Japanese soldiers will make the emblematic "banzai" scream when they're charging against the enemies. You can make bayonet charges, and of course, these ones are really euphoric and satisfying. A very well designed progession system, each class and weapon has its own leveling system and leveling up will unlock more weapons and attachments. You can choose between a good selection of designated roles, like marksman, rifleman, assault, anti-tank, team leader or even commander, which is the responsible of providing artillery coverage, co-ordinate his platoon and call in reconnaissance planes. A wide variety of weapons, the Rising Storm addon even adds more weapons, including a flamethrower and a katana!. Besides that each player can take one of the roles of a real tank squad, the driver can open the hatches to have a better view, the gunner has a reload animation for the tank cannon and machine gun and the commander can guide the crew and guard for possible threats. 
As said before, the vehicles have an awesome attention to the detail. There are tanks and another kind of vehicles like semi-trucks that will add a lot of immersion to the game. Japanese soldiers will actually speak japanese, which is a great detail. Fascinating and realistic voice acting, you can really feel the emotion in the soldier screams or the paint in the death sounds. A good soundtrack that will vary depending on the state of the battle. Unlike most of the nowadays FPS games, getting shot will lead to bleed and you will need to use a bandage to stop it. 
It features a lot of attention to the detail, you can zero your weapon sights and scopes with visible effects, vehicles have very well detailed interiors, supressing fire will make you enter in panic and some weapons can dismember the soldiers, like the AT rifles. Amazing and very well detailed graphics even for today standards. 
Even better, the game has a realistic mode that will turn off the friendly names, kill confirmations and the radar.
The gameplay mixes very well the arcade and military simulation modes: while you still have the common fps elements (visible hud, sprint and life bar) and pacing, one or two bullets will be enough to kill you, you need to check manually how much bullets do you have left and there is a "fear" bar that, if it is filled completely, your vision and hearing will get blurrier and your aiming will get worse, also, you will need to have a good communication with your team if you want to win. The game makes a great job portraying the horrors of the second world war. NOTE: This page will mainly focus on Red Orchestra 2, but Rising Storm also shares some of the good qualities
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