So it's good news that Red Orchestra is finally getting a sequel. On some servers, the allure of World War II never quite faded. Meanwhile, its heart-in-mouth combat and dedication to the real soldier's experience truly made you feel like an active participant in a rubble-strewn nightmare. Its obsession with realism and focus on the less trendy Eastern front kept it different and engaging. On the PC, however, one plucky multiplayer shooter never lost its sheen. As the weariness set in, clunking gears were set in motion that led to today's inevitable and almost universal - switch to modern-day combat. Personally, though, I'm looking back a mere six years to when, statistically, over 60 per cent of shooters involved killing Nazis in the same field of a crepe-heavy region of France.īack then the world was beginning to tire of World War II, fed up of the endless orders to defend farmhouses with machine gun nests. To be fair, she's more concerned with the fact her nation was in mortal danger (alongside who in the village had it away with an American airman, and the banana shortage), so she's probably got justification. You'd think my gran might feel differently, yet that doesn't stop her banging on about it. Don't know about you, but I'm starting to miss World War II.

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