The fact that combatants don't have to muck about with building factories, training troops and the like means that every game is steeped in strategy and hard thinking from the outset. We did try playing it on a laptop using the infra-red modem on a 28.8K WAP phone as our on-ramp to the Internet, but after a couple of dropped carriers and a lot of MESSAGES IN CAPITALS from increasingly narked adversaries, we decided it was probably a bit silly and gave it a miss.Īs a game, Sudden Strike really does lend itself to playing against other people.
The very nature of RTS means that the odd dropped packet, lag spike or connection glitch does not affect the flow of gameplay: tanks keep rolling, troops keep moving, and unless something serious goes wrong, you could be forgiven for thinking that every online opponent was hardwired in to the back of your machine. If you're used to playing arcade shooters such as Counter-Strike or Unreal Tournament, where the data transfer rates are much higher, get ready for arenas where low latency is no longer king. Keep On MovingĪside from a rather limited number of multiplayer options, Sudden Strike plays well over any Internet connection, from a 33.6K modem upwards. If you've not yet bought the box, or have yet to free it from its Christmas wrapping, make sure you install the patch before you run the game, and then go grab yourself a copy of server seeker GameSpy. You can get to the action direct from your desktop without having to do any mucking about from within the game itself. This means that there's now a master server holding information on all SS sessions around the globe, and so joining them has become a point-and-click dream. If you already own a copy of the game, you'll be glad to hear that this latest update beefs up the multiplayer side of things by including support for GameSpy. Yet Sudden Strike continues to gain popularity both here and in the Fatherland, where its Karlsruhe based publisher has recently released a much awaited patch, available to existing users as a 2Mb download. You'd have thought that losing a couple of world wars would dampen their enthusiasm for a real-time strategy game involving Panzerfaust gunners, Nazi officers, Sturmtiger assault cannons and V-1 doodlebugs, especially when the name of the game in question is often shortened to SS.
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