Success, does not come cheaply, and you'll have to use your units very sparingly, as you won't get any more unless you're fortunate enough to receive reinforcements. Instead, Sudden Strike 2 is all about tactics, deep strategic planning, slow, deliberate progress - and above all, intelligence and patience. The gameplay is still devoid of any building or resource balancing, alienating it instantly from the likes of C&C, which take a broader and less 'intense' approach by covering more elements, in simpler detail. This objective it achieves with some style. Moreover, the game hasn't compromised one iota from its original intentions, to be the most historically and tactically realistic real-time strategy enactment of WWII. True, the game's five separate (and rather large) campaign's do now have easier difficulty settings, but Sudden Strike 2 is by no means a forgiving game, and fans of other real-time strategy titles still aren't likely to find it an approachable experience. Fans of the original will be pleased to hear that not a lot's changed, either, with Sudden Strike 2 being grittier, more realistic and just as uncompromisingly cunning as ever.

Sudden Strike 2, approaches the genre from the other end of the spectrum however, picking up in the vein left off by the original Sudden Strike, a good seller for CDV a couple of years ago. Ever since Eidos' smash-hit Commandos first shook the monitor of many PC gamers, an increasingly large number of publishers have begun to note the public's fascination with the events of World War 2 sparked by films such as Saving Private Ryan, and enthused further by gritty interactive editions like Medal of Honor, most recently.

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