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Sudden Strike Forever
Released On: Aug 22, 2001
70
7.2
All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
70
20% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
80% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
70
20% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
80% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
The missions are a wee bit tough, but nothing a veteran player can't handle. This game is realistic enough to satisfy the wargamers among us, and exciting enough to satisfy the most jaded real-time strategy gamer.
While there a few new things here, the developers didn't go nearly far enough towards either improving the original game model or adding a significantly sized new campaign.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 User Ratings
7.2
73% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
0% Mixed
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
27% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 11 User Ratings
7.2
73% Positive
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
0% Mixed
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
27% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Still today I didn't find a game providing such a gratifying multiplayer experience.
I'm taking about SSF as a whole, not the expansion by itself.
Multiplayer, up to 6vs6, functions like a Chess Game. Every player receives the same Power Force. The objective is to control Flags. Once controlled, those are consumed by the team and will turn into fixed reinforcements.
The other team still has the opportunity to recapture those flags and get the exact same reinforcements.
You get it: limited troops. Capture the flags to get reinforcements. Once a troop is dead, it's dead. If you **** on the battlefield you loose. No "base management" will save you. Only your choices as a commander, your ability to carefully deploy your defenses. Your ability to guess what the other players do will make you victorious or not.
With such gameplay element, the need of making very wise strategic decision is absolute. When playing with experienced players, there is no other Video Game experience as great as winning in SSF.
It is in fact the only game, extremely well balanced, where the victory is exclusively obtained by the strategy used on the terrain. No base management, no distraction, nothing except carefully planning, attacking, deploying, defending, converting, redeploying, teamwork, assault, counterassault, bullet management, key terrain control and so on... And all this while NEVER being overwhelming.
Mark this: if you are a good strategist, even if you never played the game, you'll make the difference with a veteran with poor strategic thinking. And I NEVER saw a game rewarding strategy over experience...
All of this is what makes this game one of the best RTS ever created. If not THE best. And it's not that I don't like or that I **** at RTS with bases and construction. In fact my second favorite game is one of the most hardcore, perfectly mixing base management and strategy glorification: Supreme Commander Forged Alliance.
I have so high expectations from Sudden Strike 4...
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Polished and challenging, and the inclusion of the mission editor, new multiplayer options, and the new campaign for the British (which is quite good) make the tribulations well worth the trouble.
But once you've completed the new missions you'll be looking for further challenges - this is where the online features come in.
Those whose impression of the first game was negative shouldn't expect to have their opinions changed.
Summary This add-on to the fixed unit real-time strategy Sudden Strike includes four new campaigns -- one each for the American, British, Russian, and German armies -- each with three missions. Also included are seven stand-alone scenarios.
Rated T
for Teen
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Aug 22, 2001
Developer:
- Fireglow
Publisher: cdv Software
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