If you new to the series you might find single players isn't that bad however it isn't that great. If you are Sudden Strikes series fan prepare to get disappoint. Maps do not provide feeling of large or strategic battles like it was in SS1 or SS2. Gameplay isn't as hardcore as it was and more of the tank rush. Overall even disappointing Blitzkrieg 3 can offer better single player and at cheaper price tag. Multiplayer is where things got really bad. As if work on it were given to few interns that never played PC RTS, so they designing it for people with disabilities, here would be good place to put PS4 joke, but it's so bad that even calling it console RTS is insulting to PS4. So yeah people who were working on it probably never played anything pass mobile games. Only way that multiplayer got thru is because leads of those interns were too busy spending money that they got from preorders on women and medicine powder. Server browser UI usability is worse I have seen for a long time. It's just basic list of host names locked behind regions, FFS we don't want regions, we want to see ping and not only host ping but other players ping, no one wants to play with lag. What worse it doesn't tell you which map is hosted, how many players in lobby and there is no global chat. All there is host name. There is only FIVE maps one of which comes only with pre order. Map design similar to mobile MOBA games. Even in comparison to single player maps, those MP maps are just symmetrical simple pile of laziness where DoW3 maps look like masterpiece. Unit versatility in multiplayer doesn't exist. There is -Medium Tank, like most generic T-34/76, M4A4 Sherman and Pz4 G. You wont see any other medium tanks in multiplayer. -Light Vehicle which basically scout unit -Half-track with Infantry squad which is completely useless since everything else is armor and they don't have any weapons to deal with it. And for scouting it's cheaper to use scout plane. But wait those interns had "brilliant idea" to block some portions of map where only infantry can get to fight with their sticks. SPG AA truck mainly used to murder infantry Repair and Resupply track that do to casual nature of game are completely worthless. One of them is more than enough for team, but too bad you aren't able to share them making them completely not cost effective and waste. And based on your doctrine you get one additional unit which can be Heavy Tank, Heavy Tank Destroyer or Half-track with infantry that finally have one anti tank weapon, but you rather have tank for it price. Is this WW2 RTS or some Clash of "Insert Name" for phone? Even CoH2 unit options blow this game out. When here we talking about Sudden Strike that should be providing unit park as big as games like Men of War. Is one medium tank per faction all they were able to make? Where is anti tank guns? Where are all tank destroyer options? Where better infantry options? If you thinking Blitzkrieg 3 skirmish gameplay is bad, well Sudden Strike 4 going to amaze you even more on how developers can fail. Visuals Visually game isn't really standing out. Environment and vehicle visuals aren't bad, infantry models on other hand are done very cheaply. Performance I didn't experienced FPS drops, what I did get instead is lag even when playing skirmish vs AI in single player as if it was multiplayer game against someone with 700 ping with sometimes it being completely stuck in the lag with only possible way to finish game is quit. Overall I can't call this game Sudden Strike, it's name used there only for false advertisement for cheap money grab.
I want more of it
