It’s important, because while I find military shooters generally distasteful because they are ideological in nature, I find strategy games like Sudden Strike to be valuable. These diaries are the thoughts of soldiers too busy following their orders than to contemplate the grander ideologies of what they’re doing, so there’s no heroism, no good vs. The only storytelling that’s really present in Sudden Strike is a diary that concludes each battle, from the perspective of whichever general you’re controlling. There are three different campaigns to play through the Germans, the Soviets, and the Allies (principally the English and the Americans), and that was one of the things that I appreciated about Sudden Strike from the outset in aiming to be a dry simulation of tactical-level combat through World War 2, it doesn’t get hung up in the kind of forced, flag-waving moralising that plagues shooters like Battlefield and Call of Duty to the point that they become propaganda, and in turn start to promote ideas around nationalism and military hero worship. The end result is something that’s not completely accurate, since, as a video game, realism doesn’t always work, but there is a genuine sense that the developers have done their homework to represent each of the battles in such a way that has historic merit. Sudden Strike 4 in particular aims for authenticity by accurately simulating the kinds of forces that participated in the various battles, and places you in control of a number of different commanders through the period, each with their own skill trees and abilities, based on their strengths as generals in the actual war. Matt’s review.įor those unfamiliar with the Sudden Strike series Sudden Strike is a series of serious RTS titles focused on key battles throughout World War 2. Related reading: Another (but much slower-paced) strategy game on PS4 is Grand Ages Medieval. It’s not perfect and clearly built as a PC mouse-and-keyboard game first and foremost, but it does a decent job nonetheless. But here we are with the PlayStation 4, which has already proven itself with the other strategy sub-genres with titles like Nobunaga’s Ambition and Grand Ages, and now we have Sudden Strike 4 to enjoy on it. The conventional wisdom was that there was no way a game controller could possibly do an adequate job with the RTS genre, particularly those RTSes that involved a lot of units and the need to move a lot of them independently to one another. It wasn’t so long ago that it would have been completely unthinkable to put a game like Sudden Strike 4 on console.
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