IS IT WORTH IT?! | A Review of Easy Red 2 in About 3 Minutes!

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Published on February 26, 2023 5:57:20 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8wUclsEKs0

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Easy Red 2 (2020)

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Hello and welcome to the return of the 3 minute game review! A series of short but detailed game reviews where I talk REALLY fast and try to cram in as much relevant information as possible to help YOU decide whether or not the game is worth your time and money in about 3 minutes…

Game: Easy Red 2
Category: WW2 Shooter / Simulator
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324780/Easy_Red_2/

In today’s video we’re taking a look at an ambitious WW2 indie shooter called Easy Red 2 by Corvos Studio, a game developed by just 1 man that has improved immensely since I first reviewed it over a year ago.

Some if not all of the clips you see in this video are recorded using a custom ReShade filter to add a more gritty, Band of Brothers style appearance to the game, and I’ll include a link and install instructions in the video description if you want to get the same look. This video is not sponsored, endorsed or promoted in any way and all opinions expressed are my own. So with all that said and done, let’s get into it!

So Easy Red 2 is a realistic first and third person shooter set in the second world war with support for singleplayer, multiplayer and co op gameplay together with reasonably challenging bots, dynamic building destruction and an impressive arsenal of weapons, vehicles and aircraft to play around with. Basically any weapons, vehicles or stationary defenses you see in the world can be player controlled.

It supports 100 players running around in large, open maps covering basically all major fronts of the second world war including the pacific, the eastern front, western Europe and the Mediterranean but in the online PvP and co-op modes the actual amount of real players you can have is capped at 20, with the other 80 slots being filled out by AI controlled bots.

You can also play as a squad leader and take control of the AI controlled bots by issuing simple move, attack and ability call-in commands either as infantry or together in a vehicle.

Battles take place on campaign-like maps with multiple different attack and defense objectives that force attackers to advance deeper and defenders to fall back each time a new set of objectives is captured, and you can play each mission as either the allies or axis, with the available factions decided by whatever map you’re fighting on.

Once you complete a mission you unlock the next one that was previously locked. Overall there’s about 25 missions in the base game and a further 9 in the optional Stalingrad DLC, with each mission taking around 20 minutes to complete. It’s also got a built-in map editor and Steam Workshop support which add some longevity to the game.

It’s difficult not to compare it to a modern day version of Battlefield 1942 in everything from the way it looks and how it feels to play, right down to the way the soldiers run around shouting and screaming. It’s even got that same old school jankiness to it that you’ll either love or hate.

For me the most important element to a first person shooter is the weapon handling. You want your shots to go where you’re aiming, and in a game like this it doesn’t hurt to give it a good dose of realism as well, and I think it does a pretty okay job, but it’s not perfect.

I felt like my bullets were going where I was aiming with a manageable recoil system in place that differs from gun to gun, though it feels like it uses some sort of mouse acceleration that can’t be turned off that did make it tricky to do persistently good shots, and that’s no doubt a bi-product of its built in support for gamepads, but I didn’t feel like it was enough of a problem to take away from the otherwise fun experience once I just accepted it.

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