Sudden Strike 2 (Windows)

by CDV Software Entertainment

Product Features

• Choose from 50 different playable units and engage the enemy in 40 missions
• Travel throughout Japan in historically-accurate maps and levels, during five campaigns
• You can capture and take command of boats and planes in different scenarios for added levels of strategy
• New order options and a new morale system add to the gameplay
• Variable weather patterns add a new level of challenge to your gaming -- learn to adapt to wartime conditions in the rain and snow, or you're toast

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00007BGQJ
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 17, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,102 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Sudden strike 2: The whole world is nothing but a battlefield. And you are on the front line - in the very center of realistic battle action, which even amazes and delights the shrewdest strategy experts. As the commander of German, Russian, British, American and, finally, Japanese troops, you fight on water and on land as well as in the air. You can extend your actions through numerous specific commands in remarkable ways. The four different available difficulty levels and the fascinating multiplayer mode are thrilling beyond imagination. The user-friendly editor allows for unlimited supplies of professionally generated maps and missions - making sure the action never ends

Product Description

Put yourself front-and-center for the World War II experience with this incredible shooter! / Rated T: Teen

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars LIKE A CARTOON, December 31, 2002

By 

Colonnata "Colonnata" (FIRENZE Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sudden Strike 2 (Windows) (CD-ROM)

This game is fun. Tanks and all sort of vehicles are well reproduced and sound real. Airplanes drop off paratroopers and boats land with marines like in a movie. Soldiers look maybe too small. They fight and die like little ants in a splatter cartoon. The idea of using enemy's stuff like guns and jeeps is great and adds a special "something". The scenarios are well conceived and maps are a joy for the eyes. But the longevity of the game looks to me pretty short. It is true that the editor gives you the possibility of designing new scenarios, but...don't get confused: the editor is not so friendly as they say and the several scenarios you can download from the net are difficult to understand unless you speak german. After all I find it better than Close Combat, because it's 3D, because tanks sound so real, because all vehicles and maps look so good. The IA is not too challenging though and you may prefer to fight in the multi-player option. SSII is fun but the best is yet to come. You may prefer to wait for an Age of Empire "The rise and fall of the III Reich" edition.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sudden strike 2, Don't buy it, October 2, 2004

By 

Trung Minh Ho (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sudden Strike 2 (Windows) (CD-ROM)

I do agree that Sudden Strike and Sudden Strike Forever are very hard games. But I do like them both. Once you got a hold of the game, it's fun. However, Sudden Strike 2 is a mess.
Well, first of all, the sound effect is not as good as Sudden Strike or Sudden Strike Forever. It sounds strange, not nearly a sound of battle.
They did change the level of diffulty from almost impossible to manageable, but players now have to worry about other tedious details. For example, a new control enable the player to move the tanks and the infantry at the same speed and there by eliminate the frustrating situation where the tanks out-run the infantry and get killed. However, say the player's tanks shoot and kill the enemy tanks, they are burning up into flames and the palyer's infantry just go bindly into those flames and get themselves killed.
Loading troops into boats and airplanes is frustrating, so is unload. The troops just won't get into the boats or the airplanes unless either the boats or the airplanes being oriented in the 'right' directions which depend on the terrains.
Great care must be taken before ordering an airplane to take off, for it will plow into a group of infantry and kill all those who are in its way. The number can be of hundreds. The airplanes are said to be controllable by players. That's not true. It's possible to set the waypoints that the airplanes should take, which adds tedious works.
Also players now have to manage all vehicle crew including not letting them got killed and assign them to vehicles, including heavy armored tanks, whose crews have been killed by enemy's rifle men.......many other bad things
Anyway, if you are someone like me who only have a couple of hours to play a week, you are not gonna enjoy it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great strategy game, specially if youre a world war 2 fan!!!, August 3, 2004

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A. Trucco - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sudden Strike 2 (Windows) (CD-ROM)

I am really into strategy games, I used to love playing Age of Empires and Star Craft. However, Im a huge world war 2 fan and i had never heard of a WW2 strategy game. When I found I totally fell in love with it. It is a different game compared to most strategy games out there, including the ones i mentioned above, but different in more interesting way. For one, in Sudden Strike you can't make troops, youre supplied with them, when you need them. However there is a limit to the number of troops you can get which is what makes it real. The variety of troops is huge, with riflemen, submachine gunners, machine gunners, officers, anti tank personnel, etc. Theres also a big varity of tanks and armored vehicles.You can call for air support: you can call bombers, paratroopers if your running low on men, or for supplies. There is also all diff. types of artillery: field guns, short range, long range artillery, anti tank guns, anti aircraft guns, etc. When it comes to infantry, the diff. types of things they have are: experience, health, morale(new to SS2), primary ammo, and secondary ammo. The more experience they have, the more accurate they shoot both with their guns or when in artillery guns. The higher the morale, the better they fight in battle. Having officers around your troops helps to keep morale higher. When it comes to supplies, it is the "supply trucks" that contain supplies. When they fix tanks, the supply number gets lower, or when they make anti tank obstacles or barbed wire. They also provide the ammo for the troops, tanks, artillery, etc. Supplies are obtained from brown and silver boxes. Brown boxes contain "ammo" while silver boxes contain "parts"....The things i mentioned here make up only about 40 percent of the game, there is a lot more to it. I hope this review has been helpful to everyone.