a game I'd want to play.

    Or feudal Japan? Who would want to point and click a gun when you have swords with a ton of cool moves that go along? I wouldn't.

    That said, I think there still are a lot of options. It would be good for game developers to be much more original... but not every conflict would work.