BETTER OFF RED
A grandiose rendering of World War II’s Eastern Front, Steel Division 2 details Operation Bagration, the Red Army’s back-breaking push against the Nazi war machine. It’s an ambitious real-time strategy game, and though it ultimately fails to live up to a lot of that ambition – especially with its singleplayer campaign – the vastness of its battles captures the scale of total war with lavish detail.
Operation Bagration was the June to August 1944 offensive that threw a huge number of the Soviet army’s best troops against the German army in occupied Belarus and Poland. At the same time as the Normandy invasion thousands of kilometres away, the Soviet army surrounded and crushed Germany’s Army Group Centre, signalling the end for Germany in the east.
It’s warfare at a scale that inspires awe when you watch a replay
The combatant divisions of troops in this game are weary veterans who have been at war for three years, many equipped with some
