Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad Game of the Year Edition is giving you a taste of it’s action packed FPS doings this weekend, December 14th 2012 – December 16th 2012, as you can try it for free on Steam. Also in celebration of this momentous event you’ll be earning Double XP and if you like what you’re playing you can pick up the complete package for 75% off this weekend as well. Head past the jump to see some of the gritty World War 2 explosive action in the Fall 2012 Trailer below.
Source Link: YouTube | Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad – GOTY on Steam
PRESS RELEASE
13 December 2012, Roswell, GA
Everyone will get to play Red Orchestra 2 multi-player completely free on Steam from today through Monday 17 December, to celebrate the release of the Fall 2012 Content Pack. Now you can try the game, plus all the content added in the Game of the Year and Fall 2012 Content Packs, which are completely free to everyone who owns the game. Not only is the game free this weekend, but if you decide to pick it up before Monday we’re selling it at 75% off! There is also a trailer (http://www.youtube.com/user/tripwireinteractive) to showcase the new content added in the free Fall 2012 Content Pack including the new map Barashka.
In case you’ve forgotten the Fall 2012 Content Pack is, of course, free to everyone who already owns the game and includes:
- Barashka, the new map, which is a re-imagining and re-working of an old favorite from the original Red Orchestra. This brings in combined arms combat, villages, bridges and a river crossing to fight for. The map features both Territory and Countdown game modes.
- Simplified and improved match flow and user interface for the Countdown game mode, which will make it much simpler to understand, making for much more instant and direct battles. Just to encourage everyone to try out the changes, we’ll be issuing Double XP towards your Honor from today in Countdown mode!
Of course, there are a host of other updates to the game. These include requests from the community, such as walk while actively firing machine guns from the hip; increased stamina pool in Classic; chat system refinements and more.
So don’t miss out, the free weekend is on now! Grab the game from Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/35450/) and don’t forget and tell your friends.
You can check out the new trailer on our Youtube channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/tripwireinteractive
About Tripwire Interactive
Based in Roswell, Georgia, Tripwire Interactive is an entertainment software developer and publisher founded in 2005 by the award-winning mod team and winners of the 2004 edition of the “$1,000,000 Make Something Unreal” competition. The team released Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45, to both critical and commercial success, garnering several awards including “Multiplayer Game of the Year” and “FPS of the Year”. This was followed by the immensely popular Killing Floor, which went straight to the top of the best-seller list on Steam and has now sold over 1.5m units, making it one of the best-selling PC games of all time. Red Orchestra 2 was released in September 2011, to high praise and PC Gamer’s award for “FPS of the Year (Multiplayer)”. Along with publishing other Indie titles, Tripwire Interactive continues to build a reputation for strong support for all their titles over a prolonged period of time. For more information visit Tripwire Interactive’s website at www.tripwireinteractive.com.
