With 47 different missions and a good replayability thanks to the different doctrines and challenge modes (which let you replay the missions with some hard, mission-specific limitations), Sudden Strike 4: Complete Collection’s singleplayer mode can easily hook the player up for more than 50 hours, or even more for completionists.Īfter the campaigns, there are still skirmish and multiplayer. The complete version of the game brings the player to all main war fronts, while also covering smaller battles. In this DLC, the vegetation is very dense and perfect to hide the infantry. The number of units in the game jumps up by 51 (51!), also thanks to flame throwers, amphibious vehicles and large ships for naval combat. Naval combat is now a thing, Japanese got added to the game and missions are not only really good but also quite numerous (ten, five for each faction). This got already reviewed in the past on SaveOrQuit, and you can find the review here. “The Pacific War” is hands down the most complete and fun DLC. Africa: Desert War mixes greatly open-field operations with urban fights and the use of air support. Missions here are quite good, mixing open-field desert operations with urban fights and requiring a good amount of tactical reasoning, especially when it comes to air support. Besides, all Italian troops have a voiceover that, to my surprise, doesn’t sound ridiculous. Italy has all-new cannons, trucks and tanks.
Like in “Finland: Winter Storm” the DLC delivers two additional mini-campaigns with three missions each, plus new troops, vehicles and a whole new faction: Italy. The third DLC is settled in North Africa, within the fights between the Axis (Germans and, for the first time, Italians) and the Allies. Soviet heavy and medium tanks attacking the first layer of the Finnish’s defenses Barren lands What really got me though are the special vehicles, like the armored aerosled, of which I was not even aware of the existence. The missions are really good, especially if compared with those of the previous DLC, and have nice returning mechanics like ice terrain (that can be destroyed by explosives, sinking the vehicles on top of it) and mud-terrain (that can and will get vehicles stuck). This DLC introduces six new missions (three per faction) as well as new vehicles, like the Soviet KV-1 heavy tank or the Flak 36.
Here Soviet units fight the Finnish troops in the cold wheater of Finland. “Finland: Winter Storm” brings the player in quite an unusual territory for a WWII videogame. German Panzer IV tanks assaulting the city of Ypres The Cold War Still, it’s nice to be able to play such an iconic battle of WWII.
“Road to Dunkirk” is the weakest add-on for this game, with its four missions playing in already-seen environments and the handful of units additions. As the name suggests, the story follows the events that brought to the siege of Dunkirk, this in two missions for each faction: the Germans against the Allies, where the first one attacks and the latter defends. “Road to Dunkirk” was the first DLC to be added to the base game.