![]() This framing device, the missions themselves and some of the single player game mechanics lean too heavily on the “endless Red Army soldiers tossed under vehicle treads by cold-hearted officers” end the narrative scale, with nary a hint of the period of Soviet tank mobility. The pair conduct a sort of ongoing Socratic dialogue, with Isakovich disgusted at the disregard he saw for Soviet lives during wartime and his officer arguing for the ends justifying the means. ![]() This is all portrayed in curiously antiquated cut-scenes featuring a Gulag-consigned Lev Abramovich Isakovich (very loosely based on real-life war reporter Vasily Grossman) and his visiting former commander. Single player hits almost all of the expected historical beats of the Eastern Front: Operation Barbarossa, Stalingrad, the lifting of the siege at Leningrad, Soviet counter-attacks through Poland and the Red Army’s march into Berlin. ![]()
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