Featuring airborne parachute drops and late war German and Allied tanks Darkest Hour brings an all new style of gameplay to Red Orchestra. A trailer is available on Steam along with screenshots and other information on the Mod’s Steam page. Now you can play as American, British or Canadian troops, with a huge range of additional features:
• More than 20 new infantry weapons, such as the ever-distinctive Garand, M1 Carbine, .30-cal, Bren, FG42, Thomson and the Enfield rifles
• American Bazooka, British PIAT and German Panzerschreck to go tank-hunting with
• New infantry features, including Airborne drops onto the battlefield, bullet suppression and supersonic cracks, plus a new radioman class for calling in artillery strikes
• Over a dozen new crewable vehicles including the King Tiger and JagdPanther for the Germans, countered with multiple types of Sherman in 75mm, 76mm and 17-pounder versions, plus the Cromwell, M10 Wolverine and Achilles
• 11 new maps, including:
- Juno Beach – Canadians storming the beaches in classic D-Day action
- Carentan – the US 101st Airborne assaults the town shortly after D-Day
- Brecourt – 101st Airborne attempt to put a key German artillery battery out of commission behind the beaches
- Ginkel Heath – British paras drop into a hotly-contested LZ at the start of Operation Market-Garden
- Wacht-am-Rhein – sweeping tank combat during the Battle of the Bulge, including the fearsome King Tiger
- Stoumont – American infantry and armor try and hold back the SS PanzerGrenadiers in the streets of the Ardennes town
So whether it is the Normandy campaign, para-jumping onto the dropzones around Arnhem or the bitter fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, new and old players alike will get a chance to see why RO remains a classic. Now with the opportunity to re-play those battles RO-style, courtesy of Darkest Hour: Europe 1944-45! For more information on the mod (and to see the trailer) head for the Steam page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/1280/.
And, just to ensure that everyone gets a chance to see Red Orchestra on the Western Front, we are dropping the price of RO on Steam to $4.99 right through until the end of the weekend (Sunday 14th June).
For the full details and history of the mod, head for their own web page: http://www.darkesthourgame.com